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General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Spiritually themed Urantia Book Reddit group
LWatson
Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2022 3:09 am +0000
Replies: 0 24381
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Will the Urantia Book survive?
LWatson
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 12:31 am +0000
Replies: 9 8483
Hello all, I've been giving this topic some serious thought lately, and I can't help but wonder if the Urantia Book can survive another 1 or 2 generations. The internet and the number of published editions of the Book will ensure physical or digital copies will always exist. What I'm more concerned ...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Salesman's Thoughts on Evangelism
LWatson
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:18 am +0000
Replies: 4 7493
Tas, You are 100% correct that the best way to get this going is by experimentation. I apologize if my suggestions seemed to rely heavily on the funding aspect. My mind, perhaps to a fault, immediately jumps towards those sort of logistics. My career path so far has been the trade of sales and marke...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Salesman's Thoughts on Evangelism
LWatson
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:28 pm +0000
Replies: 4 7493
A Salesman’s Thoughts on Evangelism Let me begin by addressing what may appear to be the mechanical nature of my writing style. It seems to be one of my many imperfections to be unable to convey a sense of spiritual purpose when I propose an idea. Trust me when I say I have every intention to propo...
The Skeptics Corner Topic: Age of life on Urantia
LWatson
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2015 2:43 pm +0000
Replies: 96 152783
I am of the opinion that life, as it may be characterized by the Urantia Book, is much more complex than what our scientists regard as life. About 550 Million years ago, the Cambrian Explosion of diversity in life occurred. Before this point most "cells" were prokaryotic, and as I understa...
Questions & Answers Topic: A partial believer, a partial skeptic, so where do I fit?
LWatson
Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:05 am +0000
Replies: 11 13973
Hello Riktare,
Questions & Answers Topic: A partial believer, a partial skeptic, so where do I fit?
LWatson
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 7:28 am +0000
Replies: 11 13973
Hello Yaakov, You fit in with all people who have struggled between a new revelation and their inherited faith. Similar struggles occurred when Galileo learned that Earth was not the center of the universe. These struggles also occurred when science proved that evolution was a fact, and the geologic...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Why do people take exception to SOME things in the UB?
LWatson
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2014 6:54 am +0000
Replies: 7 10887
Surprisingly, The Urantia Book does actually say that the Jews were a chosen race. It does all stem from the covenant Abraham made with Melchizedek. The Jews were not meant to be the material rulers of the world led by an all-powerful military conqueror deemed the Messiah, but a chosen people whose ...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: Christianity 21 Conference
LWatson
Posted: Thu Nov 27, 2014 6:20 am +0000
Replies: 2 5354
Hello all, I found this article on examiner.com. I thought it would be worth a read. On January 22-25, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona there will be a conference held to address the increasing statistic of self-identified "nones," or those who identify with no religious affiliation. This conferen...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Possible Statement of Faith (not creed)
LWatson
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 7:27 pm +0000
Replies: 30 36156
The fact of the matter is that the Urantia Book has not generated a large following because of the "slow growth" policy. While this policy was done with good intentions, the results, I believe, are going to be disastrous. It is indeed noble that so many are "devout" yet no formal...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Possible Statement of Faith (not creed)
LWatson
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 11:51 am +0000
Replies: 30 36156
Dear fellow readers, Perhaps I am getting ahead of myself on certain matters. The truth is I have been experiencing increasing frustration with the slow progress of the Urantia book. This frustration is directed both at the movement at large and on an individual level. Just yesterday I had a convers...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Possible Statement of Faith (not creed)
LWatson
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 5:28 pm +0000
Replies: 30 36156
Greetings Bart. When I say the UB movement has been corrupted by new age influences, I mean that those who lean towards the mystical and fantastic happen to find the UB and immediately embrace it because of its origin and not because of its contents. For example, the old TM people, or Gabriel of Sed...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Possible Statement of Faith (not creed)
LWatson
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 3:43 pm +0000
Replies: 30 36156
Greetings kicoverz. Thank you for your input. It is much appreciated, and it actually speaks to a point I have been entertaining for awhile. As it stands now, it is very likely that the Urantia movement will never catch on the way Christianity or Islam stormed the world over the last few centuries. ...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Possible Statement of Faith (not creed)
LWatson
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 1:10 pm +0000
Replies: 30 36156
As a footnote I would like to add that, although formulated this morning, this statement addresses many key issues I have been struggling with. Namely, in what way can I tell people quickly and succinctly what it is that I believe. I hope this will be useful to others as well in that regard. In addi...
General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: A Possible Statement of Faith (not creed)
LWatson
Posted: Sat Jul 06, 2013 12:09 pm +0000
Replies: 30 36156
These are a list of 8 statements of faith that I devised while meditating on the fact that there is no over-arching summary that satisfactorily describes what we students of the Revelation believe. Now I know how much emphasis the Urantia Book has placed on creeds and dogmas being spiritually dead. ...
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