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I bought a book on string theory and forth dimension and never got past chapter two. My mind never was conditioned to read that stuff.
In that case it is still wrong.Sigh......., Stuu,
• The Solar system was considered as such by the revelators when the plants began to form from the material that was disgorged from the Sun. The sun was basically alone prior to that. It would have just been a Solar and not a Solar System.
• The book says 4.5 billion years, you are flat wrong.
Caino
* Jesus didn’t say he was God the Father manifest in the flesh, he said he was "the Son of God" Divine yes, but he wasn’t the Father himself, rather Jesus was unified with the Father.
........pointless to go on, Aimiel is a typical pig headed Christian who is just as stubborn and self righteous as the people who killed Jesus.
Caino
182:1.9 The Master, during the course of this final prayer with his apostles, alluded to the fact that he had manifested the Father's name to the world. And that is truly what he did by the revelation of God through his perfected life in the flesh. The Father in heaven had sought to reveal himself to Moses, but he could proceed no further than to cause it to be said, " I AM. " And when pressed for further revelation of himself, it was only disclosed, " I AM that I AM. " But when Jesus had finished his earth life, this name of the Father had been so revealed that the Master, who was the Father incarnate, could truly say:
Fear? :chuckle:
I laugh at fear: "Ha-ha-ha-ha."
I fear The Lord. Men, imaginary gods, demons, spells, economic forecasts, weather forecasts and even juvenile zealots with box-cutter knives hijacking airplanes cannot frighten me.
I don't know what questions I've left un-answered that you're referring to. All you have to do is ask.
Jesus was certainly the Father incarnate which means "manifest in the flesh". He was more than just "unified with the Father". He was the Father incarnate.
Also, freelight, thanks for the warning, but because so many have responded to Aimiel with a lot of sarcasm and name-calling, I would like to approach him without any of that.
Since he has not answered my questions, possibly I may have touched his fear or something I said may ring true to him. Who knows. He will know the Truth and the Truth will set him free.
Thanks, again.
Ignorance or a possible misperception(mistake) doesn't like to be exposed, especially if one has already expended so much energy to denigrate and demonize something. To admit that there might be some truth, wisdom and light in the Papers would be to demolish his whole position, the position of his religious ego would be challenged, rendered invalid. Imagine how devestating that would be.
The Kingdom is not of this world. The Kingdom is spiritual. Only The Holy Spirit can reveal The Kingdom to you, and only if you're born again.What is the Kingdom of God and where is it?
I cannot tell you. The natural man cannot comprehend His Kingdom.What is it that we “see?”
To come into communion or relationship with The Holy Spirit, through a saving faith in Jesus, Who is Christ. He changes your very nature. Not only do you believe His Word more, but you come to understand His Word more easily, have a heart for His lambs and begin to desire sin less and less every day.What does it mean to “be born again”, “born of the spirit?”
I've been born again, and have His Spirit residing in me.What is your experience?
It's a personal relationship with The Lord. I know Him in Whom I have believed. The hatred and selfishness that used to lead me around by the nose is gone.How do you know you are "born again?"
Because He is terrible.I would add: why do you "fear" God?
Those who become born again, come to know Him because of His Love. Those who mature, come to know that He is to be honored for His Holiness, adored because of His Love and feared, because of His vast Power.Would it not be better to know Him personally and to know His love?
Um... NO!!! I didn't.... you said:You said a personal, experiential relationship with God is “hogwash”. I wonder, why would you say this since this is what it is all about? Your personal relationship, experience with God should be the most important, the most desired thing in your life, yet you call it "hogwash" and call yourself a Christian, as well. You say the personal experience (firsthand experience) of finding and knowing God is “hogwash.”
... to which I replied:"The world needs more firsthand religion. Even Christianity—the best of the religions of the twentieth century—is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand. They take their religion wholly as handed down by their accepted religious teachers."
