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76:5.1 Not long after the [[establishment]] of the ''second Eden'', [[Adam and Eve]] were duly informed that their [[repentance]] was [[acceptable]], and that, while they were [[doomed]] to [[suffer]] the [[fate]] of the [[mortals]] of their world, they should certainly become eligible for admission to the ranks of the [[sleeping survivors]] of [[Urantia]]. They fully believed this [[gospel]] of [[resurrection]] and [[rehabilitation]] which the [[Melchizedeks]] so touchingly proclaimed to them. Their transgression had been an [[error]] of [[judgment]] and not the [[sin]] of [[conscious]] and [[deliberate]] [[rebellion]].
76:5.2 [[Adam and Eve]] did not, as [[citizens]] of [[Jerusem]], have [[Thought Adjusters]], nor were they Adjuster indwelt when they functioned on [[Urantia]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. But shortly after their reduction to [[mortal]] [[status]] they became [[conscious]] of a new [[presence]] within them and [[awakened]] to the [[realization]] that [[human]] [[status]] coupled with [[sincere]] [[repentance]] had made it possible for [[Adjusters]] to indwell them. It was this [[knowledge]] of being [[Adjuster]] indwelt that greatly [[Encourage|heartened]] [[Adam and Eve]] throughout the remainder of their lives; they knew that they had failed as [[Material Sons]] of [[Satania]], but they also knew that the [[Paradise career]] was still open to them as [[ascending sons]] of the [[universe]].
76:5.3 [[Adam]] knew about the [[dispensation]]al [[resurrection]] which occurred [[simultaneously]] with his arrival on the [[planet]] and he believed that he and his companion would probably be [[repersonalized]] in connection with the [[advent]] of the next order of sonship. He did not know that [[Michael]], the [[sovereign]] of this [[universe]], was so soon to appear on [[Urantia]]; he expected that the next Son to arrive would be of the [[Avonal]] order. Even so, it was always a comfort to [[Adam and Eve]], as well as something [[difficult]] for them to [[understand]], to [[ponder]] the only [[personal]] [[message]] they ever received from [[Michael]]. This message, among other [[expressions]] of [[friendship]] and [[comfort]], said: "I have given [[consideration]] to the circumstances of your [[default]], I have [[remembered]] the [[desire]] of your [[hearts]] ever to be [[loyal]] to my [[Universal Father|Father]]'s will, and you will be called from the [[embrace]] of [[mortal]] [[slumber]] when I come to [[Urantia]] if the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20 subordinate Sons] of my realm do not send for you before that [[time]]."
76:5.4 And this was a great [[mystery]] to [[Adam and Eve]]. They could [[comprehend]] the veiled [[promise]] of a possible special [[resurrection]] in this [[message]], and such a possibility greatly [[cheered]] them, but they could not grasp the [[meaning]] of the intimation that they might [[rest]] until the time of a [[resurrection]] associated with [[Michael]]'s [[personal]] appearance on [[Urantia]]. And so the Edenic pair always proclaimed that a Son of God would sometime come, and they [[communicated]] to their loved ones the [[belief]], at least the longing [[hope]], that the world of their blunders and sorrows might possibly be the realm whereon the [[Creator Son|ruler of this universe]] would [[elect]] to [[function]] as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD Paradise bestowal Son]. It seemed too [[good]] to be [[true]], but [[Adam]] did entertain the [[thought]] that strife-torn [[Urantia]] might, after all, turn out to be the most fortunate world in [[the system]] of [[Satania]], the [[envied]] [[planet]] of all [[Nebadon]].
76:5.5 [[Adam]] lived for 530 years; he died of what might be termed old age. His [[physical]] [[mechanism]] simply wore out; the [[process]] of disintegration [[gradually]] gained on the [[process]] of repair, and the [[inevitable]] end came. [[Eve]] had died nineteen years previously of a weakened [[heart]]. They were both [[buried]] in the [[center]] of the [[temple]] of [[divine]] [[service]] which had been built in [[accordance]] with their [[plans]] soon after the wall of the colony had been completed. And this was the [[origin]] of the [[practice]] of [[burying]] noted and [[pious]] men and women under the floors of the places of [[worship]].
