Spiritual Advice and Guidance Blog: Urantia Book

Q: Who is the first man?

A: Thanks for writing this question to us here at Truthbook, a website devoted to the teachings of The Urantia Book. We're glad you found us.

You want to know who the first man is...well, the first "man" was in reality, the first truly human pair - twins named Andon and Fonta. They were the crown of the evolutionary ascent up to that time - humans who could speak and who had the capacity for wisdom and worship.

When the twins reached 11 years of age, the angels made this announcement and prayer:

(63:0.2) "Man-mind has appeared on 606 of Satania, and these parents of the new race shall be called Andon and Fonta. And all archangels pray that these creatures may speedily be endowed with the personal indwelling of the gift of the spirit of the Universal Father."

It was a very important time, and they were very important beings - the first real human beings, developed over millenia through the technique of evolution, now having reached the point where they could be called human beings. They left their simian family behind, and struck out on their own to become the beginnings of a whole new family - the family of man.

You can read all about Andon and Fonta and the first human family HERE.

Many religions teach that the first man was Adam. However, The Urantia Book makes very clear the difference between the first human family of Andon and Fonta and the very different mission of Adam and Eve.

Thanks again for writing to us. I hope you'll visit often. And I would like to invite you to subscribe to our free Quote of the Day service which will deliver an inspiring teaching from The Urantia Book each day to your inbox.

Labels: Adam and Eve, Andon and Fonta, evolution, humans, The Urantia Book

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

I am not spirit experiencing being human - not human experiencing being spirit.

Q: I am not spirit experiencing being human - not human experiencing being spirit.

A: Thank you for your note to Truthbook.com, a website devoted to the teachings of The Urantia Book.

The statement you make here is obviously a statement of your opinion, and all I can say is, thank you for sharing. The Urantia Book does have a passage regarding the spirit and the body, and it was recently featured in the Quote of the Day; I suspect this statement is your answer to it. The quote is:

"On a material world you think of a body as having a spirit, but we regard the spirit as having a body." (42:12.5)

The remainder of the quote is:

"The material eyes are truly the windows of the spirit-born soul. The spirit is the architect, the mind is the builder, the body is the material building."

They are not saying that we are wrong to think as we do. They are simply instructing us that the Spirit is the influence that creates the soul, which is a spiritual counterpart of the material body. "The spirit is the architect..." The soul evolves over a lifetime, every time we make a choice for truth, beauty and goodness. When we die, it is that immortal soul which survives death and goes on to eternal life. So, indeed the spirit does create and HAVE that body for eternity - that soul-body which also contains our personality, and memory, and which lives forever. The material body, having served its purpose, and incapable of eternal existence,