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*When we, the [[midwayers]], first prepared the summary of [[Jesus]]' teachings at Urmia, there arose a disagreement between the [[seraphim]] of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the [[wisdom]] of including these teachings in the [[Urantia Book|Urantia Revelation]]. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus' day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master's teachings at Urmia to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master's teachings which was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master's Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus' teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.

*When we, the [[midwayers]], first prepared the summary of [[Jesus]]' teachings at Urmia, there arose a disagreement between the [[seraphim]] of the churches and the seraphim of progress as to the [[wisdom]] of including these teachings in the [[Urantia Book|Urantia Revelation]]. Conditions of the twentieth century, prevailing in both religion and human governments, are so different from those prevailing in Jesus' day that it was indeed difficult to adapt the Master's teachings at Urmia to the problems of the kingdom of God and the kingdoms of men as these world functions are existent in the twentieth century. We were never able to formulate a statement of the Master's teachings which was acceptable to both groups of these seraphim of planetary government. Finally, the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission appointed a commission of three of our number to prepare our view of the Master's Urmia teachings as adapted to twentieth-century religious and political conditions on Urantia. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus' teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission.

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*Acting under the supervision of a commission of twelve members of the United Brotherhood of Urantia [[Midwayers]], conjointly sponsored by the presiding head of our order and the [[Melchizedek]] of record, I am the [[secondary midwayer]] of onetime attachment to the [[Apostle Andrew]], and I am authorized to place on record the narrative of the life transactions of [[Jesus of Nazareth]] as they were observed by my order of earth creatures, and as they were subsequently partially recorded by the human subject of my temporal guardianship. Knowing how his [[Master]] so scrupulously avoided leaving written records behind him, Andrew steadfastly refused to multiply copies of his written narrative. A similar attitude on the part of the other [[apostles]] of [[Jesus]] greatly delayed the writing of the [[Gospels]].

*Acting under the supervision of a commission of twelve members of the United Brotherhood of Urantia [[Midwayers]], conjointly sponsored by the presiding head of our order and the [[Melchizedek]] of record, I am the [[secondary midwayer]] of onetime attachment to the [[Apostle Andrew]], and I am authorized to place on record the narrative of the life transactions of [[Jesus|Jesus of Nazareth]] as they were observed by my order of earth creatures, and as they were subsequently partially recorded by the human subject of my temporal guardianship. Knowing how his [[Master]] so scrupulously avoided leaving written records behind him, Andrew steadfastly refused to multiply copies of his written narrative. A similar attitude on the part of the other [[apostles]] of [[Jesus]] greatly delayed the writing of the [[Gospels]].

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*ASSIGNED by [[Gabriel]] to supervise the restatement of the life of Michael when on Urantia and in the likeness of mortal flesh, I, the Melchizedek director of the revelatory commission intrusted with this task, am authorized to present this narrative of certain events which immediately preceded the Creator Son's arrival on [[Urantia]] to embark upon the terminal phase of his universe [[bestowal]] [[experience]]. To live such identical lives as he imposes upon the intelligent beings of his own creation, thus to bestow himself in the likeness of his various orders of created beings, is a part of the price which every Creator Son must pay for the full and supreme [[sovereignty]] of his self-made universe of [[things]] and [[being]]s.

*ASSIGNED by [[Gabriel]] to supervise the restatement of the life of Michael when on Urantia and in the likeness of mortal flesh, I, the Melchizedek director of the revelatory commission intrusted with this task, am authorized to present this narrative of certain events which immediately preceded the Creator Son's arrival on [[Urantia]] to embark upon the terminal phase of his universe [[bestowal]] [[experience]]. To live such identical lives as he imposes upon the intelligent beings of his own creation, thus to bestow himself in the likeness of his various orders of created beings, is a part of the price which every Creator Son must pay for the full and supreme [[sovereignty]] of his self-made universe of [[things]] and [[being]]s.