Spiritual Ways to Spend Valentine’s Day

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Valentine’s Day is a day to show extra special love to your beloveds but it might also be a day to consider getting in touch with your spiritual self. It can also be a day to honor the divine—God. You can also create magic by getting in touch with your heart center—that is, spend time by yourself and engage in self-love while honoring our wonderful universe. Read How

Love is more than a feeling. All true love comes from God, and the decision to love is the means by which we can actually share that love – let it flow through us to our world. The Urantia Book actually defines love as the “desire to do good to others. Read More 

Here is one example from The Urantia Book Papers: “If each day or each week you achieve an understanding of one more of your fellows, and if this is the limit of your ability, then you are certainly socializing and truly spiritualizing your personality. Love is infectious, and when human devotion is intelligent and wise, love is more catching than hate. But only genuine and unselfish love is truly contagious.” Read More 

James Webb Spots Baby ‘Platypus’ Galaxies, — or something entirely new

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Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd observations show features of both stars and galaxies, leading to researchers referring to them as “platypuses” after the animal with a mishmash of parts. The features may provide hints to how galaxies formed billions of years ago, in the early life of the universe. Read More

From the Urantia Book, “In the not-distant future, new telescopes will reveal to the wondering gaze of Urantian astronomers no less than 375 million new galaxies in the remote stretches of outer space.” Read More

How the Concept of Original Sin is Losing Traction

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A recent survey, The State of Theology, revealed that 64 percent of American evangelicals believe “everyone is born innocent in the eyes of God,” and 53 percent believe “everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.”  Read More

In The Urantia Book Jesus teaches: “Do not become discouraged by the discovery that you are human. Human nature may tend toward evil, but it is not inherently sinful.”  Read More

In Paul’s theory of original sin, the doctrines of hereditary guilt and innate evil and redemption therefrom, was partially Mithraic in origin, having little in common with Hebrew theology, Philo’s philosophy, or Jesus’ teachings. Some phases of Paul’s teachings regarding original sin and the atonement were original with himself.” Read More

 A Note about original sin from the editors: This finding could be evidence of the Spirit of Truth that is alive and working in the world through those who truly follow Jesus. Jesus is clear about this concept in the teachings of The Urantia Book. To read more abut the so-called “fall of man,” Read More