Dear all,

Many of us who are readers of the Urantia Book are convinced about the super human authorship of the FER.

What are your personal points of conviction in favour of this?

Does this re-affirmation make any difference to us ?

I am eager to know.

Love.

There are so many time's the u.b says some amazing physical fact that you could see if a human was writing the book he would leave that out by the small chance it is proven wrong and ruin's his entire "revelation".

Does this re-affirmation make any difference to us ?

If human authors were involved, an enormous amount of time and effort would have been required for the research to accumulate the scientific, historical, and archaeological data presented in the book. It would appear to have been impossible for members of the postulated authors' families, or associates of those authors, not to have been aware of their participation.
http://www.urantology.org/urantia03.htm

HI Yoder

Your Free to Believe what you wish ,
And to your own Opinions , and to accept or reject
the Urantia Book .

Criticism: In my opinion The Urantia Book is a fraud -- a hoax. Those who perpetrated this book are criminals.

Anyone who would call the Urantia Papers a fraud does not know much about the people who were concerned with the factualization of this unique book. My wife and I had considerable experience with the exposure of mediumistic frauds and psychic humbugs during our earlier years, and some forty years ago I wrote a book depicting our experiences in dealing with these practitioners of the occult.

There was nothing questionable, much less fraudulent, connected with the origin of The Urantia Book. At the first glimpse of such, my associates and I would have forsaken the whole affair. We never detected anything fraudulent in the phenomena spread out over twenty-five years. True, we encountered much we could not explain, cannot explain even today. But there was no deception or other questionable practices.

Neither did the Forum -- more than one hundred and fifty persons who supplied the questions which brought forth the Urantia Papers -- ever detect any evidences of fraud.

No one has ever found a contradiction in The Urantia Book, a book of more than one million words. If your story is fictitious, you just can't go on the witness stand for more than twenty-five years to be examined and cross-examined by more than one hundred and fifty people, and never make a single slip-up. To pass such a test you have to be telling the truth.

It is now more than three years since the book was published; several thousand copies have been distributed which have been read by more thousands of people, and yet no one has discovered a contradiction; not even the severest critic has brought forth such an accusation.

When my son came home on furlough from the Marine Corps to read the Urantia Papers, the first question he asked me was: "Dad, is there any one making money out of this thing?" I answered: "No Son, but there are a number of us who are putting money into it." By the time the book was published we had, in time and money, put in over one hundred thousand dollars. Except for professional proof reading, no one was paid one cent during all the years of the production and publication of The Urantia Book.

But the cry of fraud is an old one. They charged Jesus with being a fraud -- "Are you not Jesus of Nazareth, the carpenter' s son?" And they went on to charge that he was in league with devils. Said one minister critic of The Urantia Book: "It unfolds the melodramatic shotgun wedding of secondhand neoplatonized Gnosticism and slipshod Protestant rationalism to sanctified science-fiction and sheer praise foolishness. The illegitimate child offspring of this union is called Urantia. There is no place for it in the house of the Lord."
http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/sadcrit.htm#17