Urantia Foundation Annual Report 2019

Presto Kensho wrote:

Should the Urantia movement be considered a member of or separate from the world's religions?

The Urantia "movement" is a global community of religionists, not a religion. Some students of the Revelation believe a new evolutionary church and religion should be established. Several of those have attempted such an endeavor but without much result.

The major organizations are not religious organizations or churches and do not sponsor or support those either. All bonafide Urantia Book students and organizations support personal religious experience and religious expressions by all persons.

The UB teaches that true and valid religion is a personal experience and expression of that personal religious experience of our relationship with the Spirit within.

The diversity of such experience and expression individually and by group culture and traditional beliefs and shared creeds and ceremonies is honored and respected by all serious students of the Revelation.

92:7.3 (1012.4) The many religions of Urantia are all good to the extent that they bring man to God and bring the realization of the Father to man. It is a fallacy for any group of religionists to conceive of their creed as The Truth; such attitudes bespeak more of theological arrogance than of certainty of faith. There is not a Urantia religion that could not profitably study and assimilate the best of the truths contained in every other faith, for all contain truth. Religionists would do better to borrow the best in their neighbors’ living spiritual faith rather than to denounce the worst in their lingering superstitions and outworn rituals.

92:7.4 (1012.5) All these religions have arisen as a result of man’s variable intellectual response to his identical spiritual leading. They can never hope to attain a uniformity of creeds, dogmas, and rituals—these are intellectual; but they can, and some day will, realize a unity in true worship of the Father of all, for this is spiritual, and it is forever true, in the spirit all men are equal.

100:0.1 (1094.1) THE experience of dynamic religious living transforms the mediocre individual into a personality of idealistic power. Religion ministers to the progress of all through fostering the progress of each individual, and the progress of each is augmented through the achievement of all.

100:0.2 (1094.2) Spiritual growth is mutually stimulated by intimate association with other religionists. Love supplies the soil for religious growth—an objective lure in the place of subjective gratification—yet it yields the supreme subjective satisfaction. And religion ennobles the commonplace drudgery of daily living.

103:1.3 (1130.2) While your religion is a matter of personal experience, it is most important that you should be exposed to the knowledge of a vast number of other religious experiences (the diverse interpretations of other and diverse mortals) to the end that you may prevent your religious life from becoming egocentric—circumscribed, selfish, and unsocial.

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