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I'd like to meet:

I desire maturity of attitude and integrity of mind in a lifemate. Loving kindness, grace and sensitivity, a charitable heart, are far more of a turn-on to me than anything else.

I am hopeful for the development of a genuine, loving, lifetime connection with a man who has a profound, personal respect and reverence for his life as a divine gift. He would preferably but not necessarily be HIV negative, a non-smoker of *anything,* and does not do drugs.
He would value supremely the honest striving to strike the chords of truth. He would recognize that there is more to reality than can possibly be known in one human lifetime, but is nevertheless constrained to know more of it in full recognition that such is his birthright.
He would have arrived at a place of compassion for the human condition.

Please send Mayor Sanders your note of support and encouragement for his awesome and courageous stand for justice and righteousness which he took on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007, by announcing that he would sign a resolution passed by San Diego's City Council that will add the 'voice' of the city of San Diego to the growing crescendo calling upon the California State Supreme Court to strike down the ban on gay marriage. Let him know that you are out there as one who will forever be grateful for his valiant part in the launching of our society into its inevitable enlightened future. May he not falter or allow himself to be deterred, but rather sail forth into the seas of moral victory, truly following the Spirit as he has this week to wherever it may lead.

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The Urantia Book purports to be a major new revelation of epochal proportion restoring lost information about our world, known in heaven by the name, "Urantia." The Urantia Book purports to disclose the affairs of the spiritual realms of the Heavens and restates the true gospel OF Jesus of Nazareth, son/daughtership with God by faith. This fifth Urantia revelation claims to coordinate planetary knowledge, sort and censor evolutionary theology, restore lost religious, social, and geophysical history, and reveal the nature of true religion and the true nature and character of God as these are illuminated by the restatement of the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

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BIRDS EVOLVED FROM DINOSAURS

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In the Urantia Book, (c. 1955) PAPER 60, Section 3:

URANTIA DURING THE EARLY LAND-LIFE ERA :

60:3.20 60,000,000 years ago, though the land reptiles were on the decline, the dinosaurs continued as monarchs of the land, the lead now being taken by the more agile and active types of the smaller leaping kangaroo varieties of the carnivorous dinosaurs. But some time previously there had appeared new types of the herbivorous dinosaurs, whose rapid increase was due to the appearance of the grass family of land plants. One of these new grass-eating dinosaurs was a true quadruped having two horns and a capelike shoulder flange. The land type of turtle, twenty feet across, appeared as did also the modern crocodile and true snakes of the modern type. Great changes were also occurring among the fishes and other forms of marine life.

60:3.21 The wading and swimming prebirds of earlier ages had not been a success in the air, nor had the flying dinosaurs. They were a short-lived species, soon becoming extinct. They, too, were subject to the dinosaur doom, destruction, because of having too little brain substance in comparison with body size. This second attempt to produce animals that could navigate the atmosphere failed, as did the abortive attempt to produce mammals during this and a preceding age.

60:3.22 55,000,000 years ago the evolutionary march was marked by the sudden appearance of the first of the true birds, a small pigeonlike creature which was the ancestor of all bird life. This was the third type of flying creature to appear on earth, and it sprang directly from the reptilian group, not from the contemporary flying dinosaurs nor from the earlier types of toothed land birds. And so this becomes known as the age of birds as well as the declining age of reptiles.

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Paper 189
THE RESURRECTION

Golgotha, Judea
April 9, 30 A.D.
Sunday
3:02 A.M.

Section 2

MEANING OF THE DEATH ON THE CROSS

Although Jesus did not die this death on the cross to atone for the racial guilt of mortal man nor to provide some sort of effective approach to an otherwise offended and unforgiving God; even though the Son of Man did not offer himself as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of God and to open the way for sinful man to obtain salvation; notwithstanding that these ideas of atonement and propitiation are erroneous, nonetheless, there are significances attached to this death of Jesus on the cross which should not be overlooked. It is a fact that Urantia has become known among other neighboring inhabited planets as the "World of the Cross."