Hogwash. Those of us who are born again actually see The Kingdom, we don't have to merely hear words 'about' it from others.
Reading His Word, praying, fellowshipping with other born again Christians, being under anointed preaching, teaching, prophecy and apostolic guidance. Not to belittle first-hand knowledge, through The Word of Prophecy, Who is Lord of all, but He inspired His Word to be written so that we could learn the Truth about life, through the lessons He designed into the lives of Biblical characters.How would you suggest one knows or finds God other than firsthand?
First and foremost: it was channeled by a demon. Second: it makes Christ into an angel, which He is not. He is God. Michael is His creation, not His brother.I also asked that you name some of the “demonic doctrines” that you insist are in The Urantia Book.
It 'seems' right, but isn't. It contains just enough 'truth' to convince a marginal Christian to believe it's from God, but exactly enough demonic doctrine to lead the maximum number of lambs astray from The Lord.I would also like to know why you believe that The Urantia Book leads one away from God?
I have not, yet.I believe I also asked, have you actually read The Urantia Book in it's entirety?
I welcome your inquiries. Yours and Freelight's presumptions regarding my beliefs are many, and I look forward to the chance to clear them up.I have other questions, but I will give you the opportunity to answer these few first.
Absolutely. But, in the great odds that he might find humility and admit his fear and acknowledge his ignorance, then I shall give him that opportunity.
Considering that The Universal Father has "downstepped" Himself (not just His authority) I would say that when The Urantia Book says that Jesus was the incarnation of the Father then that is truly what it means; Jesus was the manifestation of the Father in the flesh. We are all part of the Father. Nothing exists without Him. If you have seen a Creator Son, you have seen the Father. Let's don't try to analyze it, just accept that the "mystery" of the Father manifesting in the flesh is a truth and He desires to manifest in and through us as well. He indeed dwells within us as the indwelling Thought Adjuster.
Sometimes people become sarcastic in back and forth "arguments" such as what we find on forums, because they are unable to present what they believe in a civil tone due to their insecurities and fears. They also feel the need to convince someone else of their mistaken views because they are not really convinced of their own views and fear they may be "wrong". This, of course, is an unconscious reaction manifesting in immature sarcasm. But that's OK... it isn't necessarily keeping them from the truth. What keeps them from receiving the truth is usually all the pre-conceived ideas that they fear to let go of. It's hard to let go of years and years of misconceptions. But once you do you can look back and see how narrow your view was and you move on.
Anyway, I don't intend to continue "arguing" for long. There is so much one can say and then you have to just let the Spirit of Truth reveal the truth within them. It's already there, they just have to open up.
Jesus was certainly the Father incarnate which means "manifest in the flesh". He was more than just "unified with the Father". He was the Father incarnate.
When I first discovered this topic on Urantia, I found something new to me. While I was reading this topic, I've noticed that the Urantia Book say many things about religion, Christians and denominations. I may have to agree that Christians do go way off the neverending path. I've noticed there is another member on TOL. His ID is Letsargue. His topics can be found at:
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/search.php?searchid=662170
Letsargue has the same attitude towards other Christians and many denominations if not all of them as the Urantia book readers say here at this topic. Please take the time to peek at Letsargue topics and find the similarities of his beliefs regarding other Christians and denominations and the beliefs on the Urantia Books regarding to Christians and denominations. I can't help to see some similarities on the two belief system. Perhaps Letargue is also a Urantia Book reader. Can you point out the differences?
I meant that Jesus wasn't the original Father, but he is "a chip off the ole block". The creator sons are from the Father, expressions of the Father, manifestations of the Father, but they are separate beings, personalities.
The UB says that these truths are "nonunderstandable".......to the finite mind of man.
Caino
Letsargue has the same attitude towards other Christians and many denominations if not all of them as the Urantia book readers say here at this topic. Please take the time to peek at Letsargue topics and find the similarities of his beliefs regarding other Christians and denominations and the beliefs on the Urantia Books regarding to Christians and denominations. I can't help to see some similarities on the two belief system. Perhaps Letargue is also a Urantia Book reader. Can you point out the differences?
