religion

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religion (Papers 99–103, 196) (5:4sec) (101:1sec). See also Christian church, early; Christianity; churches; faith; faith sons of God; fellowship of believers; gospel; Jesus: teachings; kingdom of heaven; revelation; spiritual growth
all Urantia waiting for unencumbered r. of Jesus (94:12.7)
approach others with recognition of common truths (149:2.5)
balance by humor (143:7.3)
ceremonies q.v.
challenge is to construct new and appealing philosophy of living (2:7.10)
charms q.v.
civilization in danger when youth not interested in (111:4.4)
defined as
adjustment to the mysterious, and to paradoxes (92:1.3) (102:3.2)
awareness of insideness of human experience (103:6.3)
believing and doing what gospel requires (159:5.8)
confidence in reality (101:9.8)
determination to find God and be like him (196:3.30)
discovery of spiritual meanings to well-known facts (101:1.4)
effort, conflict, faith, determination, love, loyalty, progress (155:5.11)
eternal foundation and guiding star of enduring civilization (79:4.9) (92:3.6) (92:7.15) (99:1.2-3)
experience of knowing God; striving to be like him (99:2.6)
experiencing of divinity (101:1.1)
faith, hope, love, assurance, mercy (101:0.3) (194:3.2)
faith-child of moral consciousness (101:2.13)
faith in supreme Deity, hope of eternal survival, and love of one’s fellows (103:9.5)
faith in survival of supreme values (111:3.5)
faith recognition of urge to divine attainment (101:2.14)
faith-trust in goodness of God (2:6.1)
Father life predicated on truth, sensitive to beauty, dominated by goodness (106:9.12)
hunger quest for divine reality and spiritual values (16:9.9-13) (102:3.4)
identification of self with universe (5:4.3)
imperfectly preserved record of experiences of God-knowing men (4:5.1)
impulse for organizing soul for service (100:3.1)
insight into reality (101:2.13)
knowing God as Father, yourself as son of God, and man as brother (5:4.8) (98:7.11) (99:5.2)
living love, a life of service (5:4.1) (92:7.5) (100:6.5) (102:3.4)
love (102:6.3)
loving God (102:3.12)
loving neighbor as oneself (180:5.7)
loyalty to highest dictates of spiritual consciousness (101:9.3) (155:3.5)
realization of an all-powerful love (90:0.3)
salvation from self (5:4.5)
self-conscious relation of soul with Creator (143:7.2)
spiritual communion with spirit influences resident within human mind (101:1.4)
spiritual unification of all that is good, beautiful, and true (5:4.7)
subjectivity in response to total objectivity (196:3.20-21)
trusting one’s present and future to God (102:8.1) (103:9.5)
unqualified dependence upon love of Father (102:3.12) (103:9.5)
wholehearted devotion to supreme values (92:7.5) (100:6.1-2) (101:5.2) (195:7.16)
wise spiritual reaction to universe (100:2.3)
worship of God and service of man (72:3.5) (100:3.1) (103:3.2) (159:5.7) (196:3.19)
evolutionary religion. See religion: history of religion; religion: institutional religion
explained (94:4.10). See also gospel: explained
500 definitions by theologians (103:1.1)
acme of, marks of, religious living (100:6-7secs)
activation is superemotional (99:4.5)
all teach worship of Deity, human salvation (5:4.5) (92:7.3)
always indefinable in terms of reason and logic (101:1.5)
apparently religious traits can grow out of nonreligious roots (102:7.4)
birth of r. not sudden, rather gradually emerges (103:2.1)
can be either good or evil (160:5.3)
can never be understood from outside (101:2.16)
cannot be bestowed, received, loaned, learned, or lost (100:1.7)
cannot be isolated from life (102:6.1)
certitude of r. springs from foundations of entire personality (101:0.3) (102:1.4)
chief agency of r. is prayer (91:1.2) (91:3.3)
compellingly authoritative when true, undefiled (102:2.2)
conserves, exalts, and spiritualizes morals and values (99:5.1) (102:5.3)
