Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book: What does the UB say about why we are here on earth?

Q: What does the UB say about why we are here on earth?

A: The Urantia Book has a lot to say about what you've asked, but to give a short answer, God chose to create a spiritual and a material universe and to experience that creation. There are many types of self aware spiritual and material beings in God's creation, human beings being but one of those types, and God has given a fragment of himself to accompany the soul of human beings as they begin the long adventure of finding their way back to God. The purpose of our life on earth is to begin that adventure as the lowest order of free will creature in existence and to set out on that long adventure by giving birth to an immortal soul simply by believing that life has more to offer than what we can see and touch. Your new born soul, which is you without a material body, and your fragment of God travel together in this adventure until your soul has become spiritualized enough that you and God's fragment fuse into one being and then you continue on as one until the ultimate goal is reached. Earth is but one of billions of starting point worlds that human beings inhabit but it happens to be unique, first because it's an experimental world and is unlike the vast majority of normal worlds, and second it's unique because Jesus lived here; he hasn't lived on any other material worlds. So we're very fortunate that our individual personalities were sent here to inhabit these material bodies on this material world in company with our individual fragment of God the Father. We're just setting out on a grand adventure.

Labels: Earth, God, Jesus, soul, The Urantia Book