Jesus desired to live a full mortal life in the flesh on Urantia. Death is, ordinarily, a part of life. Death is the last act in the mortal drama. In your well-meant efforts to escape the superstitious errors of the false interpretation of the meaning of the death on the cross, you should be careful not to make the great mistake of failing to perceive the true significance and the genuine import of the Master's death.

Mortal man was never the property of the archdeceivers. Jesus did not die to ransom man from the clutch of the apostate rulers and fallen princes of the spheres. The Father in heaven never conceived of such crass injustice as damning a mortal soul because of the evildoing of his ancestors. Neither was the Master's death on the cross a sacrifice which consisted in an effort to pay God a debt which the race of mankind had come to owe him.

Before Jesus lived on earth, you might possibly have been justified in believing in such a God, but not since the Master lived and died among your fellow mortals. Moses taught the dignity and justice of a Creator God; but Jesus portrayed the love and mercy of a heavenly Father.

The animal nature—the tendency toward evil-doing—may be hereditary, but sin is not transmitted from parent to child. Sin is the act of conscious and deliberate rebellion against the Father's will and the Sons' laws by an individual will creature.

Jesus lived and died for a whole universe, not just for the races of this one world. While the mortals of the realms had salvation even before Jesus lived and died on Urantia, it is nevertheless a fact that his bestowal on this world greatly illuminated the way of salvation; his death did much to make forever plain the certainty of mortal survival after death in the flesh.

Though it is hardly proper to speak of Jesus as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a redeemer, it is wholly correct to refer to him as a savior. He forever made the way of salvation (survival) more clear and certain; he did better and more surely show the way of salvation for all the mortals of all the worlds of the universe of Nebadon.

When once you grasp the idea of God as a true and loving Father, the only concept which Jesus ever taught, you must forthwith, in all consistency, utterly abandon all those primitive notions about God as an offended monarch, a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately punished, unless some being almost equal to himself should volunteer to suffer for them, to die as a substitute and in their stead. The whole idea of ransom and atonement is incompatible with the concept of God as it was taught and exemplified by Jesus of Nazareth. The infinite love of God is not secondary to anything in the divine nature.

All this concept of atonement and sacrificial salvation is rooted and grounded in selfishness. Jesus taught that service to one's fellows is the highest concept of the brotherhood of spirit believers. Salvation should be taken for granted by those who believe in the fatherhood of God. The believer's chief concern should not be the selfish desire for personal salvation but rather the unselfish urge to love and, therefore, serve one's fellows even as Jesus loved and served mortal men.

Neither do genuine believers trouble themselves so much about the future punishment of sin. The real believer is only concerned about present separation from God. True, wise fathers may chasten their sons, but they do all this in love and for corrective purposes. They do not punish in anger, neither do they chastise in retribution.

Even if God were the stern and legal monarch of a universe in which justice ruled supreme, he certainly would not be satisfied with the childish scheme of substituting an innocent sufferer for a guilty offender.

The great thing about the death of Jesus, as it is related to the enrichment of human experience and the enlargement of the way of salvation, is not the fact of his death but rather the superb manner and the matchless spirit in which he met death.

This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a plane of unreality; such a concept is purely philosophic. Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may be grasped by the creature's faith and thereby become incorporated into individual human experience: the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be "forgiven your debts, even as you forgive your debtors."

LESSONS FROM THE CROSS

The cross of Jesus portrays the full measure of the supreme devotion of the true shepherd for even the unworthy members of his flock. It forever places all relations between God and man upon the family basis. God is the Father; man is his son. Love, the love of a father for his son, becomes the central truth in the universe relations of Creator and creature—not the justice of a king which seeks satisfaction in the sufferings and punishment of the evil-doing subject.