declares divine source of values personally attainable (160:5.7-8)
derives authority from fruits of its acceptance (155:5.12)
discovery in mind, revelation by Adjuster (196:3.17)
doctrine is most terrible tyrant which enslaves men (88:2.7)
does not seek to escape this life (194:3.2-3)
earmarks are certainty, consistency, love, service (102:7.5)
encouraged by improving social morality and ethical culture (34:7.4) (102:8.2)
endowments of r. immediately available (102:2.4)
factors indicating quality of r. (92:7.6-10)
feeling regarding morals paramount, not theological thinking (103:3.4) (103:9.2)
founded on Adjuster assumption that faith is valid (103:9.8)
Ganid’s abstract of “our religion” (131:10sec)
has reference to destiny and reality of attainment (160:5.13)
implies spirit world responsive to human need (2:6.2)
impulse originates in spirit presences activating will to be unselfish (103:3.1)
is to morality as love is to duty (102:5.3)
judge by its fruits, its inherent and divine excellence (101:4.4) (101:9.6-8) (102:2.1)
leads to serving men, creates ethics and altruism (102:3.6)
life insurance beyond the grave (86:7.2)
lives and prospers by faith and insight, not sight and feelings (101:0.3) (101:1.4)
may be genuine despite erroneous theology (103:9.1-2)
men only superficially accept a new religion (92:2.5)
mission is to stabilize ideals during dangerous times of transition (99:1.3-4)
mortals crave to symbolize concepts of God (0:2.1)
must act; no r. apart from a highly active personality (102:2.7-9) (155:5.8)
must grow around a cult (87:7.10)
never a passive experience, a negative attitude (103:2.1)
no provision for spiritual self-examination in Jesus’ religion (140:8.27)
normal and natural, but optional (5:5.5)
not concerned with material things (195:6.2)
not dependent on learning or clever logic (101:2.15) (101:3.1) (102:2.1)
not invalidated because religionists have believed so much that was false (103:1.5)
not the product of reason, but reasonable (101:1.1)
often acts unwisely, but it acts (102:2.9)
opposes violence (99:0.2) (99:2.5)
pays any price essential (100:3.1)
persists despite revolutionary changes in beliefs (103:1.4)
persists in absence of learning (101:3.1)
philosophy and r. See science, philosophy, and religion
poised spirit of expression, without self-assertion or egoistic exaltation (102:2.2)
positive nature of Jesus’ r. (159:5sec)
powerless apart from normal heredity (70:8.18)
qualitative experience (195:6.5)
r. of Jesus vs. r. about Jesus (128:4.6) (138:6.3) (192:4.7-8)
rests wholly on faith and the confirmation of conscience (101:5.12-13)
revelation, embrace of supernatural values, divine destiny (155:5sec) (195:5.3) (196:0.4)
self-forgetful, not self-sacrificial (180:5.12)
should stand in contrast with temporal world (102:3.2)
spiritual status determined by nature of its prayers (5:4.8)
supremacy of r. (196:3sec)
survives because it conserves followers’ highest values (97:10.5)
true r. (155:5-6secs) (160:5sec) (192:2sec)
truth and maturity of r. proportional to concepts of personality and unity of God (1:5.10)
truth is intellectual foundation of (56:10.10)
validated by personal experience (99:5.1,7) (102:8.1,7) (103:1.5) (138:2.1) (145:2.3-8) (160:4.1) (191:5.3) (196:0.4)
what r. is not (5:4.1) (92:6.20)
without God is an invention of man; an absurdity (102:7.3) (103:9.3) (160:5.5)
without God is devoid of survival values (102:7.4)
history of religion
7 major epochs of post-Adamic Urantia (92:5.8-15)
apostles of John and Jesus attempted socialization of (144:6.10-11)
composite religions (92:6sec)
desire to make converts was early cause of war (70:1.14)
disappearance of religious standards and decadence of Andite civilization left world’s races spiritually impoverished (80:7.8)
evolution of philosophy of r. (101:7sec)
fetishes q.v.
