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OK, so it's time for another edition of the Rancho Radio.
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Podcast. And I am your host.
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Jim Watkins is my name. Long time reader since 1982.
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I even wrote it on my book on the inside flap the day I
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started reading the book. And that was a long, long time
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ago. And it's good to be here and I
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want to share. A lot with you today.
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I've been writing a lot of notes.
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I haven't been keeping my normal regiment because life gets
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complicated and we're all so busy trying to keep.
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Up right. And that's me too.
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And I. Apologize because I I.
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So long to have that time with you to.
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Talk about the fifth epical. Revelation So many things that
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go through my mind about so much.
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Just a couple of things that. We will talk about today the 10.
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Things I I started to think. About how could.
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The Urantia book Change the World.
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That thought often comes into my mind.
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Maybe you too when you're reading a a passage.
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That light goes. Off in your head and you say, my
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God, if, if everybody could experience the feeling of
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knowing what I've just learned, how much of a difference would
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that make in the world? And there's so many things wrong
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in the. World I I just.
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Had a conversation with my son and he's in his mid 20s and he's
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perplexed by how much evil is in the world.
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I'm not sure if it's always been this bad, I think we just see it
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more. Easily, because everybody is.
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On their smartphones, we're getting to hear what other
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people are thinking all of the time.
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That has to be. Part of the problem.
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It's too much information. I saw a.
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Woman, she recorded herself and she's.
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Got a little baby? She's holding the baby and she
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says, you know, the best thing you can do right now is get rid
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of your smartphone, go back to the landline and spend time with
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your kids and don't get. Distracted by.
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Everything else that's going on in the world, I sometimes think
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that's probably. Good advice, so we'll talk
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about. 10 year Rancho book concepts in a little bit.
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Also I want to talk about Christianity.
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I think a lot about Christianity, and you and I
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have. Talked about.
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The role of Christianity in the world and I have some insights I
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want to share with you about. That before we take our break to
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pay the bills, as they say. I want to direct you back.
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Over to the Urantia radio.org website, urantiaradio.org.
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It's getting, it's getting more and more where I want it to be
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my. Podcaster archive.
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There it also has a. Description so that you can kind
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Got a thought? Or or even if you just want to
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say. Howdy, it's so easy.
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Just go to yourrancherradio.org. And look.
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start recording. And if you don't want me to use
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the message, then leave that message too, and I won't hear
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it. And also on the tail end of this
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episode, I want to talk a little bit about my interview with
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Halbert Katzen, which you can hear on the urantiaradio.org.
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Website just looking for the. Live stream icon and that will.
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Take you to. My new live stream.
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That I just set. Up and and what that live stream
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is, it's kind of cool that you can listen to Urantia music, you
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can listen to all the music. That we feature.
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Here with David Dinger, you can listen to past interviews.
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That go back 5. Years, in fact, my first
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interview with Larry Mullen. Is is.
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On the live stream, I'm going to keep it.
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Up there for a couple weeks. So I know a lot of plug Ola
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going on there, but. Let's take a quick break.
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And we'll come back and we'll talk about the 10 things the
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Urantia book says that I believe will completely change the world
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when we continue on the Urantia Radio.
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Podcast. Welcome back to the Rancho Radio
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Podcast. I just wanted to give you kind
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of a moment to decompress. I I gave.
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It some thought and I want to share some of my.
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Ideas with you about we we do. Spend a lot of time reading the
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book and and in this episode we we won't be reading any.
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Papers, but we will talk about the.
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Book and its impact on on. The world at.
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Large and obviously it is a revelation.
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It it compares itself on the same level as Melchizedek, even
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the revelation of Jesus Christ when he presented.
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The Father to us. In human form.
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And now here we are, 2000 years. Later with a book that.
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Proclaims itself an epical revelation and so in order to
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put itself in that position of importance, I think it's.
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Important for us to look at. What the Urantia book says in
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totality in a summary form, and then extrapolate from that what
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that knowledge would do and what it means for the world.