The cross forever shows that the attitude of Jesus toward sinners was neither condemnation nor condonation, but rather eternal and loving salvation. Jesus is truly a savior in the sense that his life and death do win men over to goodness and righteous survival. Jesus loves men so much that his love awakens the response of love in the human heart. Love is truly contagious and eternally creative. Jesus' death on the cross exemplifies a love which is sufficiently strong and divine to forgive sin and swallow up all evil-doing. Jesus disclosed to this world a higher quality of righteousness than justice—mere technical right and wrong. Divine love does not merely forgive wrongs; it absorbs and actually destroys them. The forgiveness of love utterly transcends the forgiveness of mercy. Mercy sets the guilt of evil-doing to one side; but love destroys forever the sin and all weakness resulting therefrom. Jesus brought a new method of living to Urantia. He taught us not to resist evil but to find through him a goodness which effectually destroys evil. The forgiveness of Jesus is not condonation; it is salvation from condemnation. Salvation does not slight wrongs; it makes them right. True love does not compromise nor condone hate; it destroys it. The love of Jesus is never satisfied with mere forgiveness. The Master's love implies rehabilitation, eternal survival. It is altogether proper to speak of salvation as redemption if you mean this eternal rehabilitation.

Jesus, by the power of his personal love for men, could break the hold of sin and evil. He thereby set men free to choose better ways of living. Jesus portrayed a deliverance from the past which in itself promised a triumph for the future. Forgiveness thus provided salvation. The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil.

The sufferings of Jesus were not confined to the crucifixion. In reality, Jesus of Nazareth spent upward of twenty-five years on the cross of a real and intense mortal existence. The real value of the cross consists in the fact that it was the supreme and final expression of his love, the completed revelation of his mercy.

On millions of inhabited worlds, tens of trillions of evolving creatures who may have been tempted to give up the moral struggle and abandon the good fight of faith, have taken one more look at Jesus on the cross and then have forged on ahead, inspired by the sight of God's laying down his incarnate life in devotion to the unselfish service of man.

The triumph of the death on the cross is all summed up in the spirit of Jesus' attitude toward those who assailed him. He made the cross an eternal symbol of the triumph of love over hate and the victory of truth over evil when he prayed, " Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. " That devotion of love was contagious throughout a vast universe; the disciples caught it from their Master. The very first teacher of his gospel who was called upon to lay down his life in this service, said, as they stoned him to death, "Lay not this sin to their charge."

The cross makes a supreme appeal to the best in man because it discloses one who was willing to lay down his life in the service of his fellow men. Greater love no man can have than this: that he would be willing to lay down his life for his friends—and Jesus had such a love that he was willing to lay down his life for his enemies, a love greater than any which had hitherto been known on earth.

On other worlds, as well as on Urantia, this sublime spectacle of the death of the human Jesus on the cross of Golgotha has stirred the emotions of mortals, while it has aroused the highest devotion of the angels.

The cross is that high symbol of sacred service, the devotion of one's life to the welfare and salvation of one's fellows. The cross is not the symbol of the sacrifice of the innocent Son of God in the place of guilty sinners and in order to appease the wrath of an offended God, but it does stand forever, on earth and throughout a vast universe, as a sacred symbol of the good bestowing themselves upon the evil and thereby saving them by this very devotion of love. The cross does stand as the token of the highest form of unselfish service, the supreme devotion of the full bestowal of a righteous life in the service of wholehearted ministry, even in death, the death of the cross. And the very sight of this great symbol of the bestowal life of Jesus truly inspires all of us to want to go and do likewise.

When thinking men and women look upon Jesus as he offers up his life on the cross, they will hardly again permit themselves to complain at even the severest hardships of life, much less at petty harassments and their many purely fictitious grievances. His life was so glorious and his death so triumphant that we are all enticed to a willingness to share both. There is true drawing power in the whole bestowal of Michael, from the days of his youth to this overwhelming spectacle of his death on the cross.

Make sure, then, that when you view the cross as a revelation of God, you do not look with the eyes of the primitive man nor with the viewpoint of the later barbarian, both of whom regarded God as a relentless Sovereign of stern justice and rigid law-enforcement. Rather, make sure that you see in the cross the final manifestation of the love and devotion of Jesus to his life mission of bestowal upon the mortal races of his vast universe. See in the death of the Son of Man the climax of the unfolding of the Father's divine love for his sons of the mortal spheres. The cross thus portrays the devotion of willing affection and the bestowal of voluntary salvation upon those who are willing to receive such gifts and devotion. There was nothing in the cross which the Father required—only that which Jesus so willingly gave, and which he refused to avoid.

