The Urantia Book (Part 1 and Part 2): The Central, Super, and Local Universe

The Most Important Spiritual Book since the BibleIt was in 1969 at age 19 that I first encountered The Urantia Book. A number of friends had praised its teachings on evolution, and that Christmas a girlfriend gave it to me. I was surprised at its daunting size: 2,097 pages long. What confounded me the most was that the book contained 875 pages on the life and teachings of Jesus, including the missing years. How strange and intriguing, I thought. Dinosaurs and Jesus all in one text.Initially, I found the foreword to The Urantia Book utterly confusing but kept reading anyway. What followed was a fascinating intellectual and spiritual adventure that shook up everything I thought I knew. The first two parts of the book describe God, the Trinity, the organization and structure of the universe, life on other worlds, life after death, angels and other personalities, and Heaven. When I read Part Three, it was like winning the lottery for me. This section deals with the origin and history of our world, starting from the origin of our sun over six billion years ago and ending with the birth of Jesus. From ice ages to saber tooth tigers, from the first human family to the evolution of modern government, from the story of Adam and Eve to the birth of prayer, The Urantia Book presented a logical story of physical and social evolution. It was the logical and smart bridge between science and religion that I had been searching for.The fourth section of the book is the most important Jesus book since the Bible. It recounts the magnificent life and teachings of Jesus. Before I read The Urantia Book, I loved the story of Jesus in the New Testament, but always felt disappointed that it only covered a few years of his life. Being born to a Christian mother, raised by a non-conformist Jewish father, and having spent two years in a Catholic monastery, my smorgasbord of religious education had taught me to question everything. How did the idea that he was the only son of God relate to Moses, Buddha and other prophets? And if you were born in India and never heard of Jesus would you really go to “hell?” So, when I read the section about Jesus, I was profoundly moved; Jesus, the human being as well as the Son of God, came alive in the most superbly written biographical literature that I have ever come across. In addition to reframing Jesus for me, it made me far more respectful and appreciative of my childhood training in both Judaism and Christianity.Simply put, Part Four transformed my life from one of doubt to one of faith, from one of insecurity to one of trust in God—with Jesus as the lens in which God becomes visible. As a spiritual adventurer, I was thrilled that the Jesus of The Urantia Book built upon the Bible, and then took me a hundred miles further.The Urantia Book changed three major things inside me. First, it made me examine my values and commit myself to doing something worthwhile with my life.Second, the book instilled the importance of family. A line in the book says, “The family is man's greatest purely human achievement.” Everything I have done since reading The Urantia Book has been influenced by my decision to put my family first.The third and most valuable thing that The Urantia Book did for me was to make God real. Experiencing God as a loving Father and tangible inside of me and inside of you, and not just some kind of wispy spirit or force, was pivotal for me. This reality has shaped every single day of my life since that time.When I first heard people discussing The Urantia Book, they said it was a revelation, written not by human beings, but by angels. I thought was just the goofiest thing I’d ever heard. I ended up reading it in spite of its purported origins. After I read it, it became less relevant to me who had written it or how it was written because it was so powerful. I’d wanted bold; I found bold. I’d wanted spiritual adventure and I was on the ride of my life. I’d wanted truth and the book was loaded with it. Since that time, I have looked into it deeply and I cannot find any author associated with the book. But it doesn’t matter to me because I love what it says and I’m a much better person because of its teachings. I’ve learned not to pick fights with the books I read—I’m appreciative and I grow from them.

The book alone is hard to understand, but reading along with this is awesome. Everyone with questions about God & our place in the Universe, this is a good book to read. It certainly opens the mind.

The best perspective of an extraordinary life. Changed the way I view my creator, life, church and people in general. Truly transformational.

I used this all the time when ever I am in the car!!

Fascinating

I felt this book gave a narrow perspective on Consciousness. Did not feel like it was written with an open heart. Includes good ideas.

No one ever asked me to read the Urantia Book. No one has ever asked me if I have read the Urantia Book. No one came to my door asking for a donation. No one ever will. No one is making money off of the Urantia Book. Donations (if you can find where to send them) go to printing more books. There are no "Urantia Book" churches, leaders or groups asking you to believe. It is not on TV, the radio, magazines, or newspapers asking you to believe.It is up to you.I have never read anything that touched me so deeply and made more sense. For the first time in my 58 years I now know what it feels like to be filled with the Spirit of God. My Thought Adjuster is my guide when I can hear. What the Urantia Book has taught me is that God is real. Jesus (aka Michael of Nebadon) is real. Angels are real. The war in heaven was real. Adam and Eve were real. The possibility of sharing an eternal life and path with other mortal will creatures also simultaneously inhabiting the Universe is REAL.To the rest of you I only wish happiness in that one day (time will tell) you will also know.

I am fascinated with the Urantia Books. Even if it is a long book, I still loved every word in it. No matter who wrote this book, and whether it can be convinced to be true, with an open heart and understanding mind, we can always get nutrients from it. Again, I love the book.