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And so at the very. Top of the list here are the. 10
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Urantia book concepts. I believe if they were widely.
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Understood and embraced could realistically change the
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direction of of human. Society for the better.
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Along with examples. Of how they could.
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Work in. Practice.
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So at the very top of the list, the.
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Idea of a universal. Fatherhood of God the.
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Teaching is that all humans are children of one God, no
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exceptions. Now think of the impact if that
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was embraced. Number one, it would end racial,
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national and religious superiority claims #2 it would
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create a sense of true global family and as an example,
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government schools. Religious groups could focus on
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building unity rather than dividing along identity lines.
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That from the one singular truth and the embracement of the
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truth, if we could get to that point.
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Where we could actually say, as Jesus taught over it was the
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core. Principle of his of his teaching
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it was the reason he came here was to introduce.
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Us to his father, that as the eldest.
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Son, think about that, the universality.
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Of the fatherhood of God. Now I know that the Christianity
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teaches the Father in heaven, but somehow it it has managed
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to. Be perceived as a.
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Western religion I don't see any other faith saying that the.
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Father is the fatherhood of all people.
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Even people who don't believe in the.
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Fatherhood of God, He is still their Father.
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And it's. Because of that equal.
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Disbursement of His grace that we can all say we're brothers
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and sisters in the spiritual sense and that leads to the next
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concept that the. Urantia book teaches.
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That, if embraced, could change the spiritual tone of this world
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#2 the brotherhood and sisterhood of man.
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Every human being is spiritually equal and equally loved.
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And think of the impact if if that concept was embraced.
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It would end prejudice, bigotry, discrimination.
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It would lose all of these things, would lose their moral
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legitimacy. The idea of us.
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Being a brotherhood and a sisterhood of man, mankind, the
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human, it fosters empathy across cultural and political.
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Divides, as Jesus taught. All men are your.
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Brothers love them as you love yourself.
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And think about all the conflicts that might be solved
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with immigration and foreign policy and humanitarianism and
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and they would be guided by a moral kinship rather than
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complete self-interest. But.
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It starts with the seed of the idea of of the.
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Brotherhood and sisterhood, concept of a universal religion.
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That is. Based on the.
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Fatherhood of God. And then here's #3 which is a
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big one. The thought adjuster.
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If if human beings were cognizant of the fact.
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That they were in. Possession of the Spirit,
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fragment of the Father in their minds.
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A literal. Fragment of God indwelling every
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normal human being. Regardless of their.
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Race, their creed, their gender, it doesn't matter.
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But think of the. The effect it would have.
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If everyone felt dignified in knowing that they had the
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fragment of the living Father within the citadel of their
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mind, every person would see themselves.
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As a sacred part of God. Each would have eternal meaning.
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We would understand that it is that fragment that survives and.
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Carries us forward. Justice systems focused on
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rehabilitation and potential rather than only punishment.
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You know, because our current justice system, and it may be
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somewhat partially true, maybe not, but mostly we think that of
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serious offenders as being irredeemable, but.
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I've heard stories I've. Got friends who?
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Collect stories of. Redemption, and it's there and
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that redemption, where does it come from?
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It comes from the notion of a human being connecting with God
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and turning their life over to Him and how it changes people
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once they connect with that spirit fragment number.
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Four. What else?
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Could the. Urantia Book.
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Teach the World. How about the eternal?
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Life as the true goal, the. Teaching of mortal life being
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but the first stage of an eternal spiritual career.
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Now the Urantia. Book does teach us.
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That the day-to-day living is very important and we are not to
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forsake. That we have a duty to live
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this. Part of our immortal life, our
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existence as good citizens, faithful servants, indeed as
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brothers in a spiritual Kingdom. But to teach that this is only
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one segment of a longer period of time that stretches into the
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future. Will there be less?
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Apprehension and fear and anxiety about death.
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I mean, you think you know, say people.
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Say that they. Invented religion because.
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Well, because people are afraid. Of dying well.
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Absolutely they're afraid of we're all.
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Afraid of dying? We're all afraid of our
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mortality. Who wouldn't be if if animals
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knew that they were going to die?
