Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book

Q:Good day to you...I stumbled on your website thinking it's a site that deals with more information on Jesus' works. I'm quite surprised that you have, or are trying to carve out, an entirely new religion for Jesus. Well I'm only curious to know what is in the Urantia book and what it says about Jesus.

One more question please, it appears there's a synergy between you and other religions; now if this is so, specifically what do you make of the Islamic version of Jesus and does Muhammad really come in as a prophet whom Jesus had talked about?

I will appreciate your response on these issues.

A: Thank you for taking the time to write to us at Truthbook.com. You have stumbled upon a website that deals with more information on Jesus... just like you were hoping for.

The Urantia Book isn't a religion although it contains much about religious history, its evolutionary and revelatory roots, meanings and values. But besides religion The Urantia Book contains much that isÂ meaningful in the areas of spirituality, cosmology, astronomy, geology, physics, philosophy, ... you've discovered some of its religious implications; there are other avenues to uncover there as well.

We can only hope that a synergy will result between the teachings of The Urantia Book and other religions - it's a slow and gradual process. Religions have deep and historical roots. The Urantia Book is new, only having come into existence in 1955 so it has no tradition to rest upon. Its teachings have to tested for their own merit and against oneâ€™s personal discernment of truth.

We readers and students of The Urantia Book believe that what it relates about what Jesus said and did is as historically accurate as we will ever encounter since we also believe that the Urantia Book account comes from the records the angels keep relating to our lives. Jesus made no prophetic pronouncements about Mohammed; MohammedÂ was a prophet 600 years after Jesus' time.

As I understand it, the Jesus of Islam isn't much different from the Jesus portrayed by some Christian sects... a good man, a holy man, but not much different from other historical holy men. The Urantia Book corrects that misconception without diminishing the value of the prophets or other holy men.

You can read and listen to The Urantia Book being read on our site HERE

The Urantia Book can also be purchased from Amazon.com HERE...

I would recommend either the paperback or hard cover indexed versions which also come with a DVD containing the full text of the book that can be loaded onto your computer; from that you can produce individual audio CDs to listen to whenever or wherever itâ€™s convenient.

Thank you for your note and for your comments. Please feel free to write any time.

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