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The [[Moslems]] are correct in insisting that there is no brokerage between them and the [[Heavenly Father]]. It is one of the [[strengths]] of their religion and, frankly, is a weakness of the organized [[Christian]] religions. [[The Master]], [[Jesus]], always taught against an entrenched [[priesthood]] and yet most of the [[Western]] [[Christian]] religions are, to a greater or lesser [[degree]], subject to the [[interferences]] of the professional [[priests]]. This is the [[quality]] that recommends [[Islam]] by [[comparison]]. They are utterly right yet just as once you were a girl, and in the [[natural]] course of [[things]], you became a young [[woman]], a [[wife]], a young [[mother]] and a grandmother. So, too, must each [[human]] pass through the [[necessary]] and natural [[Stages|steps]]. [[Spirit advancement]] to pass by the [[Michael]] is but one of those natural [[consequences]]. That is the [[path]]. If people insist that there is no path, they are welcome to insist it. It does not matter what they insist. We say that it is so. It does not matter whether they dispute it or not. They are saying that [[God]] will be bound by their [[interpretation]] of God and it simply will not be so. [[Michael]] is not a limitation upon that [[progress]]. Michael is the [[facilitator]] of that [[progress]]. It is purely human [[ego]] to insist that the [[teacher]] is a burden upon the [[student]]. They are welcome to contend that if it is [[necessary]] for their continued [[progress]]. We welcome their insistence. We are not constructing the world, we are merely attempting to [[describe]] it for those who seek a better [[understanding]]. Do not dispute their contention. Does that answer it?

The [[Moslems]] are correct in insisting that there is no brokerage between them and the [[Heavenly Father]]. It is one of the [[strengths]] of their religion and, frankly, is a weakness of the organized [[Christian]] religions. [[The Master]], [[Jesus]], always taught against an entrenched [[priesthood]] and yet most of the [[Western]] [[Christian]] religions are, to a greater or lesser [[degree]], subject to the [[interferences]] of the professional [[priests]]. This is the [[quality]] that recommends [[Islam]] by [[comparison]]. They are utterly right yet just as once you were a girl, and in the [[natural]] course of [[things]], you became a young [[woman]], a [[wife]], a young [[mother]] and a grandmother. So, too, must each [[human]] pass through the [[necessary]] and natural [[Stages|steps]]. [[Spirit advancement]] to pass by the [[Michael]] is but one of those natural [[consequences]]. That is the [[path]]. If people insist that there is no path, they are welcome to insist it. It does not matter what they insist. We say that it is so. It does not matter whether they dispute it or not. They are saying that [[God]] will be bound by their [[interpretation]] of God and it simply will not be so. [[Michael]] is not a limitation upon that [[progress]]. Michael is the [[facilitator]] of that [[progress]]. It is purely human [[ego]] to insist that the [[teacher]] is a burden upon the [[student]]. They are welcome to contend that if it is [[necessary]] for their continued [[progress]]. We welcome their insistence. We are not constructing the world, we are merely attempting to [[describe]] it for those who seek a better [[understanding]]. Do not dispute their contention. Does that answer it?

 

PAT: Yes, thank you. Let me ask another one. The Bible is given credibility as a document that has been inspired by God. Mohammed said that the Koran was inspired by God. Was the Urantia Book inspired in the same sense?

PAT: Yes, thank you. Let me ask another one. The [[Bible]] is given credibility as a [[document]] that has been [[inspired]] by [[God]]. [[Mohammed]] said that the [[Koran]] was inspired by [[God]]. Was the [[Urantia Book]] [[101:4 The Limitations of Revelation|inspired]] in the same sense?

WILL: Yes.

WILL: Yes.