Greetings, I MUST SPEAK:

I am likewise curious as to why I have so many copies! . No, seriously, all joking aside, the first book I bought was the softback, in about 2006. I read some of it then. The second was hardbound in about 2011. Then I was given a copy of the 11th Printing 1993, which, if you know anything about the printing history of the UB, had considerably larger dimensions than any other for totally random reasons. The printer just did it that way. It gives the pages wide margins, making it perfect for note taking. I got one for my Nook last year, and one for my Kindle phone app the other day.

How did I find out about the UB? Well, many years ago, in my late teens and twenties, I would see this huge blue tome in the book store. I never could afford it, though. Finally, in my late thirties, I bought the thing, and there you have it. I'm actually looking at taking UBIS courses to be able to read and learn the book in a more structured environment. But that is the story in a nutshell.

Hello Yaakov,
Congratulations on your recent marriage and welcome back to the Truthbook discussion board. We hope you find it a welcoming and helpful place.

Where to begin reading? I would agree with Ysmael that to begin wherever you find your interest leading you to begin that way, But as you already know TUB is big and complex. The revelators explain that it was written that way on purpose and that reading from cover to cover, front to back, is the intended procedure. Still, it's your choice.

I hope we respect your Jewishness here. We're not here to convert you to something else. Those with a strong Jewish faith have difficulty with the Christian Jesus as well as with the Urantia Book Jesus. I would not recommend reading Part IV first if you currently have doubts about the messiah, about Jesus, about Christianity. If you read the book sequentially, by the time you arrive at Part IV you will be ready to hear about Jesus. Also, you should know that fundamentalist Christians have a difficult time with the teachings of TUB -- it's not a Christian document.

Please feel free to post your concerns or questions. I will hope that the zeal of UB readers to proselytize will be held in check and that we can have meaningful discussions that don't attempt to blast you out of your religion. Being a Jew is a good thing. I think you can become an even better one once you comprehend the full message of TUB.

Best wishes,
Larry Watkinsw

No, you misunderstand. Each time I would enter a bookstore, I would see a copy of the UB.

gotcha!

I used to flip around the UB because I got the book and had not had a chance to read it like a normal book - page 1 on - before I joined the internet discussion group run by the Foundation - this was in the early 1990s.....

So in order to understand the discussions on the internet, I would read the UB references the debaters provided. It was a total waste of time for my personal tried and true way of Ace-ing a graduate course, so to speak.

Bottom line, it's just stupid to read a book any other way than to begin at the beginning and turn the pages one at a time - there are no short cuts to Paradise

.btw, you'll find that there are a lot of readers who really don't "care" what your religion is - meaning that it won't be held against you as a fellow reader that you are a Jew. The hope is that you return that kind of respect to all the "religions" that come here