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The Power of Faith - How Jesus Healed · Urantia Radio

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Well, it's spring and it feels different.
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Feels great. Feels like we got through a
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winter of uncertainty. Perhaps.
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Maybe there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
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It's good to have you here. On the Rancho Radio podcast, we
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talked about the 5th epical Revelation because it's so
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important. It's the biggest secret out in
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the open in the last, I don't know, I don't know, couple
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thousand years maybe. And we're really getting into it
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and I am encouraged by all the discussion going on in social
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media. It's a lot of deep discussion
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going on. If you follow it, we have some
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of it. We're going to read actually
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from Paper 149. And so there's another section
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of the book which talks about the miracles of Christ, because
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this is the second preaching tour that's underway in my mind,
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it really opens up the door to the the question of faith.
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So this this segment, this episode is really about the
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power of faith. So let me read from this paper
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and again, it's 149 Section 1. And then we'll stop along the
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way and and get your opinion and I'll share some of my insights.
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It reads. By the time the camp at Beseda
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had been broken up, the fame of Jesus, particularly as a healer,
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had spread to all parts of Palestine and through all of
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Syria and the surrounding countries.
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For weeks after they left Beseda, the sick continued to
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arrive and when they did not find the Master, they would go
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in search of him. On this tour, Jesus did not
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deliberately perform any so-called miracles of healing.
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Nevertheless, scores of afflicted found restoration of
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health and happiness as a result of the reconstructive power of
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the intense faith which impelled them to seek for healing.
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The reconstructive power of faith?
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Hang on to that for a little bit.
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Quote. There began to appear about the
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time of this mission and continue throughout the
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remainder of Jesus's life on earth, a peculiar and
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unexplained series of healing phenomena.
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In the course of this three months tour, more than 100 men,
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women and children from Judea, Adumia, Galilee, Syria, Tyre and
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Sudan and from beyond the Jordan were beneficiaries of this
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unconscious healing by Jesus returning to their homes, added
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to the enlargement of Jesus's fame.
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And this they did, notwithstanding that Jesus
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would, every time he observed one of these cases of
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spontaneous healing, directly charge the beneficiary.
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To quote, tell no man. It was never revealed to us just
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what occurred in these cases of spontaneous or unconscious
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healing. The Master never explained to
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His apostles how these healings were affected, other than on one
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occasion He remarked when touched by an ailing child.
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I perceive that life has gone forth from me.
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Quote. In the absence of direct word
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from the Master regarding the nature, it would be permissible
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to record our opinion that, being the revelators of such
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healing phenomena. We believe that many of these
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apparent miracles of healing were the result of the
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coexistence of the following three powerful, potent and
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associated influences #1 the presence of strong, dominant and
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living faith in the hearts of the human beings who
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persistently sought healing. Together with the fact that such
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healing was desired for the spiritual benefits rather than
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for purely physical restoration #2 the existence of the great
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sympathy and compassion of the Incarnated and mercy dominated
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Creator, Son of God, who actually possessed the unlimited
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and timeless creative healing powers and prerogatives. 3 Along
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with the faith of the creature and the life of the Creator, it
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should also be noted that this God Man was the personified
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expression of the Father's will. If in the contact of the human
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need and the divine power to meet it, the Father did not
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will, otherwise the two became one, and the healing occurred
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unconsciously to the human Jesus, but was immediately
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recognized by His divine nature. Many of these cases of healings
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must be found in a great law which has long been known to us,
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namely what the Creator's Son desires and the Eternal Father
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wills is, and they write quote in the personal presence of
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Jesus. Certain forms of profound human
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faith were literally and truly compelling in the manifestation
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of healing. Many others sought healing for
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holy, selfish purposes. They write.
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For example, a rich widow of Tyre continued to offer more and
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more money to Jesus, as if the power of God were something to
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be purchased by the highest bidder.
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But never would she become interested in the gospel of the
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Kingdom. It was only the cure of her
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physical ailments that she sought.
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And that paragraph speaks to motives.
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The rich widow wanted to be healed, but her motive was
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self-centered and had little to do with spiritual desire.
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By the way, in the Urantia book, the word faith appears 750 times
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Quote. Only the personal experience of
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the faith sons of the Heavenly Father can affect the actual
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spiritual realization of the personality of God.
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End Quote. In another quote, it says in its
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true essence, religion is a faith, trust in the goodness of
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God. God could be great and absolute,
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somehow even intelligent and personal and philosophy.