76:5.6 The supermaterial [[government]] of [[Urantia]], under the direction of the [[Melchizedeks]], continued, but direct [[physical]] [[contact]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] had been severed. From the distant days of the arrival of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]], down through the times of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] to the arrival of [[Adam and Eve]], [[physical]] [[representatives]] of the [[universe]] [[government]] had been stationed on the [[planet]]. But with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default] this [[regime]], extending over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years, came to an end. In the [[spiritual]] [[spheres]], [[angelic helpers]] continued to [[struggle]] in conjunction with the [[Thought Adjusters]], both working [[heroically]] for the salvage of the [[individual]]; but no comprehensive [[plan]] for far-reaching world [[welfare]] was promulgated to the [[mortals]] of [[earth]] until the arrival of [[Machiventa Melchizedek]], in the times of [[Abraham]], who, with the [[power]], [[patience]], and [[authority]] of a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD Son of God], did lay the [[foundations]] for the further uplift and [[spiritual]] [[rehabilitation]] of unfortunate [[Urantia]].
76:5.7 Misfortune has not, however, been the sole lot of [[Urantia]]; this [[planet]] has also been the most fortunate in the [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. Urantians should count it all gain if the blunders of their [[ancestors]] and the mistakes of their early world rulers so plunged the [[planet]] into such a hopeless [[state]] of [[confusion]], all the more confounded by [[evil]] and [[sin]], that this very background of [[darkness]] should so [[appeal]] to [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] that he selected this world as the arena wherein to [[reveal]] the [[loving]] [[personality]] of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]]. It is not that [[Urantia]] needed a [[Creator Son]] to set its tangled affairs in order; it is rather that the [[evil]] and [[sin]] on [[Urantia]] afforded the [[Creator Son]] a more striking background against which to [[reveal]] the matchless [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[patience]] of the [[Paradise Father]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 Go to Paper 76]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 76 - The Second Garden]]
76:5.1 Not long after the [[establishment]] of the ''second Eden'', [[Adam and Eve]] were duly informed that their [[repentance]] was [[acceptable]], and that, while they were [[doomed]] to [[suffer]] the [[fate]] of the [[mortals]] of their world, they should certainly become eligible for admission to the ranks of the [[sleeping survivors]] of [[Urantia]]. They fully believed this [[gospel]] of [[resurrection]] and [[rehabilitation]] which the [[Melchizedeks]] so touchingly proclaimed to them. Their transgression had been an [[error]] of [[judgment]] and not the [[sin]] of [[conscious]] and [[deliberate]] [[rebellion]].
76:5.2 [[Adam and Eve]] did not, as [[citizens]] of [[Jerusem]], have [[Thought Adjusters]], nor were they Adjuster indwelt when they functioned on [[Urantia]] in the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first garden]. But shortly after their reduction to [[mortal]] [[status]] they became [[conscious]] of a new [[presence]] within them and [[awakened]] to the [[realization]] that [[human]] [[status]] coupled with [[sincere]] [[repentance]] had made it possible for [[Adjusters]] to indwell them. It was this [[knowledge]] of being [[Adjuster]] indwelt that greatly [[Encourage|heartened]] [[Adam and Eve]] throughout the remainder of their lives; they knew that they had failed as [[Material Sons]] of [[Satania]], but they also knew that the [[Paradise career]] was still open to them as [[ascending sons]] of the [[universe]].
76:5.3 [[Adam]] knew about the [[dispensation]]al [[resurrection]] which occurred [[simultaneously]] with his arrival on the [[planet]] and he believed that he and his companion would probably be [[repersonalized]] in connection with the [[advent]] of the next order of sonship. He did not know that [[Michael]], the [[sovereign]] of this [[universe]], was so soon to appear on [[Urantia]]; he expected that the next Son to arrive would be of the [[Avonal]] order. Even so, it was always a comfort to [[Adam and Eve]], as well as something [[difficult]] for them to [[understand]], to [[ponder]] the only [[personal]] [[message]] they ever received from [[Michael]]. This message, among other [[expressions]] of [[friendship]] and [[comfort]], said: "I have given [[consideration]] to the circumstances of your [[default]], I have [[remembered]] the [[desire]] of your [[hearts]] ever to be [[loyal]] to my [[Universal Father|Father]]'s will, and you will be called from the [[embrace]] of [[mortal]] [[slumber]] when I come to [[Urantia]] if the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20 subordinate Sons] of my realm do not send for you before that [[time]]."