If man cannot otherwise appreciate Jesus and understand the meaning of his bestowal on earth, he can at least comprehend the fellowship of his mortal sufferings. No man can ever fear that the Creator does not know the nature or extent of his temporal afflictions.

We know that the death on the cross was not to effect man's reconciliation to God but to stimulate man's realization of the Father's eternal love and his Son's unending mercy, and to broadcast these universal truths to a whole universe.

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ISLAM - A Reality Check
This section will be dedicated to the real-life "movie" that is playing out before our very eyes: The evolving Clash between Fundamentalist Islam and all that exists outside of it.

For too long, nearly 1,400 years, this ideology has gone largely unchecked, not just by the Western World but even by many Muslims who have aligned themselves with it out of the sheer weight of tradition. However, it is more than merely the influence of tradition that perpetuates Fundamentalist Islam, it's what that tradition embraces: intimidation, misogyny, threats and punishment. The very inclination to explore and question the rationale and logic of the teachings written in its sacred book is stifled by fear, which itself is then placed in high regard as a sign of appropriate piety.

The world's peoples could never hope to achieve intellectual uniformity on religious matters. Varying religious ideology is inevitable, and advancing Democracy must always make allowance for such variances.

However, when one man's religious ideology constitutes a threat to another man's well-being, even to his life, then moral righteousness demands an intervention. If human vanguards of goodness and righteousness who value spirit unity among the world's religionists are compelled to step in to defend the right of existence of peace-loving detractors against the genocidal acts of zealots who are propelled by grossly misguided and tradition-bound religious ideology, how much more foreseeing, prepared, and responsive are the many orders of Spirit Vanguards, whose role it is to safeguard and nurture the progress of human civilization on the planet, to provide an adequate compass to a struggling humanity that should eventually find itself floundering in an ideological quagmire?

Such a compass has existed on our planet since 1936, and has been spreading quietly from person-to-person as the text of the Urantia Book since it was first published in 1955. The time may well be approaching in the course of our planet's history when this compass may become significant upon the main stage of world affairs.

The time definitely has arrived for the emperor to be outed for the clothes he is not wearing. The security of the "Western World" depends upon it.

To start with, please read my blog post:

The Ultimate Solution to the Middle East Crisis

Listen to and read along what the Urantia Book says on the continued social and political evolution of human civilization and on the matter of political and religious Sovereignty. Bear in mind that in spite of bearing on the present-day and on the future, the writing was derived prior to World War II:

Sovereignty - Divine and Human

"There can be no lasting religious peace on Urantia until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty."

"Only when God the Father becomes supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth."

"Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men."

"This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the special benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a "chosen people." The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of all men and for the greatest length of time." P. 1487-88 - The Urantia Book

John Quincy Adams,
6th President of the United States,
understood and wrote about
Islam and "Jihad."

John Quincy Adams on Jihad

Watch the 16-minute movie, "Fitna," by Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party of Denmark, just released on Thursday, March 27th, 2008, about the Qu'ran and Fundamentalist Islam:

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Islamic Fundamentalist Reality Check

Everything you've always wanted to know about Islam but were afraid to ask. The feature documentary, "Islam: What the West Needs to Know," discovers the basis of Muslim violence in the Qur'an and the life of Muhammed.
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"Islam: What the West Needs to Know"

"Culture in Iraq is under Exile"

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WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR ???

The now particularly timely yet under-reported documentary that was first released to the home video market onNovember 14, 2006 and aired on PBS in May, 2008. Why didn't mainstream media/T.V news networks pick it up?

People-power and the revolutionary accessibility of videos on the web are bringing this critical revelation to usall, but why didn't it get widespread fanfare at its debut?