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They'd be a little upset about that.
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They don't know that, they don't conceive you of death in the way
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that we do, but it's that conception of the potential for
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there not to be. Death that.
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Distinguishes us from our animal cousins because we know that
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this is going to end and we think, well then what's next?
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Nothing. That's what secularism teaches
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and that's where the moral panic starts to arise and emerge.
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People living for long term soul growth rather than short term
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materialism would have a transformative effect on a human
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being the the the normal and average.
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Pitfalls of everyday. Life would be lessened.
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The burden of that lessened knowing that everything that in
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your life has intrinsic value and meaning.
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How much? Does that elevate your?
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Purpose in life and man, let me tell you what the, the anxiety,
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that mental illness, the all of the different afflictions where,
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where's that message going to come from #5 the religion of
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personal spiritual experience. True religion is a personal
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connection with God. It is not a religious adherence
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to creeds or institutions. It is those things.
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It is. Those characteristics of.
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Evolutionary religion that drive modern man away from God, not
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to. God that they have to follow.
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A certain amount of rules or. That they have to.
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Pray so many times a day or that they have to do something on one
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day but not do it on the. No, God is an is a 24/7
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operation. But what that means is that that
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that personal. Religious experience is the.
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Only requirement. To live a religious.
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Life and that transformative effect would make people
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naturally want to be better people, number six.
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Jesus has the. Revelation of God's character
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teaching so much of the the gospel, so much of the New
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Testament is based on the resurrection of Christ, and we
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shouldn't downplay or undermine the importance of that.
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But that's not why he. Lived.
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He lived to show us the. Revelation of God's character.
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He who has seen me has seen the Father.
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Christ is the highest. Representative of the Eternal
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Father of any personality. He revealed God's.
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Love in his life. It it was literally.
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As God was on earth. I hear a lot of people say.
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One comes from Alice. Cooper of all people.
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He says when you really figure out, when you come to that point
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in your life, when you really. Realize who Jesus was.
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That's when it changes. Your life faith.
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Becomes a new way of life. It's not just merely a.
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Password or a ticket? To heaven when you get to.
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The pearly Gates. They don't ask.
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You your password, but they if they do.
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You might just mention Jesus. Just just say it.
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It might be a universal. Password but.
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They're not going to ask you that.
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They'll know it already. He'll know it already.
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The other thing that the revelation of the life.
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Of Jesus, which the. Urantia Book presents in 700.
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Pages is that faith becomes a way of life.
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It is just the the. The rule of conduct, ethics,
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mercy and service become central and also natural.
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It becomes natural through the habit of doing.
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Good example of. This is the church.
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Prioritizes feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and
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mentoring the lonely over building wealth so those become
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the important things in a community doing good the.
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Best way to serve the will of God is to do good. #7 is the
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integration of science, philosophy and religion, which
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comprises the Urantia book. The Urantia book shows that
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science, philosophy and religion.
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Are are all three? Aspects of the same.
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Core reality. Mind, matter, spirit.
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And so forth. And it also ends the divide.
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The Urantia book would end the divide between faith and
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science. It.
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It says that technology is good with moral vision, environmental
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and AI ethics. Could be guided by both
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scientific data. And spiritual values.
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Another thing that the Arantia book and I put it on my list is
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number 8 is progressive civilization, Civilizations
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naturally. Evolved toward peace, justice.
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And global unity is citizens grow morally.
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That is, that is. The thing that seems to be
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missing? Everybody's wondering.
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How are we headed? For the future, what kind of
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world are we going to be? What?
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What are people? Going to be like 100 years from
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now, 1000 year. Well, we won't be here, not in
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the way that we can imagine today, unless we grow morally.
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The Urantia book more than once says Destruction, Survival.
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It's your choice. On an individual level and on a
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group level, there's nothing that says that they can't start
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over. With this.
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But if it happens that way. It's not going to be God causing
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a flood, it's going to be us making bad decisions, doing
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things like going to war with nuclear weapons or trashing up
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the entire planet with plastics and, and, and in that regard
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becoming less materialistic. Would be a good.