Ganid’s abstract of major religions (Paper 131)
great teachers and leaders (92:5sec) (121:6.4)
Jesus was the only founder of a r. who performed supermaterial acts (149:2.7)
many exerted their influence because of previous experience of Adjusters (109:4.3)
many virtually unlettered (101:2.15) (102:8.2)
named
Amenemope (95:3.5)
Amos (97:4.1-4)
Confucius (94:6.9-11)
Elijah (45:4.17) (97:2.1) (155:6.2)
Enoch (45:4.13)
Fantad (64:6.17)
Gautama Siddhartha (94:7sec) (121:6.4)
Hosea (97:4.5-6)
Ikhnaton (95:3.5)
Isaiah (first) (97:5sec)
Isaiah (second) (97:7sec)
Jeremiah (97:6sec)
Jesus (Papers 120–196)
John the Baptist (136:0.1) (144:8.4)
Lao-tse (94:6.2-8) (121:6.4)
Mansant (64:6.29)
Mo Ti (94:6.11)
Moses (95:3.5) (121:6.4)
Okhban (95:3.5)
Onagar (63:6sec)
Onamonalonton (64:6.7-8)
Orlandof (64:6.23)
Orvonon (64:6.26)
Paul (92:5.13) (108:6.3) (121:6.4-5) (195:0.6)
Philo (121:6.4-5)
Porshunta (64:6.12)
Samuel (97:1sec)
Sethard (121:6.4)
Simon Peter (92:6.18) (132:0.6) (194:4.12) (195:0.1)
Singlangton (79:6.10) (79:8.4) (94:5.3)
Zoroaster (121:6.4)
personality fulcrums on which levers of revealed truth depended (92:5.7-8)
has suffered from many secondary influences (99:4.7)
in times of Jesus (121:4-5secs)
long, dark ages between Caligastia rebellion and Adam (64:6.29)
men venerate leaders of r. at expense of teachings (92:5.5)
of 20th century Urantia (92:6.2-13)
teachings of Prince’s staff (66:5.13-16)
training was duty of parents in Garden of Eden (74:7.2)
wholly evolutionary until arrival of Planetary Prince (52:2.3)
institutional religion (Paper 99)
adherents believe they have final infallible Truth (92:3.4)
adherents frightened by every new discovery (155:6.6)
barren (195:9.7)
based on false security of authority (191:5.3)
based on fear, emotion, tradition, and philosophy (160:5.3) (180:5.12)
blunder to miraculously interpret certain epochs of history (97:8.5)
cannot reconstruct society without first reconstructing itself (99:2.1-2)
cardinal ideas (92:3.2)
concerned with ethics and morals, sense of duty (101:5.10)
cup of remembrance is emblem of emergence from bondage of (179:5.2)
dangers. See religion: warnings
does not provide for its progressive correction (92:3.4)
good to extent it brings man to God and God to man (92:7.3)
gradually loses saving message (99:6.3)
intellectual theology of established religious authority (155:5sec)
Jesus avoided establishment of (120:3.6)
lags behind slowly changing mores (102:8.6)
most rigid human institution (92:1.3) (92:2.1) (155:6.2)
perpetuates established order of society (99:0.1) (99:2.5)
practices (92:1.3)
present-day forms are ritualization of ancient positive propitiation (89:4.7)
price for adherence is loss of spiritual freedom (155:6.5)
requires uniformity of belief (155:6.9)
revelation recognizes duty demands of (101:9.1)
sacraments of. See sacraments
science purifies r. by destroying superstition (81:6.10)
spiritually indolent souls crave ancient and authoritative r. (102:2.7-8) (195:10.14)
status best judged by moral and ethical standards (102:5.3) (102:8.2)
symbols of socialized religion are not to be despised as channels of growth (100:5.1)
usually detracts from spiritual quality (98:6.1)
various religions can never come to unification (155:6.8-9)
weakness of institutional r. (99:2sec)
women degraded under several Oriental religions (84:5.6)
worship customs are confused and discredited (92:7.13)
intellectual deficiency handicaps higher attainment; intellectual overdevelopment sometimes embarrassing (102:3.1)