.Reading His Word, praying, fellowshipping with other born again Christians, being under anointed preaching, teaching, prophecy and apostolic guidance. Not to belittle first-hand knowledge, through The Word of Prophecy, Who is Lord of all, but He inspired His Word to be written so that we could learn the Truth about life, through the lessons He designed into the lives of Biblical characters
First and foremost: it was channeled by a demon. Second: it makes Christ into an angel, which He is not. He is God. Michael is His creation, not His brother.
Urantia Book, Paper 4, Page 59
Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the God-knowing men of past ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker.
The Bible is the perfectly preserved record of God's Perfect Word to men. Belief in the demonic doctrine of the UB, instead of The Holy Bible is heresy.
The list goes on and on... but these are clearly opposed to Christianity, and not hand-in-hand with it, as some believe.
1 Corinthians 2:14But you just said... "the Holy Spirit can reveal the Kingdom to you and only if you are born again." You have also said, "I've been born again, and have His Spirit residing in me." So if you have the Spirit residing within and you have been born again you should be able to tell me what the Kingdom of God is. Only those who have been born of the spirit shall see the Kingdom of Heaven. So, what do you see?
The world needs more born again Christians, not men who experiment with false religions and demonic doctrines. First hand experience with demons whom you've presumed are angels is NOT from God, and never will be endorsed by Him. Yes, many Christians know 'about' God; and never come to know Him. The UB doesn't lead anyone to God, though, only to Satan, masquerading as God.Quote:
Originally Posted by One Truth
"The world needs more firsthand religion. Even Christianity—the best of the religions of the twentieth century—is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand. They take their religion wholly as handed down by their accepted religious teachers."
You say that you did not say "hogwash to that statement. But you did and when you say "hogwash" to the fact that the world needs more "firsthand religion" and say that "one knows or finds God other than firsthand"
You haven't done your homework. The Bible is accurately handed down, and if you don't want to believe that God not only is capable of doing so, but did so in Person, then you're on your own.First of all, you would have to show me how the Bible has been perfectly preserved (the Bible, as we know it today, being only close to 400 years old) having been translated and revised over 100 versions. This is not preservation.
I don't believe that, but if you'd stop putting words in my mouth through presumption, we might be able to communicate better.You must be one who believes that the canon of Scripture is "that which is perfect" from 1 Corinthians 13:10 "But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." That is another discussion.
:rotfl: It corrupts every single Truth it quotes from Scripture or from Christian doctrines.Heresy can only be valid when Truth has being corrupted. The Urantia Book does not corrupt any truths.
Noting about the UB is valid, based upon sound doctrine, sent from God, reveals any 'higher understanding' but ONLY corrupts the minds of anyone who might think that it is even partially valid. It's garbage.(It) validates, enlarges and reveals a higher understanding of certain concepts taught through Christianity, but it does not corrupt the Truth.
First of all, the Urantia Papers were not "channeled". How do you suppose God spoke to the Prophets? How do you suppose an Angel spoke to man?
Secondly, The Urantia Book does not say anywhere that Christ -- the Creator Son, Michael -- (who became Jesus in the flesh) is a created Angel. He is the Son of the Living God.
"In the local creations (excepting the personnel of the superuniverses) God has no personal or residential manifestation aside from the Paradise creator sons who are the fathers of the inhabited worlds and the sovereigns of the local universes. If the faith of the creature were perfect, he would assuredly know that when he had seen a Creator Son he had seen the Universal Father; in seeking for the Father, he would not ask nor expect to see other than the Son. Mortal man simply cannot see God until he achieves completed spirit transformation and actually attains Paradise."
As persons you may conceive of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son as separate individuals, for they indeed are; but in the administration of the universes they are so intertwined and interrelated that it is not always possible to distinguish between them