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Thing #9 service we we need to somehow transition from purely
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profit. To service the.
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Wantingness. The desire.
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To serve others. That is the highest.
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Human duty. That is what the Urantia book
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teaches. People say, well, what?
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Does it teach? Well, it teaches that service.
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Is the highest human. Duty service is the the true.
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Path to greatness. Selfishness.
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Is the root of decay. And if.
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We were to take. In this revelation reverses the
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glorification of greed, strengthens communities, and
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creates an environment of social honor and reward systems.
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Celebrate acts of service. As much as wealth or fame, it's
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it's interesting in the paper on what government is like on
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another planet it. It talks about the idea that
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their society upholds. Loyalty its citizens reward.
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Loyalty. They see that as people that are
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loyal. Servants to the government.
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Or representatives for their. State or national government,
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they don't get. Away with.
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Some of the stuff. We see.
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Are you? See all the infighting going on
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politically. They're they're, they're seeking
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political power. And that is their.
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Their desire. But that's not the way a society
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can't. Be that way.
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Ultimately for the. Good of the people we have to
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have. Representatives and people.
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That get elected that. Do so with honor and integrity.
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And then finally, I think probably the greatest
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pronouncement that the Urantia book makes is cosmic
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citizenship. Now I only speak from my own
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experience, but when I was younger reading the Urantia book
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the. The.
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Idea of there being cosmic of being a a resident of a universe
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as opposed to a small planet. Was it an enormous jump for me
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in in understanding the cosmos I I no longer lived on an island.
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I was now a citizen of the spiritual Kingdom, and as a
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citizen and and as a an. Ambassador, it is up.
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For me or you? Or others who adopt.
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That citizenship that we. Hold ourselves to a higher
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standard, we hold ourselves to a higher power, and we.
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Recognize that we are being judged.
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By how we behave. Especially when you're given
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the. Truth to he Who.
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Has been given much much as. Expected.
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So we should probably just take a little bit of a break, just a
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little. Bit of a music interlude again,
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and then I'll come back and I want to talk a little bit about
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my interview with Howard Katzen, which you can listen to on the
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stream live icon on urantiaradio.org.
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And we'll get to that a little. Bit because I have some thoughts
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about that and then also. Let's talk about let's.
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Talk about compatibility of Christianity based on the
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teachings of the Urantia book. O hang on just for a few
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seconds. We'll be right back.
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I wanted to talk about and I will talk about it maybe in the
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next episode about the 10 commandments.
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I've been doing some thinking about the 10 commandments and I
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wanted. To trace back.
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Where they came from and what I came up with based on the
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Urantia book I believe and somebody please correct me.
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Go to yourranchoradio.org or e-mail me at
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urantiabookradio@gmail.com. I believe that the that.
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What were the Dalmatian commandments which later became
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the Supreme commandments? Of of the 1st.
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Garden and the second garden with Adam and Eve.
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And then we had. The the School of.
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Melchizedek and what he. Taught his disciples.
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And they were sort of more or less like the commandments, but
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they have all a running theme. And then of course, what we're
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left with today in the modern age is this 10 commandments from
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Moses going back to Exodus receiving these commandments.
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It's a great story. It's a great story and it's a
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story. That unfortunately, the world
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does not know about and in the next.
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Episode. I'll spend a little bit of time
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on it. I think that they.
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Can be traced back. To the Veranda Deck Suns and
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I'll just leave it there, OK, because I don't want to spoil
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it. Another thought that had
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occurred to me because. You've if you've.
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Listened to these podcasts, you know that I consider myself a
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new Christian and I don't know, maybe I, I identified, explained
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what that means, but to me, a new Christian.
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Who is it? Halverson, Chris Halverson, who
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is in in the study groups and a huge longtime reader and
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influencer in the Urantia movement.
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One quote I heard. Him say is that?
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People have a tendency to pour new wine into old wineskins,
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meaning we take revelation and we immediately try to make it.
