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92:4.1 [[Revelation]] is [[evolutionary]] but always [[progressive]]. Down through the ages of a world's [[history]], the [[revelations]] of religion are ever-expanding and successively more [[enlightening]]. It is the mission of [[revelation]] to sort and [[censor]] the successive religions of [[evolution]]. But if [[revelation]] is to exalt and upstep the religions of [[evolution]], then must such [[divine]] [[visitations]] portray teachings which are not too far removed from the [[thought]] and [[reactions]] of the age in which they are presented. Thus must and does [[revelation]] always keep in [[touch]] with [[evolution]]. Always must the religion of [[revelation]] be limited by man's [[capacity]] of [[receptivity]].
92:4.2 But regardless of [[apparent]] [[connection]] or derivation, the religions of [[revelation]] are always characterized by a [[belief]] in some [[Deity]] of final [[value]] and in some concept of the [[survival]] of [[personality]] [[identity]] after [[death]].
92:4.3 [[Evolutionary]] [[religion]] is [[sentimental]], not [[logical]]. It is man's [[reaction]] to [[belief]] in a [[hypothetical]] [[ghost]]-spirit world—the human [[belief]]-reflex, excited by the [[realization]] and [[fear]] of the [[unknown]]. [[Revelatory]] religion is propounded by the real [[spiritual]] world; it is the [[response]] of the [[Superhuman|superintellectual]] [[cosmos]] to the [[mortal]] [[hunger]] to believe in, and depend upon, the [[universal]] [[Gods|Deities]]. [[Evolutionary]] religion pictures the circuitous gropings of [[humanity]] in quest of [[truth]]; [[revelatory]] religion is that very truth.
92:4.4 There have been many [[events]] of religious [[revelation]] but only five of [[epochal]] significance. These were as follows:
*1. 92:4.5 ''[[Dalamatia|The Dalamatian teachings]]''. The true [[concept]] of the [[First Source and Center]] was first promulgated on [[Urantia]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred corporeal members] of [[Planetary Prince|Prince]] [[Caligastia]]' s staff. This expanding [[revelation]] of [[Deity]] went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67 planetary secession] and the disruption of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:5._ORGANIZATION_OF_THE_ONE_HUNDRED teaching regime]. Except for the [[work]] of [[Van]], the [[influence]] of the [[Dalamatia]]n [[revelation]] was [[practically]] lost to the whole world. Even the [[Nodites]] had forgotten this [[truth]] by the time of [[Adam]]' s arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States red men] held them longest, but the [[idea]] of the ''[[Onamonalonton|Great Spirit]]'' was but a hazy [[concept]] in Amerindian [[religion]] when contact with [[Christianity]] greatly [[clarified]] and [[strengthened]] it.
*2. 92:4.6 ''[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 The Edenic teachings]'' [[Adam and Eve]] again portrayed the [[concept]] of [[the Father]] of all to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary peoples]. The disruption of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first Eden] halted the [[course]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adamic revelation] before it had ever fully started. But the [[aborted]] teachings of [[Adam]] were carried on by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethite] [[priests]], and some of these [[truths]] have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire [[trend]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine] [[religious]] [[evolution]] was [[modified]] by the teachings of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethites]. But by [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2500_B.C. 2500 B.C.] [[mankind]] had largely lost sight of the [[revelation]] sponsored in the days of [[Eden]].
*3. 92:4.7 ''[[Melchizedek|Melchizedek of Salem]]''.This [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS emergency Son] of [[Nebadon]] [[inaugurated]] the third [[revelation]] of [[truth]] on [[Urantia]]. The cardinal precepts of his [[teachings]] were [[trust]] and [[faith]]. He taught [[trust]] in the [[omnipotent]] [[beneficence]] of [[God]] and proclaimed that [[faith]] was the [[act]] by which men earned [[God]]'s [[favor]]. His teachings [[gradually]] commingled with the [[beliefs]] and [[practices]] of various [[evolutionary]] [[religions]] and finally [[developed]] into those [[theologic]] [[systems]] present on [[Urantia]] at the opening of the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_A.D. first millennium after Christ].
*4. 92:4.8 ''[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Jesus of Nazareth]''. [[Christ]] [[Michael]] presented for the fourth time to [[Urantia]] the [[concept]] of [[God]] as the [[Universal Father]], and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The [[essence]] of his teaching was [[love]] and [[service]], the loving [[worship]] which a [[creature]] son [[voluntarily]] gives in [[recognition]] of, and [[response]] to, the loving [[ministry]] of [[God]] his [[Father]]; the [[freewill]] [[service]] which such [[creature]] sons [[bestow]] upon their brethren in the [[joyous]] [[realization]] that in this [[service]] they are likewise serving [[God]] [[the Father]].
*5. 92:4.9 ''[[The Urantia Papers]].'' The papers [[constitute]] the most recent presentation of [[truth]] to the [[mortals]] of [[Urantia]]. These papers differ from all previous [[revelations]], for they are not the [[work]] of a single [[universe]] [[personality]] but a composite presentation by many [[beings]]. But no [[revelation]] short of the [[attainment]] of the [[Universal Father]] can ever be complete. All other [[celestial]] ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and [[practically]] [[adapted]] to local conditions in [[time and space]]. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the [[immediate]] [[force]] and [[authority]] of all [[revelations]], the time has arrived on [[Urantia]] when it is advisable to make such frank [[statements]], even at the risk of weakening the [[future]] [[influence]] and [[authority]] of this, the most recent of the [[revelations]] of truth to the [[mortal]] [[races]] of [[Urantia]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92 Go to Paper 92]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 92 - Later Evolution of Religion]]
92:4.1 [[Revelation]] is [[evolutionary]] but always [[progressive]]. Down through the ages of a world's [[history]], the [[revelations]] of religion are ever-expanding and successively more [[enlightening]]. It is the mission of [[revelation]] to sort and [[censor]] the successive religions of [[evolution]]. But if [[revelation]] is to exalt and upstep the religions of [[evolution]], then must such [[divine]] [[visitations]] portray teachings which are not too far removed from the [[thought]] and [[reactions]] of the age in which they are presented. Thus must and does [[revelation]] always keep in [[touch]] with [[evolution]]. Always must the religion of [[revelation]] be limited by man's [[capacity]] of [[receptivity]].
