A PEEK INTO ETERNITY WHILE STILL ON EARTH.

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A PEEK INTO ETERNITYWHILE STILL ONEARTH.
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THIS IS NOT A PREACHING TOUR. NOR IT IS MY
INTENTION TO CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS OR
CONCEPTIONS.SIMPLY, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE
YOU TO THE URANTIA BOOK.
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CURIOSITY IS INHERENT IN HUMAN NATURE.HUMANS
ALWAYS WANTS TO KNOW.AND KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
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SINCE THE DAWN OF TIMES, HUMANS ASKED THEMSELVES
THESE QUESTIONSWHERE WAS OUR ORIGIN ?WHY ARE
WE HERE ?WHAT IS OUR DESTINY ?
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TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS AND MANY OTHER
QUESTIONS, HUMANS PURSUED THE AVENUES OF 3
DOMAINS RELIGION,PHILOSOPHY,SCIENCE.
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SCIENCE DEALS WITH PHYSICAL ENERGY
ACTIVITIES.RELIGION DEALS WITH ETERNAL
VALUES.PHILOSOPHY DOES ITS BEST TO CORRELATE
QUANTITIIVE AND QUALITIVE OBSERVATIONS.
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TO WORK IN THESE DOMAINS, HUMANS UTILIZED THEIR
HIGHEST ENDOWMENTSFAITH,WISDOM,REASON.
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FAITH INITIATED HUMANS INTO A WORLD OF
DIVINITY, AND RELIGION VIA FAITH YIELDED
HAPPINESS IN THE DOMAIN OF FAITH EXPERIENCE.
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WISDOM INTRODUCED HUMANS TO THE WORLD OF TRUTH,
AND PHILOSOPHY VIA LOGIC YIELDED UNITY,
CONCERNING REALITY IN THE DOMAIN OF WISDOM.
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REASON INTRODUCED HUMANS TO THE WORLD OF FACTS,
IT DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN REALITY AND MERE HOPES
FANCIES AND SCIENCE VIA REASON YIELDED KNOWLEDGE.
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SCIENCE ALWAYS STABILIZES PHILOSOPHY THROUGH THE
ELIMINATION OF ERROR, WHILE IT PURIFIES RELIGION
BY THE DESTRUCTION OF SUPERSTITION.
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IN HUMAN EVOLUTION, RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY, AND
SCIENCE MUST KEEP IN PACE WITH EACH OTHER TO
ENSURE TRUE PROGRESS
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• THAT IS WHEN REVELATION BECOMES NECESSARY AND
  WHEN IT IS INJECTED INTO HUMAN AFFAIRS, IT MUST
  RESPECT THE STATE OF PROGRESS OF THE AGE IN WHICH
  IT IS REVEALED.

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TRUE REVELATION NEVER RENDERS SCIENCE UNNATURAL,
RELIGION UNREASONABLE, OR PHILOSOPHY ILLOGICAL.
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MANY REVELATIONS HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF THE
PLANET, BUT ONLY FIVE OF THEM WERE REGARDED AS
WITH EPOCHAL MAGNITUDE.
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SO, WHAT IS THE URANTIA BOOK ?SIMPLY, THE
URANTIA BOOK IS A REVELATION. CLAIMING TO BE
THE FIFTH EPOCHAL REVELATION TO THIS PLANET
EARTH (URANTIA).
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The URANTIA Book is a 2097 page volume comprised
of 196 distinct chapters (papers) that describe
God, the universe, various orders of
personalities that inhabit and administer
creation, the history of URANTIA (Earth)
including some of the unique problems that have
beset it, various historical figures and the
life, teachings, and mission of Jesus of
Nazareth.
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When where did it happen?The URANTIA PAPERS
appeared between 1911 and 1935 in Chicago. The
URANTIA BOOK was typeset and made ready for
printing in the early 1940s and was published in
1955 by the URANTIA FOUNDATION.
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Who wrote it ?The first thing people want to
know is who wrote it ? The authority of the book
is in itself. The authors of the individual
papers, celestial beings of various orders, are
identified within the text of the book. These
self-identified authors describe a mandate
requiring them to make use of extant human
sources whenever possible, resorting to pure
revelation only when these sources were clearly
inadequate.
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Does the book provide prophecies ?The
revelation was not meant to provide unearned
knowledge, but rather filled up many missing gaps
in the human knowledge, past and present. Also,
it provides an insight on soon to be discovered
facts, some already came to pass since 1935 e.g.
in Archaeology, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy,
and Geology etc..
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As our planet approaches the crossroads of a new
era, the URANTIA Book provides an enlarged
perspective of God and the universe, that
transcends all previous planetary knowledge. It
brings new insight into the dynamic interaction
of evolution and revelation, a unity of truth
that coordinates, integrates and blends the
disciplines of science, religion and philosophy
in a wholesome, symmetrical, and inspiring
manner.
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• A mosaic of wisdom is formed within its pages
  that embraces and organizes existing human
  knowledge and nudges it forward, beyond the known
  -- into a new frontier

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False fear of sacredness always prevented
religion from being safeguarded by common sense.
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IT IS A BOOK THAT MAKE SENSE. Genuine truth is
known by its Spiritual flavor CERTAINLY THE
SPIRIT OF TRUTH WILL GUIDE YOU IN YOUR SEARCH.
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