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Adapt to our. Previous conceptions.
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Of what? Our religious.
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Faith is, and I've done that with the Urantia book.
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I I grew up a Christian. My mom occasionally would make
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us go to school, I mean go to church, and we had a good time
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and all that. And I learned enough so that
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later in life, when I was searching for meaning and value,
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it was natural for me to draw upon the well of my Christian
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upbringing and when the Urantia book was introduced into my
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life. I was able to because of the
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soil. Of Christianity, the seeds of
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the Urantia. Book were able to sprout rather
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quickly, but. The the thing that makes that
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important, which I'll. Address is that.
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Christianity versus other worlds religions or or.
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Creeds is. Not all that compatible.
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For example, Islam is not really compatible with Christianity.
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It has some similarities and, but they're not.
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If you ask it typically, it'd be rare for.
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You to find someone who is deeply Islamic to ever switch to
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Christianity. Unless, of course, Christ came
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into his heart and there was some circumstance I could see.
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That. Communism is not compatible with
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Christianity in many. Ways the LGBTQ.
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Agenda is not compatible with Christianity, especially since
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they've. Decided to strike a.
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War against traditional family which is compatible with
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Christianity? Christianity is more compatible.
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With the Jewish faith, except for.
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The personality of Christ and his divinity.
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Globalism is not even compatible with Christianity, although you
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would think in extrapolating some of the truths from the
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Urantia book that it might be. But it really isn't, because
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globalism lends itself to centralized power and
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centralized power unless it's the most highs of Edentia or if
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it's a planetary Prince. Or Jesus himself, globalism.
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Will not work if it's managed by men, of that I am convinced,
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even though that might not. Be 1000.
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Years from now. Maybe if we.
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Become more morally fragrant. It's possible, but for right
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now, the way globalism is set up, it's more about control and
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power. Than it is about love of God or
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the the spiritual truths. So what's compatible with?
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Christianity. Well, I already mentioned one
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strong family. Is the bedrock of a truly
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advanced society. If you read the.
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Papers on marriage and family life you understand that the
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revelators were telling us that this is.
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The way it works. You get the sense that every
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evolutionary. World that's out there abides by
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eventually they get to where they.
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Learn that family and fidelity. Is the best possible.
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Environment for raising children.
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Who grew up to be loyal, trustworthy and ethical.
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If you look at children today and you look at the divorce rate
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and the broken families, you understand that.
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It is. Because marriage and family are
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on, on, on. Trial that we.
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Have so much unsettledness in our societies.
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Particularly Western societies. Faith.
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In in core moral principles and service to a personal deity
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produces strong character and stable leadership.
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The revelators tell us, tell us this.
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Christianity tells us this. Moral behavior is the.
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Foundation of a stable. Society.
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That's what the Urantia book teaches.
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It lessens almost every. Social I'll that is destructive
27:42
to the social order. And people are happier.
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And more productive. I just saw a.
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Report today. Maybe it was Jordan Peterson.
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Somebody had said that. If you look at all the societies
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that are best. Based on Christian principles,
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they more often. Do better, there's less.
27:58
Poverty. There's less sickness than in
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non Christian countries. Forgiveness is.
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The basis of the Golden Rule, The Urantia.
28:08
Book teaches and this is compatible with Christianity in
28:11
fact. It's the bedrock of of Jesus's
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teachings, the golden. Rule the most important tenet in
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Christian thought. You do not have to be a
28:19
Christian in order to reap the benefits of a.
28:23
Christian LED social order. And that includes pluralism.
28:28
Because people express their. Religions differently, even I as
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a urantia. Book reader should be allowed.
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To express my my faith in the Urantia book and the and the
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teachings and I am for the most part in this society that would
28:43
not be true if I went to. Saudi Arabia or Qatar?
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Or or even China if I had the Urantia book and they knew what?
28:52
It was. I'd be.
28:53
I'd either be kicked out or I'd be.