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The Urantia Book affirms the evolutionary human ascent from Primates and that, from nearly 38,000 years ago, our planet's races began to receive the superhuman genetic infusion by two divine beings, an "Adam and Eve" couple and their progeny, who were brought to our world from their heavenly place , their genetically superior bodies created for them, to live in a 'Garden,' a vast area that had been prepared in advance of their arrival upon a land mass that was once attached by 27 miles to the Syrian coast. This was the site of the *first* Garden of Eden , and it sank approx. 33,800 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean Sea .
Robert Sarmast, a long-time Urantia Book reader, is among many who believe this event gave rise to the ancient legend of "Atlantis," as recorded by Plato in 360 B.C.
Of particular note is the natural mound clearly mapped by side-scan sonar during Sarmast's first expedition. Its unusually defined characteristics may well indicate it is the same naturally-occuring mound that had been enlarged and accentuated for the reception of the Adamic pair .
In the third-season premiere of "Digging for the Truth," November 2006, author Robert Sarmast (“Discovery of Atlantis”) took host Josh Bernstein to the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Sarmast's second expedition in search of the fabled lost city of Atlantis .
Sarmast theorizes that the site of the city is now a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus.
The result of the second expedition: the amazing formations found by side-scan sonar appear to be natural occurrences.
From Sarmast:
"We knew that finding regular man-made structures below the mud would be an impossible task since the area has been below water for thousands of years and a lot of sedimentation has happened in that time."
"To put it simply, our modern technology is so limited that it is very difficult and expensive to even get a look at the sea floor itself -- to see what's UNDER it is extremely challenging to say the least."
"Here's the current situation: We have exhausted the means available to us, given the technological limitations for deep-sea research, and the results failed to either prove or disprove the Cyprus theory. If human beings did once live around the purported Acropolis Hill, currently halfway between Cyprus and Syria, and made modifications to the anomalies already there in order to make it suitable for human habitation, we would not know about it. There is no way to find that out without the ability to "x-ray" large areas of the sea floor, to see what's under all the mud, and discover whether or not man-made structures are there. Narrow sonar beams that give us a foot-wide glimpse of what's under the mud, in a straight line as the sonar device is towed behind the ship, are not going to provide what is needed. The technology we have today is not up to par for the task at hand."
"There is now, given our current technological means, only one way to inexpensively prove or disprove the theory. A core sample of the seabed from the rectangular valley could be analyzed to see when the area was last above water. To this date, not a single core sample of the deep-sea area between Cyprus and Syria has ever been taken or analyzed. When we hear scientists say that the Mediterranean was dry last about five million years ago, it should be kept in mind that these numbers come from core samples taken from completely unrelated areas, far away from the northeastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea where Atlantis/Eden was once above water. In other words, these numbers are based on guess work, not data. Until and unless the data itself comes in, those numbers are not based on scientific proof."

Books:

