Faith vs Intellect - fear of belief - page 30

tlhall wrote:

So you seem to be saying that it would be frightening to have physical evidence of super-mortal beings. Fear is probably the most common method of violating free will.
This sounds close to an explanation of why we are never given such evidence.
I also suspect that it would be "overpowering" to a material mind. Were most people to confront such evidence, they would almost certainly misinterpret its meaning.

Yes...I agree and think you've nailed it!! :wink:

We are taught that our world is still considered primitive and very susceptible to superstitions and fear based evolutionary religious traditions and beliefs. A study of Paper 52 reveals the fact that Urantia currently exists within multiple Mortal Epochs and so many cultures and populations have so much variety of progress. Some of which are more spiritual and some of which are more scientific and some which are transcending materialism and others caught firmly in its grasp. But we universally share the ministries of the Spirit of Truth and the Thought Adjusters and are Michael's very special home of his own human experience and under his direct care and guidance.

But the spectrum of disparity in spirituality and evolutionary progress on Urantia makes for some very interesting limitations for our planetary rulers and administrators. Papers 85-99 reveal that our world, as does every world, has a long history of fear based evolutionary progress. Ghost fears and good luck and bad and fetishes and charms and hero worship and sacrifice and atonement and so many other primitive forms of religious beliefs and faith foundations still exist.

Check out all the references to "primitive" - especially in Papers 85-99:

https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book/se ... &op=Search

More informed and more enlightened minds should not judge what is proper for their/our more primitive brothers and sisters. Evolutionary progress takes time. This is also true on those worlds not tainted or touched by rebellion or default or blinded by darkness and isolation. Never is any world won over by shock and awe or miracles and wonder. Never is evolution shortened by demands of obedience. Indeed the rebellion itself was about the promotion of false liberty over true liberty and the default in the Garden was due to immature impatience - both attempts to hurry along the time consuming and patient evolutionary struggle of progress of the whole by the progress of each part of the whole.

We are taught that it is immature impatience that sees our world by the perspective that change is slow. Not true we are taught!! If one applies true vision of the far distant past and the inevitable destiny to come, then and only then can we truly see to witness the march of progress and the speed at which this force of evolutionary change actually occurs!!

Let us be patient and see the progress of the ages and the acceleration of change and progress that is upon us!!

118:1.3 (1295.3) There is a direct relationship between maturity and the unit of time consciousness in any given intellect. The time unit may be a day, a year, or a longer period, but inevitably it is the criterion by which the conscious self evaluates the circumstances of life, and by which the conceiving intellect measures and evaluates the facts of temporal existence.

118:1.4 (1295.4) Experience, wisdom, and judgment are the concomitants of the lengthening of the time unit in mortal experience. As the human mind reckons backward into the past, it is evaluating past experience for the purpose of bringing it to bear on a present situation. As mind reaches out into the future, it is attempting to evaluate the future significance of possible action. And having thus reckoned with both experience and wisdom, the human will exercises judgment-decision in the present, and the plan of action thus born of the past and the future becomes existent.

118:1.5 (1295.5) In the maturity of the developing self, the past and future are brought together to illuminate the true meaning of the present. As the self matures, it reaches further and further back into the past for experience, while its wisdom forecasts seek to penetrate deeper and deeper into the unknown future. And as the conceiving self extends this reach ever further into both past and future, so does judgment become less and less dependent on the momentary present. In this way does decision-action begin to escape from the fetters of the moving present, while it begins to take on the aspects of past-future significance.

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