28:55
Imprisoned Christianity promotes the the honoring of parents and
29:00
elders, a principle which ensures wisdom of experience
29:05
from and it passes it on from generation to generation that
29:08
those are Christian principles and those are Urantian principle
29:12
principles. The 10 commandments come from
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spiritual enlightenment and only in a moral.
29:19
Society would reject. Them and that's why we're seeing
29:22
the pushback. Today and for all these.
29:26
Reasons and any and many more. Many, many of the tenets of
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Western civilization are rooted in four great influences.
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The Hebrew faith Greek. Philosophy rooted in morality,
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being a good citizen, Roman law. Which provides order.
29:42
Christian Teachings. Which leads to service.
29:45
And declares the dignity of the human spirit in the modern age
29:50
and after almost 5000 years of evolutionary growth, it becomes
29:54
apparent that. Society that serves.
29:56
In the interest. Of the people.
29:58
The most effectively are rooted in Christian thought.
30:03
The lesson here is if you want. To have the best possible.
30:06
Society adopting Christian principles.
30:09
Offers you the. Best chance of success?
30:12
It's not even a matter of faith, it's a matter of evidence.
30:16
A simple observation is made that societies.
30:19
That are the least. Christian suffer the most
30:22
problems and then you ask well. Why is why is the West?
30:28
Going through looks like birth pangs right now.
30:31
Why is the West crumbling? Well, it's because our culture
30:35
is. Becoming less Christian and more
30:38
materialistic. Less people identify.
30:42
As being Christian in western society that at any time in the
30:45
last 300 years. Suicide levels are up.
30:50
Every developed country if you look at them now.
30:53
Has the highest level of suicide ever.
30:59
I also want to make the connective tissue between the
31:01
Urantia book and Christianity because of.
31:04
All of the world. Religions.
31:06
The one that the Urantia book refers to the most and runs
31:10
parallel 2. And traces its roots back
31:14
through. The New and the Old Testament.
31:18
So just as Christ was the. Revelation that spawned the
31:21
Christian teachings If if the Urantia book is claiming to be
31:27
an epical revelation, it is connecting itself.
31:31
To the. Previous revelations, that being
31:33
Christ, that being. Melchizedek, who taught Abraham,
31:37
the father of the Hebrew faith or the Jewish faith, back to
31:41
the. Days of Adam and Eve, which
31:42
itself finds it. It's story.
31:45
Woven into the Old and New Testament and is referred.
31:49
To by the prophets. Going back even before that to
31:52
the days of Dalmatia and the beginnings of civilization, way
31:57
back when, when there were giants in those days.
32:01
Again, a reference in the Bible that connects itself.
32:05
To the first epical. Revelation, which was the
32:09
arrival of the 100. I always like to remind myself
32:13
that ask the average person, where did the name Lake Van come
32:18
from? Go on, look, look at it on
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Chachi PT, there's the connective tissue.
32:25
So the Urantia book, in my opinion, was made.
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For people who are rooted in. Christian thought, just like the
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New Testament, connected. Itself to the old.
32:36
Testament as a continuation of the revelatory story, and so
32:41
here. We are and so.
32:42
I think that because. Of that we will see that.
32:45
Eventually, Christians will pick up the Urantia book and they'll.
32:50
Understand that this is. This is how.
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Christianity can. Thrive because of all.
32:55
The things that we've talked about in this episode, and I
32:58
hope I haven't said too much, it's not my intention to say too
33:01
much. They say you.
33:03
Should leave the audience wanting more.
33:05
So let's, let's hope. I can achieve that.
33:08
Maybe I'll achieve. It with really.
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Good music from David Dinger. It's a good start.
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I hope you've enjoyed this episode.
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I know we've. Covered a lot.
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And we'll talk about my Halbert. If you want to hear the
33:21
interview, it's up on your Rancher radio.
33:23
Dot org. Just looking for the live stream
33:26
on the menu bar and playing a bunch of old interviews and
33:30
you'll hear the conversation that I had with Halbert about a
33:33
very interesting thing that took.
33:35
Place at a high. School recently in.
33:37
Chicago. So we'll see.
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You on the next edition of the Urantia Radio Podcast.