leaders receive their rewards in another world (71:3.12)
little chance to function until religious group becomes separated from all other groups (99:5.4)
modern men fear what r. of Jesus will do to them and with them (195:9.6)
morality always antecedent to (5:5.4)
morontia r. relates to experience of survival; firmer grasp of mota (101:5.13) (101:6.1)
most dynamic influence ever (99:5.3)
needed now as never before (99:4.6)
needs new leaders who will depend solely on Jesus (195:9.4)
no new duties to perform (99:1.4)
often decisive factor in cultural development (79:6.10)
overstressed and isolated morality of modern r. (2:7.9)
primitive religion (Papers 85–91)
achievements of self-control were real progress (89:1.7)
basic belief was survival after death (92:6.1)
craves extinction in endless slumber and rest (194:3.2-3)
erroneous in concept; utterly illogical (86:7.5)
Father takes note of superstitious emotions of primitive men (155:6.17)
gods of. See also gods and goddesses
conceived in likeness of man (1:5.11) (85:6.3) (92:5.1)
inflict displeasure by famine and flood (4:5.3) (148:6.4)
self-deceptive idols; wishful fancy (160:5.9)
highest level is exalted anthropomorphism (5:4.9)
influence of tribal spirit of solidarity (103:3.1)
influences in creation of primitive religion
arises as biologic reaction of mind (85:0.1) (86:0sec) (92:0.1-5) (92:1.3) (103:0.2)
belief environment responsive to ghost whims (90:3.1)
belief man in debt to spirits (89:0.1)
born of all-powerful fear of unknown, ignorance, superstition, awe, and dread; feeling of helplessness before onslaught of natural forces (5:4.1) (52:1.7) (62:5.4) (85:0.4) (86:2.2) (90:0.3) (118:10.14) (155:5.3)
fairy tale of conscience (101:7.6)
faith, discrimination of values, and sense of duty are ancestry of (101:1.6)
fear led to attempts to placate invisible forces (64:4.12)
fostered by shock of death (86:3.1)
insurance against perils of forest; bad luck; misfortune (86:7.1-3) (87:5.2) (89:2.1)
man created primitive r. out of his fears and by means of his illusions (85:0.1) (86:6.1-3) (86:7.5)
mind derivative; concerned with ethics, morals, duty (101:5.3,10)
outworking of adjutant mind-spirits (101:5.10)
predicated on associational circumstances (85:0.2)
primitive r. created its God conceptions out of the highest recognized values (102:8.4)
search for supernatural explanation for all phenomena (81:2.9) (148:5.4)
slowly grew from innate worship urge and misconception of chance (86:6.4) (101:5.10)
largely technique for disease prevention (90:4.1)
long waste upon tombs, temples, sacrifices, and priesthoods was worth all it cost (86:6.7)
man’s most expensive but incomparably effective institution (52:1.7) (92:3.7-9)
many reverted to ideal of idleness (69:2.5)
mother of science, art, and philosophy (5:5.5)
preserved mores inviolate from generation to generation; novelty always sacrilege (68:4.3) (92:2.2)
primitives danced out their r. (99:5.9)
primitives saved up property as nucleus for starting life in next existence (69:9.4)
progress when man conceived of supermortal forces consistent in behavior (87:4.5)
ruthlessly drove indolent suffering humanity forward (92:3.9)
sentimental, not logical (92:4.3)
subdues fiery tempers of primitive creatures (52:1.7)
summary of evolutionary growth (103:3.5)
teachers and leaders invested with legends of supernatural origins, careers, expected returns (92:5.5-6)
tends to make God manlike (102:3.14)
purposes of group activities (99:6.2)
relics q.v.
