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Every human in
our world experiences moments of self-reflection, doubt and skepticism.
We search for answers that help us define God's role in our lives and
our relevance to the universe and beyond. These are not new questions.
The Urantia Book can be a valuable source of enlightenment and comfort
when a soul is faced with Life's Toughest Questions. Click on a question
you've struggled with and discover The Urantia Book's perspective on
some of life's most difficult and frequently-asked questions.
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Are the parents you receive on Earth pre-planned according to some kind of guideplan? Some children grow up under very spiritually dry environments e.g. the son and daughter of Anthony Lavey, compared to the children of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As far as we
know from the teachings of The Urantia Book, the only pre-planning of
parents that has transpired over the million year course of
human history was the selection of Jesus' earth parents -- the three
most promising sets of parents were identified and Joseph and Mary were
chosen from among them to provide the incarnation of the Creator Son
the best opportunity for fulfilling his pre-ordained mission. Normal
human beings don't have pre-ordained missions that require fulfilling.
The purpose
of the mansion worlds is to provide the remedial environment for
whatever is lacking in this material life. People brought up in
non-spiritual environments, such as in the
Satanic
church, can still
develop spiritualized thinking -- they still have guardian angels the
ministry of the Spirit of Truth, Thought Adjusters -- just as those
raised under the best of conditions can disavow the spiritual reality
of life. Environment has a strong impact but it can be overcome through
choice.
At
conception our personality, the potential for the person we're to
become, most likely gravitates toward parents who might provide the
kind of environment suitable for our development. But, through the
vicissitudes of life, there's no insurance that life will unfold as
might have been projected. So, in answer to this question, it would
appear that basically no, parents are not pre-ordained; it's the luck
of the draw and we learn to make the best of the circumstances into
which we're born.
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