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The Urantia Book - How Does It Benefit Me? · Urantia Radio

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  Doo Doo, Doo Doo Doo. Well, hello and thank you so
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  much for joining me on this kind of a special different edition
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  of the Your Rancho Radio podcast.
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  And I just want to welcome you. The number one question is what
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  do you get out of it? What is the point of putting
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  your nose in a book that's, you know, 2 inches thick, 1,000,000
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  pages? How does it relate to the day?
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  You know, how does it relate to my life?
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  How does it help me? You know, that's always going to
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  be the first proposition that anybody asks.
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  And I and I took some notes here because in any human
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  transaction, there's always a cost benefit analysis.
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  You know, your time is valuable to you.
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  So you're going to put your time in things that matter or that
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  have a payoff. And even in the life of Jesus,
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  we see that his mission was twofold.
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  And he also decided to allocate time, the things that were
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  important to him based on one concept, which was does it bring
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  me closer to God and does it bring God closer to me?
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  And that was always his question when he was analyzing his cost
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  benefit analysis. He saw the transaction of a
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  personal relationship with a parent and a child as being
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  beneficial in his life. So when it comes to asking what
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  is the benefit of any human being in knowing the Urantia
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  book? Well, let's apply that question.
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  How does reading or studying the Urantia book benefit me or you?
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  What is my cost benefit analysis?
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  Well, the short answer is that it brings you a greater
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  realization and an appreciation for God.
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  That would be the short answer to the Urantia book.
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  It introduces you to a a more valid, reasonable understanding
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  of deity. And now the longer answer to
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  that question, how does the Urantia book benefit me?
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  It potentially improves your relationship with God.
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  And of course, in this transaction, a person's
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  intellectual capacity improves through the worship of God and
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  having that shared relationship. And in return, it provides
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  spiritual insight into meanings, values, and even a purpose in
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  living. Reading the Urantia Book offers
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  the following benefits based on my personal experience.
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  And here are the benefits of the Urantia book #1 It makes you
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  want to be a better person #2 it provides a cosmic yardstick to
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  help measure your progress as a human being.
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  It makes you feel less anxious knowing that there is a better
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  purpose in living. It offers hope for the future,
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  not only for you as an individual, but for this planet.
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  It provides joy and satisfaction when you contemplate the
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  writings that are in the book. It stabilizes your emotional
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  response to the physical world, to external stimulus, so you're
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  not so overwhelmed. You understand that there's a
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  place and a meaning. The things are cyclical, not
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  always linear. It instills a calm and a
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  contemplation of the Supreme. You receive personal
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  satisfaction when you learn about the life and teachings of
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  the most spiritual being in the universe through the life and
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  teachings of Jesus in part 4. It it maintains that you you
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  have a better relationship and have a real desire to love every
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  other human being that you come into, even if at first you don't
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  like them. It makes you want to help other
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  people and to be a part of other things that are going on around
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  you. It provides a path of
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  personality growth without the normal rituals that so many
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  religions require. And it also gives you that
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  innate experience of knowing that you can choose God or you
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  can reject God, but the choice is totally yours.
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  It's your will. And then the Urantia book helps
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  you to sort of decide that it's the right thing to do, and the
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  right thing to do is always the best thing to do.
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  And you make that decision of your own accord without guilt or
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  without pressure. Also, it gives you the benefit
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  of having the experience of having a real and sublime
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  friendship with Jesus through his Spirit that he bestowed upon
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  us upon his death and resurrection.
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  And probably more than anything, relieve you of the fear of being
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  isolated, of being an orphan in a cosmic sea of Infinity.
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  You're no longer alone. And these are just a few of the
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  benefits, and they're reflective of my own experience and
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  studying and sharing the Urantia book.
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  So I hope that at least I can set a premise that would
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  establish why you would want to spend so much time reading the
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  Urantia book. Now, I will tell you just in
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  brief that the Urantia Book is not an easy read.
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  Many people will start from the beginning, which is what you
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  would naturally do when you're reading any book.
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  But I would say that it's probably better to start with
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  Part 3, because Part 3 sort of takes you through familiar
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  territory so that you get a sense of the grand design and
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  how much work went into making life possible so that mortals
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  like us could eventually evolve. And it's a great place to start.
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  And it also fills in a lot of missing history.
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  And then you'll start to develop a sort of a kinship with the
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  language and at first certain terms won't make any sense to
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  you, but it against the backdrop of the context of human
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  existence, you'll start become more more familiar.
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  Then you can go back and read the first five papers of Part 1,
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  Part 1. The 1st 5 papers will get you
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  started on understanding the Infinity and the eternity, the
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  absoluteness, and also the personality of the Creator,
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  Father, First Source, and Center.
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  So start with either part three of the book or start with the
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  1st 5 pages of Part 1, and that'll give you a good place to
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  sort of get used to the journey of exploring the Urantia book.
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  So we'll leave it at that. I hope that that was helpful to
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  you, and I hope to see you often here.
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  And we'll continue to do these sort of introductory series.
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  And I hope the video format works for you.
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  And we're always dropping new episodes once a week right here
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  on this podcast platform. So we'll see you next time and I
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  appreciate you stopping by.