The URANTIA Book
THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD, THE BROTHERHOOD OF HUMANKIND. YOU *ARE* A SON OR DAUGHTER OF GOD AS HIS *FREE GIFT* TO BE REALIZED BY FAITH AS THE SOUL'S ATTITUDE AND DAILY EXPERIENCED THROUGH GRACE.
THIS VERY INSTANT, THERE DWELLS WITHIN *YOU* THE SPIRIT OF THE ETERNAL GOD, FREELY LEADING YOU INTO HIS SPIRITUAL PERFECTION AS YOU CHOOSE TO BE LED BY HIS INDWELLING GUIDANCE.
WHOLE-HEARTED FAITH AS THE SOUL'S ATTITUDE IS THE ONLY PRICE YOU PAY FOR THE PROFOUND INNER ASSURANCE OF SON OR DAUGHTERSHIP WITH GOD AND OF ETERNAL SURVIVAL.
THE *ESSENCE* OF TRUE RELIGION IS THE WHOLE-HEARTED TRUST IN THE *ABSOLUTE GOODNESS* OF GOD AS THE TRUE AND INFINITELY-LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER OF EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL ON THE PLANET.
"Jesus does not require his disciples to believe in him but rather to believe with him, believe in the reality of the love of God and in full confidence accept the security of the assurance of sonship with the heavenly Father. The Master desires that all his followers should fully share his transcendent faith. Jesus most touchingly challenged his followers, not only to believe what he believed, but also to believe as he believed. This is the full significance of his one supreme requirement,
"Follow me."
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The world is filled with hungry souls who famish in the very presence of the bread of life; men die searching for the very God who lives within them. Men seek for the treasures of the kingdom with yearning hearts and weary feet when they are all within the immediate grasp of living faith. Faith is to religion what sails are to a ship; it is an addition of power, not an added burden of life. There is but one struggle for those who enter the kingdom, and that is to fight the good fight of faith. The believer has only one battle, and that is against doubt--unbelief. - UB1766
Mind is your ship, the Adjuster is your pilot, the human will is captain. The master of the mortal vessel should have the wisdom to trust the divine pilot to guide the ascending soul into the morontia harbors of eternal survival. Only by selfishness, slothfulness, and sinfulness can the will of man reject the guidance of such a loving pilot and eventually wreck the mortal career upon the evil shoals of rejected mercy and upon the rocks of embraced sin. With your consent, this faithful pilot will safely carry you across the barriers of time and the handicaps of space to the very source of the divine mind and on beyond, even to the Paradise Father of Adjusters. - UB1217
The religion of the spirit means effort, struggle, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, and progress. The religion of the mind -- the theology of authority -- requires little or none of these exertions from its formal believers. Tradition is a safe refuge and an easy path for those fearful and halfhearted souls who instinctively shun the spirit struggles and mental uncertainties associated with those faith voyages of daring adventure out upon the high seas of unexplored truth in search for the farther shores of spiritual realities as they may be discovered by the progressive human mind and experienced by the evolving human soul. - UB1729
Ramon's Testimony
I grew up exposed to, but not immersed in, the Pentecostal persuasion. Unlike my cousins whose parents were completely immersed in Pentecostalism, throughout my adolescence I had relative freedom to " think " about things religious and theological without the encumbrance of formal religious indoctrination or undue coercion. Nevertheless, my own personal yearnings to be included in what I perceived as the elite group of "God's fold" led me from an early age to assimilate "religious" concepts and beliefs which today I believe have all along been detrimental to the progressive social evolution of the Occident, not to mention psychologically harmful to children.
As a young adult I was largely operating with much uncertainty about my status with God. I craved to know God for certain while I simultaneously felt completely unacceptable to him. After much personal soul-searching and truth-seeking, I had an epiphany at age 22, independent of all organized religious group or literary influences. The greatest aspect of this personal spiritual awakening within my conscious mind was the dawning within my soul of the truth that God is and always has been my TRUE and perfectly loving Father who had always known all about me and my experiences and, in testament with Jesus' Truth-Spirit, was actually telling me so within my heart; that He had always accepted me just as I am and would always be with me to help me grow.
The corollary experience was the inner confirmation of his ACTUAL and TRUE NATURE. Nearly immediately I became vividly aware of the discrepancies concerning God's nature and character, first between commonplace religious tradition and my own growing comprehension of his living Person, and second from among the varying portrayals within the Bible.
Consequently, I launched on a search for literary works that embraced a theology more consistent with and confirming of my actual spiritual awareness of his Person.
One month later, I was told about the Urantia Book . As I read the Papers on the Thought Adjusters, I experienced an unmistakeable leap of recognition from within. All of my subsequent reading of the Urantia Book has only served to reinforce my personal conviction that the Urantia Book is indeed all that it says it is.
I am always glad to share more about the Urantia Book with those interested. I'd like to emphasize at this point that the Urantia Book is not ' required reading .' Neither does it constitute a religion in and of itself. Neither does the Urantia Book claim to be the ' Whole Truth .' Whether or not the Urantia Book is in fact an authentic religious revelation, it most definitely can serve as a very effective catalyst to one's becoming inwardly certain of the inner spiritual presence of the living God and of one's status as a son or daughter of this magnificent Universal Father.
Testimony of a Jesusonian

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kevin
Linda Pierson
Davina
Stephen
Ancient Quill
Anthony L. de Hong Kong
Rob Webb
~Yogi Kenny~
MATT
Gladaman
I like guys
Don
Desert Cowboy
I am an A..
~*Bertha*~
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