My people, your people. Our world.

We can put up fences with each other or we can help ourselves by learning to get along.

Using our brains to figure out how to get along. Urantian, Christian, whatever background.

Lucifer may have damned us thousands of years ago but we are damning ourselves when we refuse to work things out with each other.

It isnít his fault anymore, it is my responsibility, your responsibility. We are in this together and Jesus gave us the tools to work it out.

You wrote: ì.. how do we do this correctly without totally alienating themî

I think a good place to start is by not thinking in terms of ëus and themí but rather think in terms of ëusí.

I consider myself a Christian and I fault the Christian community for making this so difficult in some ways, in other ways I respect their principles. The key for us is to have a full understanding of language barriers ñ words can be so important in religious discussions.

As I have written before it is my opinion that we should all be thinking -

My people, your people. Our world.

We can put up fences with each other or we can help ourselves by learning to get along.

Using our brains to figure out how to get along. Urantian, Christian, whatever background.

Lucifer may have damned us thousands of years ago but we are damning ourselves when we refuse to work things out with each other.

It isnít his fault anymore, it is my responsibility, your responsibility. We are in this together and Jesus gave us the tools to work it out.

P.1098 In the mind's eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times--a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them.

I am intrigued by Bro. Dave and his attempts to debate the UB/Bible subjects on the Christian discussion board that he visits. It sounds like he has only limited success however.

When the Ub gave the story of the cave man it described him thusly: a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead., then went on to learn more about him and ended with If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them.

Again, donít be blinded by the human failings of our brothers and sisters in the Christian community. Spend the time to learn about them, learn the things they have been taught. When you are with them, speak with the Spirit of Truth, it will assist you. I know because that is how I make it.

Talk lists can be a little more difficult because the mode of communication is kind of anti-human. We give signals to each other with body language and voice inflection, which isnít possible here. I laugh a lot, but that doesnít come across at all in my writing from what I can tell.

If you are really interested in how to do this find a church community you are comfortable with and spend time there ñ not just attending a Sunday service but joining in a weekday Bible study and service projects associated with the church. Jesus worked with individuals one on one. That is the best way to learn. I donít argue over details either, when I am in a group I look for the substance of the Spirit of Truth. It is completely argumentative to try to nail down details that upset someone when that will be worked out in the next life. Religion is evolutionary for a reason. We arenít expected to get it all at once, no one is. The important thing is the substance of Truth, which we all can see the same.

Carol

P.1098 In the mind's eye conjure up a picture of one of your primitive ancestors of cave-dwelling times--a short, misshapen, filthy, snarling hulk of a man standing, legs spread, club upraised, breathing hate and animosity as he looks fiercely just ahead. Such a picture hardly depicts the divine dignity of man. But allow us to enlarge the picture. In front of this animated human crouches a saber-toothed tiger. Behind him, a woman and two children. Immediately you recognize that such a picture stands for the beginnings of much that is fine and noble in the human race, but the man is the same in both pictures. Only in the second sketch you are favored with a widened horizon. You therein discern the motivation of this evolving mortal. His attitude becomes praiseworthy because you understand him. If you could only fathom the motives of your associates, how much better you would understand them. If you could only know your fellows, you would eventually fall in love with them.

The Life Of Jesus-paper 195, page 2086-

The great hope of Urantia lies in the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new and enlarged presentation of his saving message which would spiritually unite in loving service the numerous families of his present-day professed followers.

What truly distresses me most, is not the immediate lack of acceptance, or even the show of some interest. No, what bothers me is the TOTAL failure on my part of sufficient spiritual fruits of any kind to have ever had anyone ask how I acquired them! Truth be told, my wife has used that more than once against me, telling me she does not see the UB having changed me at all. (no, she has not/will not read the UB). I hope that is not true. I have for some 30 years shared the UB one way or another with literally hundreds of folks, and to my knowledge, not ONE has become a reader.(sigh) However, like a UB version of Johnny Appleseed, I will continue to sprinkle seed anywhere, and everywhere I can. The action is mine, the consequences are up to God.

Bro Dave

It is an opportunity for those that are ready for some thing more and for those that have been looking and not finding ì that which yearns deep inside of themî answers that they can not find through normal means.

The U.B. said it is not for this generation but for a future generation and, Those of us that are so privilege to have it now, Have a sacred trust in our hand.

The safe guarding and slow dissemination of it to all the world for those that are and will be ready for it.

The U.B. also says that for each person there is a religion that is right for them and what they are capable of understanding. It is not our place to pull them in to some think the donít want.

As long as they are being feed with what they have found and it is working for them, so be it, and God Be Praised.

The Life Of Jesus-paper 195, page 2086-

If Christianity could only grasp more of Jesus's teachings, it could do so much more in helping modern man to solve his new and increasingly complex problems.