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75:8.1 [[Adam and Eve]] did fall from their high estate of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 material sonship] down to the lowly [[status]] of [[mortal]] [[man]]. But that was not the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_man fall of man]. The [[human]] [[race]] has been uplifted despite the [[immediate]] [[consequences]] of the Adamic [[default]]. Although the [[divine]] [[plan]] of giving the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] to the [[Urantia]] peoples miscarried, the [[mortal]] races have profited enormously from the limited [[contribution]] which [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adam and his descendants] made to the [[Urantia]] [[races]].
75:8.2 There has been no "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_man fall of man]." The [[history]] of the [[human]] [[race]] is one of [[progressive]] [[evolution]], and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 Adamic bestowal] left the world peoples greatly improved over their previous [[biologic]] condition. The more superior stocks of [[Urantia]] now contain [[inheritance]] [[factors]] derived from as many as four separate sources: [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik], [[Nodite]], and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adamic].
75:8.3 [[Adam]] should not be regarded as the [[cause]] of a [[curse]] on the [[human]] [[race]]. While he did fail in carrying forward the [[divine]] [[plan]], while he did [[transgress]] his [[covenant]] with [[Deity]], while he and his [[mate]] were most certainly degraded in [[creature]] [[status]], notwithstanding all this, their [[contribution]] to the [[human]] [[race]] did much to advance [[civilization]] on [[Urantia]].
75:8.4 In estimating the results of the Adamic mission on your world, [[justice]] demands the [[recognition]] of the condition of the [[planet]]. [[Adam]] was confronted with a well-nigh hopeless task when, with his [[beautiful]] [[mate]], he was [[transported]] from [[Jerusem]] to this [[dark]] and [[confused]] [[planet]]. But had they been [[guided]] by the [[counsel]] of the [[Melchizedeks]] and their [[associates]], and had they been more [[patient]], they would have [[eventually]] met with success. But [[Eve]] listened to the insidious [[propaganda]] of [[personal]] [[liberty]] and [[planetary]] [[freedom]] of [[action]]. She was led to [[experiment]] with the [[life plasm]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 material order of sonship] in that she allowed this life [[trust]] to become prematurely commingled with that of the then mixed order of the [[original]] [[design]] of the [[Life Carriers]] which had been previously combined with that of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF reproducing beings] once attached to the staff of the [[Planetary Prince]].
75:8.5 Never, in all your [[ascent]] to [[Paradise]], will you gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the [[established]] and [[divine]] [[plan]] by short cuts, [[personal]] [[inventions]], or other devices for improving on the way of [[perfection]], to perfection, and for [[eternal]] perfection.
75:8.6 All in all, there probably never was a more disheartening [[miscarriage]] of [[wisdom]] on any [[planet]] in all [[Nebadon]]. But it is not surprising that these missteps occur in the affairs of the [[evolutionary]] [[universes]]. We are a part of a gigantic [[creation]], and it is not strange that everything does not [[work]] in [[perfection]]; our [[universe]] was not created in perfection. Perfection is our [[eternal]] goal, not our [[origin]].
75:8.7 If this were a [[mechanistic]] [[universe]], if the [[First Great Source and Center]] were only a [[force]] and not also a [[personality]], if all [[creation]] were a vast [[aggregation]] of [[physical]] [[matter]] [[dominated]] by precise [[laws]] characterized by unvarying [[energy]] [[actions]], then might [[perfection]] obtain, even despite the incompleteness of [[universe]] [[status]]. There would be no disagreement; there would be no [[friction]]. But in our evolving universe of [[relative]] [[perfection]] and imperfection we [[rejoice]] that disagreement and misunderstanding are [[possible]], for thereby is [[evidenced]] the [[fact]] and the [[act]] of [[personality]] in the [[universe]]. And if our [[creation]] is an [[existence]] [[dominated]] by [[personality]], then can you be [[assured]] of the [[possibilities]] of [[personality]] [[survival]], advancement, and achievement; we can be [[confident]] of [[personality]] [[growth]], [[experience]], and [[adventure]]. What a [[glorious]] [[universe]], in that it is [[personal]] and [[progressive]], not merely [[mechanical]] or even passively perfect!
