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=='''Who Wrote It?'''==
 
=='''Who Wrote It?'''==
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The Urantia Book is an anthology of 196 "papers" indited between 1928 and 1935 by superhuman personalities whose names are given with their respective papers in the book.
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The Urantia Book is an anthology of 196 "papers" written mostly between 1928 and 1935 by superhuman personalities whose titles are appended to their respective essays.
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The humans into whose hands the papers were delivered are now deceased. The means by which the papers were materialized was unique and is not clearly understood.
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The humans into whose hands these papers were delivered are now deceased. The means by which the papers were materialized was is not clearly understood.
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The contents are a compilation of the best thinking of more than 1,000 human authors writing between the first century and the present era, edited and combined with information and commentary by a superhuman revelatory commission.
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The contents are a compilation of some of the best thinking from more than 1,000 human authors writing between the first century and the early 20th century, edited and sometimes combined with information and commentary by the "first revelatory commission".  
    
Current research is beginning to identify the human sources used in this undertaking.
 
Current research is beginning to identify the human sources used in this undertaking.
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Although the Urantia Papers have been in print for nearly fifty years, no formal religion has sprung from their teachings.
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The spiritual insights of the book are used by teachers, ministers, and lay persons of many faiths to enrich the highest values in their own traditions.
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Many individuals outside established religious institutions have developed rich, personal spiritual lives as a result of reading The Urantia Book.
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An international network of independent study groups continues to develop. Several translations exist and more are currently in progress.
      
[[Category: Articles]]
 
[[Category: Articles]]

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