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The
following reply was given by one of our team to a young truth-seeker
who wrote a very lengthy letter expressing a goodly amount of angst and
confusion. This person is a new reader, but only after quite a
lot of experiential seeking through magic, satanism, aliens, UFology,
etc. S/he had now reached the point of finding The Urantia Book, but
still had some searching questions regarding Truth. We add this
excellent reply in hopes that it will minister to others in the same
spot.
A: Thank you for visiting our site and for your note to us
with your comments and questions. I’ll take your points one
by one. We’re glad you’ve found
The Urantia Book — one of its purposes is to address the
kinds of confusion you’ve expressed you’ve been
feeling and to shed light on how and why we are bewildered and to offer
better initial assumptions upon which we can make the choices and
decisions that are so necessary in order to have a meaningful and
fulfilling life.
You’ve started your story by describing your
rebellious attitude and your search for spiritual meaning;
therefore you’ve had a spiritual longing that was seeking to
be addressed but wasn’t met by the religious upbringing in
your home life. You’re not alone; many people go through such
a similar searching as well.
You wrote: I keep looking for something
that i can call truth and belive in it without doubt.
Sorry, but no one else can just give that to you —
you’ll have to seek it out, discover it, learn
it for yourself. As part of your makeup as a human being
though you have the capacity to discern truth; it’s called a
truth-response or a reality-response. You’ll know in your gut
whether or not something is true, beautiful, good from the way it
resonates with you. That’s what the search for truth entails;
you’ll read, discuss, and give thought to new concepts and
ideas then the choice becomes yours as to whether to follow
your intuition regarding its truth, beauty, or goodness and
whether to accept or reject it — no one else can give this to
you; it’s personal and you own it.
As a human being you are endowed with a rational mind;
it’s a gift intended to help you make choices that are for
your betterment. In order for something to be considered true and
believable to you you’ll have to reject emotional
attachment to thoughts and actions that your rational mind prompts you
are not true, beautiful, or good and that are working against your
advancement as a kind, loving, empathetic, unselfish person.
That’s a first step toward finding the truth and happiness
you’re seeking.
You’ve reiterated how confused you are...
that’s because your actions are in conflict with your
thoughts and your inner aspirations. It’s also because
you’ve based your actions on confusing and
convoluted concepts that aren’t truth based but
are instead the kind of emotional wishful
thinking and rebellious choices children make.
You said: i want the truth, the only truth
about everything in this world, i am tired of living like this.
Well, it looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you, but
that’s fine because you’re young and as long as you
don’t squander your life further you’ll have a good
long time to achieve your goals. In your own convoluted way of
searching you’ve managed to stumble upon the profound truth
that it is you and the rest of the world are searching for although
most people don’t even know they’re searching or
that they’re confused or that they’re
building lives upon unsound and baseless principles.
You said: I don't care about life anymore...
I can assure you that if you’ll read and learn what The
Urantia Book offers your life will become precious and a blessing.
You’ve asked a number of specific questions too.
They’re good questions, the kind of questions seekers ask,
but I’m not going to provide answers now since I
have a better recommendation.
Even though The Urantia Book is a challenge to
read it’s written for you, not some group or some
other person or for religious people or for non-believers;
it’s written for you at the point in your life where
you’ve discovered it... so as difficult as some of it may be
to comprehend you will begin to understand it better the more you stay
with it.
The purpose of our website is to help people get a grip on
what The Urantia Book is all about so that they don’t have to
dive right into the book by themselves and on their own. The Urantia
Book is about personal discovery. You won’t be able to join a
cult or a church or an in-group. All we have to promote is the book
itself — it’s a book — we promote its
teachings — if you read it your life will become new and
valuable to you and to others. That’s what we wish to share
with any truth seeker. We have no interest or desire to deceive or to
coerce; there’s nothing to join or to contribute to; no one
will contact you for anything; our site is simply a gift, just as The
Urantia Book is a gift with no strings attached. Accept the gift
willingly and gladly.
So, my recommendation to you, since you’ve now made
this awesome and unfathomable discovery, is for you to ease into
tackling something that’s so radically different from
everything you’ve learned so far. Certainly feel free to read
the book, because that’s what this is all based upon. The
Urantia Book is available at most bookstores, through Amazon.com,
at most libraries, and on-line on our site where you can read it and
listen to it at the same time. But more than tackling the
book I think you would benefit most by just spending time on
our site and learning about it through the insights and impressions of
others. Become familiar with what’s there. Each of the left
side links contains a wealth of information about The Urantia Book.
Check them out just to see what they hold. Watch the videos and other
presentations that have been made available. Read the answers to
life’s toughest questions section. Read how The Urantia Book
has changed the lives of others. Read the frequently asked questions
section. Consider checking out our discussion forum where you can just
read the interactions between Urantia readers and non-readers or you
can join in and participate if you like. Check out the links in the
center of our home page — each of them leads to a new
section. A good many of your questions will be answered without you
having even opened the book.
The Urantia Book covers an enormous amount of material. Our
site is primarily devoted to promoting that aspect of the book relating
to life and teachings of Jesus. Many people have trouble with
Jesus, much of which stems from having him forced upon them in
unappealing ways. Another of the objectives of The Urantia Book is to
return the true Jesus to the people of the world. Jesus
wasn’t a Christian and the Christian Church doesn’t
own the rights to him; he came for everyone and our goal is to help
people of all faiths and of no faith whatsoever rediscover and be
reintroduced to who he was, why he came and what he means to you
personally.
Your study assignment can take a good amount of time but I
think you’ll find it both enjoyable and highly
profitable. Please feel free to contact us again as you begin to get a
more defined feeling about what this book has to offer to you.
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