75:8.8 Presented by [[Solonia]], the seraphic " voice in the Garden. "
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Go to Paper 75]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 75 - The Default of Adam and Eve]]
75:8.1 [[Adam and Eve]] did fall from their high estate of [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 material sonship] down to the lowly [[status]] of [[mortal]] [[man]]. But that was not the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_man fall of man]. The [[human]] [[race]] has been uplifted despite the [[immediate]] [[consequences]] of the Adamic [[default]]. Although the [[divine]] [[plan]] of giving the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76#76:4._THE_VIOLET_RACE violet race] to the [[Urantia]] peoples miscarried, the [[mortal]] races have profited enormously from the limited [[contribution]] which [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adam and his descendants] made to the [[Urantia]] [[races]].
75:8.2 There has been no "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_man fall of man]." The [[history]] of the [[human]] [[race]] is one of [[progressive]] [[evolution]], and the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73 Adamic bestowal] left the world peoples greatly improved over their previous [[biologic]] condition. The more superior stocks of [[Urantia]] now contain [[inheritance]] [[factors]] derived from as many as four separate sources: [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_63#63:5._DISPERSION_OF_THE_ANDONITES Andonite], [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_64#64:6._THE_SIX_SANGIK_RACES_OF_URANTIA Sangik], [[Nodite]], and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78 Adamic].
75:8.3 [[Adam]] should not be regarded as the [[cause]] of a [[curse]] on the [[human]] [[race]]. While he did fail in carrying forward the [[divine]] [[plan]], while he did [[transgress]] his [[covenant]] with [[Deity]], while he and his [[mate]] were most certainly degraded in [[creature]] [[status]], notwithstanding all this, their [[contribution]] to the [[human]] [[race]] did much to advance [[civilization]] on [[Urantia]].
75:8.4 In estimating the results of the Adamic mission on your world, [[justice]] demands the [[recognition]] of the condition of the [[planet]]. [[Adam]] was confronted with a well-nigh hopeless task when, with his [[beautiful]] [[mate]], he was [[transported]] from [[Jerusem]] to this [[dark]] and [[confused]] [[planet]]. But had they been [[guided]] by the [[counsel]] of the [[Melchizedeks]] and their [[associates]], and had they been more [[patient]], they would have [[eventually]] met with success. But [[Eve]] listened to the insidious [[propaganda]] of [[personal]] [[liberty]] and [[planetary]] [[freedom]] of [[action]]. She was led to [[experiment]] with the [[life plasm]] of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_51 material order of sonship] in that she allowed this life [[trust]] to become prematurely commingled with that of the then mixed order of the [[original]] [[design]] of the [[Life Carriers]] which had been previously combined with that of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_66#66:2._THE_PRINCE.27S_STAFF reproducing beings] once attached to the staff of the [[Planetary Prince]].
75:8.5 Never, in all your [[ascent]] to [[Paradise]], will you gain anything by impatiently attempting to circumvent the [[established]] and [[divine]] [[plan]] by short cuts, [[personal]] [[inventions]], or other devices for improving on the way of [[perfection]], to perfection, and for [[eternal]] perfection.
75:8.6 All in all, there probably never was a more disheartening [[miscarriage]] of [[wisdom]] on any [[planet]] in all [[Nebadon]]. But it is not surprising that these missteps occur in the affairs of the [[evolutionary]] [[universes]]. We are a part of a gigantic [[creation]], and it is not strange that everything does not [[work]] in [[perfection]]; our [[universe]] was not created in perfection. Perfection is our [[eternal]] goal, not our [[origin]].
75:8.7 If this were a [[mechanistic]] [[universe]], if the [[First Great Source and Center]] were only a [[force]] and not also a [[personality]], if all [[creation]] were a vast [[aggregation]] of [[physical]] [[matter]] [[dominated]] by precise [[laws]] characterized by unvarying [[energy]] [[actions]], then might [[perfection]] obtain, even despite the incompleteness of [[universe]] [[status]]. There would be no disagreement; there would be no [[friction]]. But in our evolving universe of [[relative]] [[perfection]] and imperfection we [[rejoice]] that disagreement and misunderstanding are [[possible]], for thereby is [[evidenced]] the [[fact]] and the [[act]] of [[personality]] in the [[universe]]. And if our [[creation]] is an [[existence]] [[dominated]] by [[personality]], then can you be [[assured]] of the [[possibilities]] of [[personality]] [[survival]], advancement, and achievement; we can be [[confident]] of [[personality]] [[growth]], [[experience]], and [[adventure]]. What a [[glorious]] [[universe]], in that it is [[personal]] and [[progressive]], not merely [[mechanical]] or even passively perfect!
75:8.8 Presented by [[Solonia]], the seraphic " voice in the Garden. "
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_75 Go to Paper 75]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 75 - The Default of Adam and Eve]]
