Urantia Book Commentary and Articles: A Revelation

By Paula Thompson

As a person who believes in the existence of God itâ€™s hard to imagine what it must be like to not believe in the first great source and center of all things and beings. I find it impossible to extricate myself from my tap root and I apologize if this article offends. Itâ€™s not intended to convert those who donâ€™t believe in God but rather as a statement of the personal faith experience of one who does believe. I actually respect and honor Atheists and Agnostics as logical thinkers, people who reserve the right to decide for themselves what they believe. There was a time in my life when I tended toward Atheism; not because I rejected the notion of God but because I had never really heard anything I cared to believe about God.

Although I was raised to believe in God and Jesus I never really belonged to a church. When I was 16, I had a visionary dream that significantly increased my longing to find out the truth of these matters. This led me to a serious involvement with a fundamental Christian belief system which eventuated in my rejection of Christianity. I still believed in God and Jesus, but I rejected the concept that divine beings could sanction the eternal torment of someone who was just trying to eek out a life on this most difficult planet. I remember telling God at that time, â€œYou may be just the way they say you are and if so, Iâ€™m sorry, but I canâ€™t worship you. But somehow, I donâ€™t think you are that way. If you want me to know you, you will have to reveal yourself to me because Iâ€™m not getting involved with any more religions!â€� (I am thankful now that I was able at such a young age to separate the reality of God from the teachings about God.) Shortly thereafter, The Urantia Book came to me serendipitously as I suffered devastating grief over the loss of my dearest friend and supporter, my Dad.

This remarkable book set me on a journey of personal spiritual transformation that is nearly impossible to describe. Suffice to say, it revealed to me the God of my dreams, the God that I could willingly fall down to worship. It put God in a cosmic context that was larger than anything I could have conceived. It revealed God as the first great source and center of all things loving, true, beautiful and good. Because I already believed in love, truth, beauty and goodness it wasnâ€™t such a stretch to imagine that they took origin at a central point in ultimate perfection.

In the final analysis, I cannot defend or prove the reality of God any more than I can prove that love is real. God, like love, cannot be scientifically proven only experientially felt. Ultimately, I honor every human who searches for real value and meaning in this short but potent life as â€œa child without duplicate in infinity, a will creature irreplaceable in all eternity.â€� The Urantia Book (12:7.9)

Namaste!

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