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But in religion, God must also be moral.
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It must also be good. The entire experience of
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adjuster or spirit communion is 1 involving moral status, mental
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motivation, and spiritual experience as pertains to mortal
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minds. Among the mortals everywhere is
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this. We are also told mind alone
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cannot survive mortal death without spirit.
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Mortal mind without immortal spirit cannot survive.
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They say the mind of man is mortal.
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Only the bestowed spirit is immortal.
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That statement literally means that your faith does save you
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from material cessation. It does save you from mortal
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death. Faith.
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How many times did we hear from even Melchizedek who taught
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Abraham by your faith you are saved.
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In the Bible and churches everywhere they tell us it is
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your faith in God that saves you.
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Jesus said that many times to his apostles and his followers.
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It is your faith that saves you. And faith, what do they refer to
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it? Before reconstructive power,
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It's tapping into spiritual energy.
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So we've looked at Jesus's miracles and how faith is an
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adjutant factor, and we've also differentiated between mind and
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spirit and how faith connects the two.
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Faith is a willful act of the mortal mind in willing
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partnership with the Spirit to join in that eternal adventure.
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And I sort of think of it as wings.
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Faith are wings. It allows the eagle to soar just
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like the faith of a man makes it possible for the miracle of
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Jesus to have healed them. We, we spent a little bit of
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time on on faith. And I also want to give
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attention to something that's kind of new to this program.
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We haven't done it a long time, but with all of the different
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conversations that are going on in social media, and that's what
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they really are. They're they're conversations.
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I want to roll out a couple of interesting conversations that
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caught my eye. And here this week, here's one
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from author Eric Metaxas. I I know Eric, I've worked with
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him briefly and he's a great writer, great Christian, always
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has interesting things to say. And he's interviewing A
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theologian about Adam and Eve. Take a listen.
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Adam and Eve, what's your best guess when they were alive?
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Well, the best scientific date we got is 150,000 years ago
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±100,000 years. We don't have a really good It's
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because there's no radioisotope clock between 50,000 years ago
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and 250,000 years ago. We have to use indirect methods
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and often in the literature they give you the statistical error,
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but they don't give you the systematic error, which could
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shift things by 50,000 years up or down.
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So I actually argue we get a more accurate date from the
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Bible than we get from the scientific evidence.
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And we also get more of an accurate date from the Urantia
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book than from the Bible because they put it at about where he
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pegs it around 50,000 years ago. Actually, the Urantia book says
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about 40,000 years ago, that's when Adam and Eve arrived.
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They were the third epical revelation of revelatory truth.
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And their blood survives in most of humanity, probably all of
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humanity on some level. So they are still a big
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contributing factor to our, maybe not as much as our
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spiritual development, but certainly our intellectual
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development. OK, here's an interesting one
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for those of you who listen to Tucker Carlson.
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This is him having a discussion about the Nephilim.
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You ever had conversations about the mighty men of old, men of
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old mentioned in the Bible and the giants of those days
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mentioned in Genesis? So there's still the question of
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not only who were the Nephilim, but what were the Nephilim?
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And here's a little interesting conversation.
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And then I'll give you a Uranti book footnote at the end of
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this, because we know, of course, hold on, here we go.
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The Nephilim, as described in Genesis 6, this race of giant
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people who are hybrid between the spirit world and the human
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world, and they're the reason that God sent the flood.
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This is all described in Genesis.
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They were giants. The claim from some people is
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that's actually real, and the fossil record proves it's real
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because giant bones, human bones, have been found through
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the years and that some or a lot of them wind up with the
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Smithsonian where their existence was suppressed.
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Yes. You're saying there's actually
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documentary evidence that that may be true?
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Yes, there's documentary evidence that Smithsonian has
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received bones and large coffins from that that long ago.
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We're talking maybe the 50s or 60s.
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And there was one case where the Smithsonian said we did receive
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the bones, but we don't know where they are.
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Well, if you received human bones that were larger than any
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human bones ever described in literature ever, other than
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Genesis 6. Kind of a big story.
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And you see that story repeated over and over again, especially
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in America, for hundreds of years.
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OK, so here the quote from 77, Section 2, paragraph three of
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the Urantia book where it tells us specifically who the Nephilim
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are. And you can take this to the
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bank, share it with all your Christian friends if you ever
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get into an interesting conversation.
