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121:1.1 [[Jesus]] did not come to this world during an age of [[spiritual]] [[decadence]]; at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Century the time] of his [[birth]] [[Urantia]] was experiencing such a [[revival]] of spiritual [[thinking]] and religious living as it had not known in all its previous [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:3._POST-ADAMIC_MAN post-Adamic history] nor has experienced in any era since. When [[Michael]] [[incarnated]] on [[Urantia]], the world presented the most favorable condition for the [[Creator Son]]'s [[bestowal]] that had ever previously prevailed or has since obtained. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Timeline_of_ancient_history centuries] just prior to these times [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greek culture] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek language] had spread over [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Hellenistic_Greece Occident and near Orient], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews], being a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine race], in nature part [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] and part [[Oriental]], were eminently fitted to utilize such [[cultural]] and [[linguistic]] settings for the effective spread of a new [[religion]] to both East and West. These most favorable circumstances were further enhanced by the [[tolerant]] [[political]] rule of the [[Mediterranean]] world by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident#The_Roman_Empire Romans].

121:1.1 [[Jesus]] did not come to this world during an age of [[spiritual]] [[decadence]]; at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Century the time] of his [[birth]] [[Urantia]] was experiencing such a [[revival]] of spiritual [[thinking]] and religious living as it had not known in all its previous [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_52#52:3._POST-ADAMIC_MAN post-Adamic history] nor has experienced in any era since. When [[Michael]] [[incarnated]] on [[Urantia]], the world presented the most favorable condition for the [[Creator Son]]'s [[bestowal]] that had ever previously prevailed or has since obtained. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Timeline_of_ancient_history centuries] just prior to these times [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greek culture] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language Greek language] had spread over [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece#Hellenistic_Greece Occident and near Orient], and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews], being a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant Levantine race], in nature part [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occidental] and part [[Oriental]], were eminently fitted to utilize such [[cultural]] and [[linguistic]] settings for the effective spread of a new [[religion]] to both East and West. These most favorable circumstances were further enhanced by the [[tolerant]] [[political]] rule of the [[Mediterranean]] world by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident#The_Roman_Empire Romans].

121:1.2 This entire combination of world [[influences]] is well [[illustrated]] by the [[activities]] of []Paul, the Apostle|Paul]], who, being in [[religious]] culture a [[Hebrew]] of the Hebrews, proclaimed the [[gospel]] of a Jewish [[Messiah]] in the [[Greek]] tongue, while he himself was a [[Roman]] [[citizen]].

121:1.2 This entire combination of world [[influences]] is well [[illustrated]] by the [[activities]] of [[Paul, the Apostle|Paul]], who, being in [[religious]] culture a [[Hebrew]] of the Hebrews, proclaimed the [[gospel]] of a Jewish [[Messiah]] in the [[Greek]] tongue, while he himself was a [[Roman]] [[citizen]].

121:1.3 Nothing like the [[civilization]] of the times of [[Jesus]] has been seen in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] before or since those days. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European civilization] was unified and [[co-ordinated]] under an extraordinary threefold [[influence]]:

121:1.3 Nothing like the [[civilization]] of the times of [[Jesus]] has been seen in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident Occident] before or since those days. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe European civilization] was unified and [[co-ordinated]] under an extraordinary threefold [[influence]]: