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4:5.4 The barbarous [[idea]] of appeasing an [[angry]] [[God]], of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of [[Deity]] through [[sacrifices]] and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a [[religion]] wholly puerile and [[primitive]], a [[philosophy]] unworthy of an [[The Enlightenment|enlightened age]] of [[science]] and [[truth]]. Such [[beliefs]] are utterly repulsive to the [[celestial]] beings and the [[Supreme Creators|divine rulers]] who [[serve]] and reign in [[Grand Universe|the universes]]. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that [[Atonement|innocent blood must be shed]] in order to win his favor or to divert the [[Fiction|fictitious]] [[divine]] [[wrath]].

4:5.4 The barbarous [[idea]] of appeasing an [[angry]] [[God]], of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of [[Deity]] through [[sacrifices]] and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a [[religion]] wholly puerile and [[primitive]], a [[philosophy]] unworthy of an [[The Enlightenment|enlightened age]] of [[science]] and [[truth]]. Such [[beliefs]] are utterly repulsive to the [[celestial]] beings and the [[Supreme Creators|divine rulers]] who [[serve]] and reign in [[Grand Universe|the universes]]. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that [[Atonement|innocent blood must be shed]] in order to win his favor or to divert the [[Fiction|fictitious]] [[divine]] [[wrath]].

4:5.5 The [[Hebrews]] believed that "without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of [[sin]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_IX] They had not found [[Liberation|deliverance]] from the old and [[pagan]] [[idea]] that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] did make a distinct advance when he forbade [[human]] [[sacrifices]] and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/Bedouin Bedouin] followers, the [[ceremonial]] [[sacrifice]] of [[animals]].

4:5.5 The [[Hebrews]] believed that "without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of [[sin]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews#The_Letter_to_the_Hebrews.2C_IX] They had not found [[Liberation|deliverance]] from the old and [[pagan]] [[idea]] that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses] did make a distinct advance when he forbade [[human]] [[sacrifices]] and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedouin Bedouin] followers, the [[ceremonial]] [[sacrifice]] of [[animals]].

4:5.6 The [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|bestowal of a Paradise Son]] on your world was inherent in the situation of [[New Age|closing a planetary age]]; it was inescapable, and it was not made [[necessary]] for the [[purpose]] of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final [[personal]] [[act]] of a [[Creator Son]] in the long [[adventure]] of [[Paper 119 - The Bestowals of Christ Michael|earning the experiential sovereignty]] of his [[Nebadon|universe]]. What a travesty upon the infinite [[character]] of [[God]]! this teaching that his [[fatherly]] [[heart]] in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and [[Grief|sorrows]] of his [[creatures]] that his tender [[mercies]] were not forthcoming until he saw his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD blameless Son] bleeding and dying upon the [[Crucifixion|cross of Calvary]]!

4:5.6 The [[Paper 120 - The Bestowal of Michael on Urantia|bestowal of a Paradise Son]] on your world was inherent in the situation of [[New Age|closing a planetary age]]; it was inescapable, and it was not made [[necessary]] for the [[purpose]] of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final [[personal]] [[act]] of a [[Creator Son]] in the long [[adventure]] of [[Paper 119 - The Bestowals of Christ Michael|earning the experiential sovereignty]] of his [[Nebadon|universe]]. What a travesty upon the infinite [[character]] of [[God]]! this teaching that his [[fatherly]] [[heart]] in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and [[Grief|sorrows]] of his [[creatures]] that his tender [[mercies]] were not forthcoming until he saw his [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_20#20:5._BESTOWAL_OF_THE_PARADISE_SONS_OF_GOD blameless Son] bleeding and dying upon the [[Crucifixion|cross of Calvary]]!