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And Tucker Carlson, if you happen to perchance be listening
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to this podcast, you can find what I'm reading in paper 77
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from the Urantia book where it talks about the post rebellion
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era on Urantia. This is after the fall of the
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Calagasia 100. And while I'm not sure about
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this, I, I tend to believe that the Anunnaki were probably
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descendants of the 100. And and the reason for that is
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because the root word of Anunnaki were the Anon, which
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means 1. And I relate that to the 100.
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And we know the 100 went on after the rebellion, after
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Kalagastia, you know, threw in his lot with Lucifer and Satan.
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And this was what 250,000 years ago when there was war in
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heaven? And the result of that is
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described in paper 77 of the Urantia book.
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The post rebellion era on Urantia witnessed many unusual
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happenings. A great civilization, the
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culture of the Dalmatia was going to pieces, the Nephilim.
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And they specifically used the word Nephilim.
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And then in parentheses they write the Nodites, which is
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derivative of the land of Nod from Genesis, where Cain is
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banished, to the land of Nod where the Nephilim live.
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Where on earth in those days and when these sons of gods went
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into the daughters of men and they bore them children, their
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children were the mighty men of old, the descendants of the
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Nephilim, the men of renown. And while hardly the sons of
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God, the staff and their early descendants were so regarded,
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regarded by the evolutionary mortals of those distant days.
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Interesting. A pastor is asked.
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This is one of my favorites that I've seen recently.
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What is God? Can you explain that to me?
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I am confused being philosophically consistent and
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being very honest person. I'm sure you can tell me where
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God came from. Please try to clarify how you
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can figure that a spiritual force can have an impact on a
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material universe to create it. All right, your question, where
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did God come from? Assumes that you're thinking of
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the wrong. Obviously it displays that
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you're thinking of the wrong God because the God of the Bible is
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not affected by time, space, or matter.
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If he's, if he's affected by time, space, or matter, he's not
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God. Time, space, and matter is what
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we call a continuum. All of them have to come into
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existence at the same instant. Because if there were a matter
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but no space, where would you put it?
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If there were a matter in space but no time, when would you put
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it? You cannot have time, space, or
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matter independently. They have to come into existence
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simultaneously. The Bible answers that in 10
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words. In the beginning, there's time.
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God created the heaven, space, and the earth.
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There's matter, so you have time, space.
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Matter created a Trinity of trinities there.
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Just as you know, time is past, present, future.
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Space has length, width, height. Matter has solid, liquid gas.
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You have a Trinity of trinities created instantaneously, and the
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God who created them has to be outside of them.
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If he's limited by time, he's not God.
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The guy who created this computer is not in the computer.
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He's not running around and they're changing the numbers on
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the screen. OK, the God who created this
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universe is outside of the universe.
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He's above it, beyond it, in it, through it.
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He's he's unaffected by it. So for and the I the concept
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that of a spiritual force cannot have any effect on a material
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body. Well, then I guess you'd have to
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explain to me things like emotions and love and hatred and
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envy and jealousy and and rationality.
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I mean if your brain is just a random collection of chemicals
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that form by chance over billions of years, how on earth
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can you trust your own reasoning processes and the thoughts that
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you you think? OK so your your question where
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did God come from is assuming a limited God and that's your
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problem. The God that I worship is not
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limited by time, space, or matter.
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If I could fit the infinite God in my 3 LB brain he would not be
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worth worshipping that's for certain.
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So that's the God that I worship.
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Thank you. That's a good good and you know,
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if anyone a good starting place for the rancher book.
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I've always, I believe, were the first five papers if you if you
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if that part grabs you, then the rest of the book is pure joy and
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from paper 2, Section 1, dovetailing on what this pastor
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just said quote how pure and beautiful, how deep and
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unfathomable is the supernal ancestor of all things.
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The Infinite is most excellent in that He imparts himself to
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men, is the beginning and the end, the Father of every good
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and perfect purpose. With God all things are
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possible. The Eternal Creator is the cause
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of causes. He stands outside of time,
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space. He is the creator of time and
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space and matter as well. Last note.
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This I found to be inspiring. Trust God.
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Trust where you're being pulled. Trust what you're being asked to
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let go of. It's not the faint of heart that
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follow this narrow path. It's the courageous soldier that
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knows that God is going to work through you and impact many,
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many people on this planet. So stay focused.
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Stay on this narrow path. You're deeply, deeply loved.
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Say, if you like what you're hearing on this podcast, the
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And that's it for this episode. We'll see you again here on the
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Rancho Radio Podcast where we celebrate the 5th epical
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revelation. Music.