76:5.4 And this was a great [[mystery]] to [[Adam and Eve]]. They could [[comprehend]] the veiled [[promise]] of a possible special [[resurrection]] in this [[message]], and such a possibility greatly [[cheered]] them, but they could not grasp the [[meaning]] of the intimation that they might [[rest]] until the time of a [[resurrection]] associated with [[Michael]]'s [[personal]] appearance on [[Urantia]]. And so the Edenic pair always proclaimed that a Son of God would sometime come, and they [[communicated]] to their loved ones the [[belief]], at least the longing [[hope]], that the world of their blunders and sorrows might possibly be the realm whereon the [[Creator Son|ruler of this universe]] would [[elect]] to [[function]] as the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD Paradise bestowal Son]. It seemed too [[good]] to be [[true]], but [[Adam]] did entertain the [[thought]] that strife-torn [[Urantia]] might, after all, turn out to be the most fortunate world in [[the system]] of [[Satania]], the [[envied]] [[planet]] of all [[Nebadon]].
76:5.5 [[Adam]] lived for 530 years; he died of what might be termed old age. His [[physical]] [[mechanism]] simply wore out; the [[process]] of disintegration [[gradually]] gained on the [[process]] of repair, and the [[inevitable]] end came. [[Eve]] had died nineteen years previously of a weakened [[heart]]. They were both [[buried]] in the [[center]] of the [[temple]] of [[divine]] [[service]] which had been built in [[accordance]] with their [[plans]] soon after the wall of the colony had been completed. And this was the [[origin]] of the [[practice]] of [[burying]] noted and [[pious]] men and women under the floors of the places of [[worship]].
76:5.6 The supermaterial [[government]] of [[Urantia]], under the direction of the [[Melchizedeks]], continued, but direct [[physical]] [[contact]] with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary races] had been severed. From the distant days of the arrival of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF corporeal staff] of the [[Planetary Prince]], down through the times of [[Van]] and [[Amadon]] to the arrival of [[Adam and Eve]], [[physical]] [[representatives]] of the [[universe]] [[government]] had been stationed on the [[planet]]. But with the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Adamic default] this [[regime]], extending over a period of more than four hundred and fifty thousand years, came to an end. In the [[spiritual]] [[spheres]], [[angelic helpers]] continued to [[struggle]] in conjunction with the [[Thought Adjusters]], both working [[heroically]] for the salvage of the [[individual]]; but no comprehensive [[plan]] for far-reaching world [[welfare]] was promulgated to the [[mortals]] of [[earth]] until the arrival of [[Machiventa Melchizedek]], in the times of [[Abraham]], who, with the [[power]], [[patience]], and [[authority]] of a [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:1._THE_DESCENDING_SONS_OF_GOD Son of God], did lay the [[foundations]] for the further uplift and [[spiritual]] [[rehabilitation]] of unfortunate [[Urantia]].
76:5.7 Misfortune has not, however, been the sole lot of [[Urantia]]; this [[planet]] has also been the most fortunate in the [[local universe]] of [[Nebadon]]. Urantians should count it all gain if the blunders of their [[ancestors]] and the mistakes of their early world rulers so plunged the [[planet]] into such a hopeless [[state]] of [[confusion]], all the more confounded by [[evil]] and [[sin]], that this very background of [[darkness]] should so [[appeal]] to [[Michael]] of [[Nebadon]] that he selected this world as the arena wherein to [[reveal]] the [[loving]] [[personality]] of [[the Father]] in [[heaven]]. It is not that [[Urantia]] needed a [[Creator Son]] to set its tangled affairs in order; it is rather that the [[evil]] and [[sin]] on [[Urantia]] afforded the [[Creator Son]] a more striking background against which to [[reveal]] the matchless [[love]], [[mercy]], and [[patience]] of the [[Paradise Father]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 Go to Paper 76]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 76 - The Second Garden]]