Urantia Book Commentary and Articles: 2008-08-10

Dear Friends,

Pato Banton, internationally known Reggae artist, and devoted Urantia Book lover, has created a new sublime and inspiring CD, called The Words of Christ II. You can listen to the entire album at Truthbook.com.

Please click on "external link" at the bottom of this article to access the CD.

You may be familiar with Pato's original effort - The Words of Christ - which has been thrilling visitors to Truthbook.com for a couple of years now. Pato's soothing and unique voice narrating Jesus' words, accompanied by the amazing music of Clyde JJ Forde, combine to give the listener an incredibly inspiring new way to grasp the teachings of the Master.

In this new CD, Pato has chosen another thrilling collection of the Master's talks, discourses and sermons. As well as the matchless music and narration, the text of each selection can also be read while listening, giving you a total sight-and-sound-and-mind experience of absorbing these soul-satisfying lessons on life.

Click here to go to The Words of Christ II page at Truthbook.

We know that you will enjoy this wonderful new CD. Each selection can be emailed, so that your Christian and truth-seeking friends and family can share them with you, and we hope that you will feel free to take this opportunity to help spread the good news.

With Love and Affectionate Regard,
The Truthbook Team

Pato dedicates this lovingly produced CD with these words:

I would like to dedicate this labor of love to all genuine Truth Seekers.

For far too long people have focused their attention on the personality and appearance of Christ, when the true focus should be on his life and teachings.

What was hidden from the wise and prudent is now revealed to the babes and suckling in these words which have been taken from The Urantia Book. ~ Pato Banton

1. First Sermon In The Synagogue
2. Discourse On The Water Of Life & The Discourse On Assurance
3. Jesus' Teaching At Tyre
4. On Counting The Cost
5. The Discourse On True Religion
6. Why Do The Heathen Rage
7. The Sermon At Gerasa
8. Teaching About Accidents
9. The Talk About Angels
10. Teachings About Wealth
11. The Enquiring Greeks
12 Evil, Sin & Iniquity
13. Enmity Of The World
14. Sermon On The Good Shepherd
Pato Banton - Words of Christ II

Labels: CD, discourses, Jesus, Pato Banton, sermons, The Urantia Book

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Questions about Chromosome Count

This is a question and answer recently published in the FAQ section of Truthbook.com regarding the number of chromosomes in human cells, vs the number of "trait determiners," and just what this seeming discrepancy of Urantia Book revelation with known science can mean.

At the end of this Q+A, there is a link to another site wherein author Kermit Anderson discusses these Urantia Book concepts as well.

Q: On page 397:11, The Urantia Book states that there are 48 units of pattern control in the sex cells of human reproduction. I believe this refers to chromosomes... if not, what could it mean? Our science counts 46 chromosomes. Prior to this discovery, it was thought there were 48, but that was in chimps.

I think this is fundamental to the truth of The Urantia Book, as it is stated as fact in the Origin of the Human Race, and all development is based on that assumed fact. This makes all so-called truths suspect. I wish this were not so, for I am a seeker.

A: Yes, The Urantia Book does state that there are 48 units of pattern control. The general assumption always tends to be that this is a reference to chromosomes and since it's incorrect then those looking for disputable facts will simply say, "see, The Urantia Book doesn't know what it's talking about." If the revelators had meant chromosomes they would have used that word since they did use it in one other place.

"On Urantia there are forty-eight units of pattern control--trait determiners--in the sex cells of human reproduction."(36:2.4)

This statement about "forty-eight units of pattern control"--forty-eight units of trait determiners (genes)--is in the context of the "design" of Urantia will creatures. The Life Carriers designed us with twenty-four chromosomes, twenty-two autosomes and two sex chromosomes. In the process of protein synthesis, the single-stranded messenger RNA (mRNA) is the "pattern". Each strand of the double-stranded DNA is a unit of "pattern control". The integrity of the pattern in each strand is controlled, because the DNA strands are a complementary pair. Therefore, each DNA strand serves as a control for the transcription of RNA patterns; and twenty-four chromosomes implies forty-eight units of pattern control, two for each chromosome.

The revelators point to "the sex cells of human reproduction", rather than to somatic cells, in an attempt to keep us from misinterpreting the statement. At the time of the revelation, scientists mistakenly thought that there were forty-eight chromosomes in a somatic cell; and even with the correct number of chromosomes (forty-six), the revelators are trying to help us avoid the confusion of the homologous pairs of autosomes in a somatic cell. A germ cell has twenty-three chromosomes, and "the sex cells" collectively are the two different implementation subsets of the full design set of twenty-four chromosomes.

Labels: cells, chromosomes, DNA, genetics, Kermit Anderson, pattern, RNA, The Urantia Book, trait determiners