maestro wrote:
Only Urantia received the creator, Christ, as its Bestowal Son, which is the only thing that makes us different from any other populated planet. That this was a singular honor in the cosmos was negated by Christ's murder. Urantia (earth) is known on the more advanced worlds with horror as "The World of the Cross."
That is the problem Broke, in his lifetime Christ was known to so few. One would expect that God, would simultaneously make himself known to all humans? Why appear as a carpenter in some Roman colony, why not say project a giant hologram of yourself in the night sky, so that those Americans, Asians and Africans can gain some benefit.
I'm not sure why one would expect that.
But some people still do expect that. It after all is the Jews' major disagreement with Christianity, that he was not very Messiahlike. The entire "Left Behind" series of novels has this kind of thing as a denouement, with a large apparition of angels and Christ, with blaring trumpets and mighty, fearsome voices that each person somehow hears in his or her on tongue.
I read this series out of curiousity and find it a vaccuous and a cynical attempt to cash in on people's sense of powerlessness and emptiness in the modern world.
Isn't Christ's life accused enough already of being fictional because of all the magical thinking, with the miracles and ressurrection? So your contention is that there should have been more of it, and that would have made it more believable? And in every age, I suppose, so Christ's historical period would not have been favored over any other, especially your own, no doubt. I get that, I guess. If there were miracles, why haven't I ever seen any?
The vast majority of the UB's content deals with this very objection of yours. But you would not know that since you have not read any of it. I keep coming back to this point in this thread because I consider it very, very significant to the thread itself.
The other revelations as I outlined them above were not isolated events. Melchizedek started the Salem missionary school, which sent out human teachers whom he had prepared to all parts of Eurasia and many parts of Africa.
This Melchizedek mission is extremely crucial to the spiritual life of humans on this planet. Both prior Revelations had become compromised by the Lucifer Rebellion. Melchizedek arrived on earth as a fully mature man who spent most of his time educating Abraham. He remained on earth for some 80 years, but as he was not human himself, he did not age. His work became threatened as people began to become either frightened by a man who never grew older or began to worship him as a god himself, which was, of course, exactly what he did not want. He was forced to leave before his mission began to unravel due to these superstitions and fears. He had succeeded in solidifying the monotheistic views of the Hebrews, even if they still believed that their military foes had their own gods and theirs own, singular Yahweh was merely a better god than the rest.
The Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma Trinity is the remnant of the ancient teachings of Edenic missionaries and these later Salem missionaries to educate the Deccan peoples about the Triune nature of the Godhead. The UB describes in detail how, where, and when the races of color began, how they migrated, and how their religious notions were influenced, in the cases that they were, by one or more of the five Revelations. It is also noteworthy that as humanity is an evolving thing, so is its relationship with and knowledge of the Gods.
In brief, why should you expect the message of God to be fully "out there" and accepted in YOUR lifetime, when it clearly has not been in anyone
else's lifetime, not even Christ's own? And by objecting to someting like the UB - without reading any of it, I might add again - how are YOU helping the heretofore left out peoples of the world become included? I am only asking you that not to be especially accusatory, but because it is what I have already asked myself when the same objections you raise occurred to me.
In other words, what you think should have happened is moot, considering what has been happening all along. Revelations are always intended not to also be revolutionary, in the sense that they cause upheaval, warfare, and strife. The very failure of the Edenic mission was due to Eve's impatience with the Divine plan, the one she and all the other Adams and Eves are trained for on the worlds of their divine origin.
Look at it this way. Suppose you had a very young child whom you adored. You want this child to have every advantage of knowing truth about life, and not to suffer the delusions of all the other fools. Does that mean you take him at two or three, and force him to watch graphic footage of human sexuality and human violence and cruelty to other humans and animals, with blood and disembowelment and brutal rape and wailing and gnashing of teeth?
Not bloody likely, maestro. First, you insulate the child from such things, and try to give him the tools to handle the truth when he inevitably encounters it. You give him, because you love him, the means to
fight back.
And the fact is, in Christ's lifetime, if the copious details of the UB have any validity, he
was quite well-known. There was no TV or printing press. There was word-of-mouth, and travel by foot. The UB gives a year-by-year account of his life. He was literate in Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek, as he lived at a caravan crossroads. He travelled to Rome and later to India as a private tutor of a wealthy merchant.
I cannot take seriously the objection that Christ did not personally overwhelm and browbeat the populace with huge holograms in the sky or any other kind of gimmick. It would not have been consistent with his message, which was intended to help people find love in their hearts, not fear in their minds or terror in their souls. It would have been the same mistake that Adam and Eve made, attempting something in a short period of time that by nature requires a gentle awakening. It was
his personal mandate which Adam and Eve abrogated by their actions; it would be inconsistent for him to have done the same thing, IMO.
You will observe that the miracles attributed to him arose out of compassion, not the attempt to awe, overwhelm, intimidate, or even win anyone over. It is worthwhile to note that the UB takes great pains to debunk many of the so-called "miracles," while elaborating on others and describing some not in the Gospels. If there is an ulterior motive for doing so - that is, if the UB were entirely made up to achieve some purpose other than its purported one - it by and large escapes me.
The UB's message is simplicity itself: Take heart, for you are incredibly loved. You need do, and in fact
can do, nothing to deserve, earn, or ensure this love. It is Divine in origin; it remains only for the Divine in you to accept it or reject it. This is really the only thing over which your Will has power. Kevin will disagree with this and tell you even in this your decision is caused from without, the extent to which you mindfully make such a decision is the extent to which you are deluded about it. If he were wrong in nothing else, he would yet be incorrect about this one thing. No philosophy can override or refute God's will or logically disabuse his children of his promise to them; voluntarily submitting your Will to the Divine Will is your divine right. If you could not do this, then you would indeed be subject completely to the whims of fate. It is a fatal error of logic to conclude that being completely the effect of external causes no matter what you decide or do
is the same thing as surrendering your Will to the Divine Will. If it were, it could be logically proven or demonstrated, and it cannot. This, and not some mass-produced little white wafer over which mumbo-jumbo is pronounced, is the true "mystery of faith."
