Thank you for your interest in this presentation. The ideas and opinions presented are those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent those of Urantia Foundation or Urantia Book International School (UBIS). Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/james-watkins/ If you are interested in taking a free online course, visit new.ubis.urantia.org/moodle/ or contact joanne@urantia.org.
I was led to TUB in an amazing manner on Dec 10, 1997 with my Command Sergeant Major. After that day, my CSM had a formation with our soldiers and they all ordered TUB. I’m not scared of turning anyone on to checking it out. Even my own brothers and sister refuse to read it. I’ve given out many and handed out how to order it. It’s free online now, so no problem. Just talk to people, get to know them and suggest reading it. “It may just be the most valuable book you ever read. I’ve seen it change many lives, including my own.” There’s a big reason why many people are leaving churches. This book will help you understand why. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read it (many, many times!), but each time I read it, I receive new truth!
One of my favorite quotes from the UB that I share often is: "195:7.3 The inconsistency of the modern mechanist is: If this were merely a material universe and man only a machine, such a man would be wholly unable to recognize himself as such a machine, and likewise would such a machine-man be wholly unconscious of the fact of the existence of such a material universe. The materialistic dismay and despair of a mechanistic science has failed to recognize the fact of the spirit-indwelt mind of the scientist whose very supermaterial insight formulates these mistaken and self-contradictory concepts of a materialistic universe." I have yet to get a response taking issue with it from the atheists I interact with.
*A group of mortals can experience spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity.* 03:1.1 (1129.8) The unity of religious experience among a social or racial group derives from the identical nature of the God fragment indwelling the individual. It is this divine in man that gives origin to his unselfish interest in the welfare of other men. But since personality is unique-no two mortals being alike-it inevitably follows that no two human beings can similarly interpret the leadings and urges of the spirit of divinity which lives within their minds. *A group of mortals can experience spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity.* And this diversity of the interpretation of religious thought and experience is shown by the fact that twentieth-century theologians and philosophers have formulated upward of five hundred different definitions of religion. In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation be unique and wholly different from the religious philosophy of all other human beings.
May I ask a question?! Why do we assume everything these authors are saying is the True Reality? How do we know it is just not another "channeled" revelation from some Higher Beings playing a joke on us? Were the very first papers given in the same manner as the Edgar Cayce readings? 🤔
Thank you for your interest in this presentation. The ideas and opinions presented are those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent those of Urantia Foundation or Urantia Book International School (UBIS).
Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/james-watkins/
If you are interested in taking a free online course, visit new.ubis.urantia.org/moodle/ or contact joanne@urantia.org.
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I was led to TUB in an amazing manner on Dec 10, 1997 with my Command Sergeant Major. After that day, my CSM had a formation with our soldiers and they all ordered TUB. I’m not scared of turning anyone on to checking it out. Even my own brothers and sister refuse to read it. I’ve given out many and handed out how to order it. It’s free online now, so no problem. Just talk to people, get to know them and suggest reading it. “It may just be the most valuable book you ever read. I’ve seen it change many lives, including my own.” There’s a big reason why many people are leaving churches. This book will help you understand why. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read it (many, many times!), but each time I read it, I receive new truth!
One of my favorite quotes from the UB that I share often is:
"195:7.3 The inconsistency of the modern mechanist is: If this were merely a material universe and man only a machine, such a man would be wholly unable to recognize himself as such a machine, and likewise would such a machine-man be wholly unconscious of the fact of the existence of such a material universe. The materialistic dismay and despair of a mechanistic science has failed to recognize the fact of the spirit-indwelt mind of the scientist whose very supermaterial insight formulates these mistaken and self-contradictory concepts of a materialistic universe."
I have yet to get a response taking issue with it from the atheists I interact with.
*A group of mortals can experience spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity.*
03:1.1 (1129.8) The unity of religious experience among a social or racial group derives from the identical nature of the God fragment indwelling the individual. It is this divine in man that gives origin to his unselfish interest in the welfare of other men. But since personality is unique-no two mortals being alike-it inevitably follows that no two human beings can similarly interpret the leadings and urges of the spirit of divinity which lives within their minds. *A group of mortals can experience spiritual unity, but they can never attain philosophic uniformity.* And this diversity of the interpretation of religious thought and experience is shown by the fact that twentieth-century theologians and philosophers have formulated upward of five hundred different definitions of religion. In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation be unique and wholly different from the religious philosophy of all other human beings.
May I ask a question?! Why do we assume everything these authors are saying is the True Reality? How do we know it is just not another "channeled" revelation from some Higher Beings playing a joke on us? Were the very first papers given in the same manner as the Edgar Cayce readings? 🤔