92:4.2 But regardless of [[apparent]] [[connection]] or derivation, the religions of [[revelation]] are always characterized by a [[belief]] in some [[Deity]] of final [[value]] and in some concept of the [[survival]] of [[personality]] [[identity]] after [[death]].
92:4.3 [[Evolutionary]] [[religion]] is [[sentimental]], not [[logical]]. It is man's [[reaction]] to [[belief]] in a [[hypothetical]] [[ghost]]-spirit world—the human [[belief]]-reflex, excited by the [[realization]] and [[fear]] of the [[unknown]]. [[Revelatory]] religion is propounded by the real [[spiritual]] world; it is the [[response]] of the [[Superhuman|superintellectual]] [[cosmos]] to the [[mortal]] [[hunger]] to believe in, and depend upon, the [[universal]] [[Gods|Deities]]. [[Evolutionary]] religion pictures the circuitous gropings of [[humanity]] in quest of [[truth]]; [[revelatory]] religion is that very truth.
92:4.4 There have been many [[events]] of religious [[revelation]] but only five of [[epochal]] significance. These were as follows:
*1. 92:4.5 ''[[Dalamatia|The Dalamatian teachings]]''. The true [[concept]] of the [[First Source and Center]] was first promulgated on [[Urantia]] by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred corporeal members] of [[Planetary Prince|Prince]] [[Caligastia]]' s staff. This expanding [[revelation]] of [[Deity]] went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_67 planetary secession] and the disruption of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:5._ORGANIZATION_OF_THE_ONE_HUNDRED teaching regime]. Except for the [[work]] of [[Van]], the [[influence]] of the [[Dalamatia]]n [[revelation]] was [[practically]] lost to the whole world. Even the [[Nodites]] had forgotten this [[truth]] by the time of [[Adam]]' s arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF one hundred], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States red men] held them longest, but the [[idea]] of the ''[[Onamonalonton|Great Spirit]]'' was but a hazy [[concept]] in Amerindian [[religion]] when contact with [[Christianity]] greatly [[clarified]] and [[strengthened]] it.
*2. 92:4.6 ''[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 The Edenic teachings]'' [[Adam and Eve]] again portrayed the [[concept]] of [[the Father]] of all to the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64 evolutionary peoples]. The disruption of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 first Eden] halted the [[course]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_74 Adamic revelation] before it had ever fully started. But the [[aborted]] teachings of [[Adam]] were carried on by the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethite] [[priests]], and some of these [[truths]] have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire [[trend]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine] [[religious]] [[evolution]] was [[modified]] by the teachings of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:3._LIFE_IN_MESOPOTAMIA Sethites]. But by [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/2500_B.C. 2500 B.C.] [[mankind]] had largely lost sight of the [[revelation]] sponsored in the days of [[Eden]].
*3. 92:4.7 ''[[Melchizedek|Melchizedek of Salem]]''.This [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_35#35:4._SPECIAL_WORK_OF_THE_MELCHIZEDEKS emergency Son] of [[Nebadon]] [[inaugurated]] the third [[revelation]] of [[truth]] on [[Urantia]]. The cardinal precepts of his [[teachings]] were [[trust]] and [[faith]]. He taught [[trust]] in the [[omnipotent]] [[beneficence]] of [[God]] and proclaimed that [[faith]] was the [[act]] by which men earned [[God]]'s [[favor]]. His teachings [[gradually]] commingled with the [[beliefs]] and [[practices]] of various [[evolutionary]] [[religions]] and finally [[developed]] into those [[theologic]] [[systems]] present on [[Urantia]] at the opening of the [http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_A.D. first millennium after Christ].
*4. 92:4.8 ''[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents#Part_IV._The_Life_and_Teachings_of_Jesus Jesus of Nazareth]''. [[Christ]] [[Michael]] presented for the fourth time to [[Urantia]] the [[concept]] of [[God]] as the [[Universal Father]], and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The [[essence]] of his teaching was [[love]] and [[service]], the loving [[worship]] which a [[creature]] son [[voluntarily]] gives in [[recognition]] of, and [[response]] to, the loving [[ministry]] of [[God]] his [[Father]]; the [[freewill]] [[service]] which such [[creature]] sons [[bestow]] upon their brethren in the [[joyous]] [[realization]] that in this [[service]] they are likewise serving [[God]] [[the Father]].
*5. 92:4.9 ''[[The Urantia Papers]].'' The papers [[constitute]] the most recent presentation of [[truth]] to the [[mortals]] of [[Urantia]]. These papers differ from all previous [[revelations]], for they are not the [[work]] of a single [[universe]] [[personality]] but a composite presentation by many [[beings]]. But no [[revelation]] short of the [[attainment]] of the [[Universal Father]] can ever be complete. All other [[celestial]] ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and [[practically]] [[adapted]] to local conditions in [[time and space]]. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the [[immediate]] [[force]] and [[authority]] of all [[revelations]], the time has arrived on [[Urantia]] when it is advisable to make such frank [[statements]], even at the risk of weakening the [[future]] [[influence]] and [[authority]] of this, the most recent of the [[revelations]] of truth to the [[mortal]] [[races]] of [[Urantia]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_92 Go to Paper 92]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 92 - Later Evolution of Religion]]