religions, named. See ancestor worship; animism; Baal; Brahmanism; Buddhism; Christianity; Confucianism; cult of taking no life; Cynicism (religion); Dionysus; dual spiritism; Eleusinian mysteries; emperor worship; Epicureanism; Greece: Greek religion; henotheism; Hinduism; Islam; Jainism; Judaism; Mithraism; monotheism; mother cult; Mother of God cult; mystery cults; mysticism; Orphic brotherhood; paganism; pantheism; Parsees; phallic cult; Phrygian mystery cults; polytheism; Roman Catholic Church; Shinto; Sikhism; Skepticism (religion); Stoicism (religion); Yoga; Zoroastrianism
religious experience, growth. See spiritual growth
result of religion
believer cleansed from every evil thought and sinful deed (131:5.5)
brings peace and progress (157:2.2)
builds up in souls as eternal endowment (155:6.3)
calls forth faith, trust, unity, peace, and assurance (5:4.2) (99:3.16) (99:7.2) (101:0.3) (101:10.5) (194:3.2) (195:5.8)
certain consciousness of God, assurance of survival (101:1.6)
cures man’s isolation, soul hunger, moral despair (98:2.2) (101:10.7)
dissolves, absorbs, illuminates, and transcends troubles (196:3.1)
enables men to live together in complex civilization (103:7.9)
enhances home life (177:2.6)
ennobles commonplace drudgery (100:0.2)
fellows receive highest good from believer’s contact with them (180:5.7)
fosters sovereignty of truth, beauty, and goodness (99:4.4)
grows in quest for final values (100:1.7) (103:1.4) (111:3.5)
influences social reconstruction through spiritualizing the individual (99:3.3)
inspires cosmic loyalty (99:3.16)
joins patience with passion, insight to zeal, sympathy with power, ideals with energy (99:7.3)
leads to union with righteousness (131:5.4)
leads to value consciousness (102:3.5)
leaves believer forever free to follow truth wherever it leads (155:6.5)
only power which lastingly increases altruism (99:1.5)
prepares man bravely to face vicissitudes of life (102:2.8)
releases faith and courage for daily living (155:3.7)
renders religionist socially fragrant (99:4.1)
seeks to convert individual and transform world (160:5.3-5)
seeks to win all, not be of any (137:7.5,12)
should not destroy sense of humor (100:6.5)
social fruits are love and service (5:5.4) (100:3.1) (102:7.5) (103:3.2) (170:3.8,9)
the more r. one has, the more certain one is (102:1.3)
transforms the mediocre individual into a personality of idealistic power (100:0.1)
yields happiness (101:2.8)
revelatory religion. See revelation
rituals. See ceremonies; cults; traditions
science and religion (103:7sec). See also science, philosophy, and religion
social reconstructionists show unrecognized religious motivation (99:3.6-7)
taboos q.v.
thawing out frozen forms of r. (155:3.8)
traditions q.v.
training at home in continental nation (72:3.5)
types of religion
3 distinct forms (155:5.2-6)
3 modern contending philosophies of (99:4.9-12)
either evolved or suddenly revealed (92:7.2)
evolutionary r., revelatory r., philosophic r., and admixtures (103:0.3-7)
warnings
dangers of religion are
abstract and dissociated concept of goodness (2:7.9)
accumulation of vested interests (99:6.3)
appeal to the miraculous (102:8.7)
aristocratic chosen-people attitude (99:6.3)
being a thing apart from human experience (5:5.12)
commercialization (125:1.1) (125:5.6) (149:6.12) (173:1.11)
defense of outgrown systems (195:10.8)
doctrinal finality (182:1.8). See also doctrines
evil discrimination of religious castes (99:6.3)
failure to make up-to-date interpretations (99:6.3)
false ideas of sacredness (99:6.3) (155:3.5) (159:4.9)
fanaticism, exaggeration of ego (196:0.6)
fixation of beliefs (99:6.3)
formulating creeds and traditions in order to control believers (141:5.4)
intolerance q.v.
leaders becoming administrators instead of ministers (99:6.3)
loveless zeal (99:3.8)
negativity (140:4.7)
neglecting science, art, spiritual experience (2:7.9)
oppressive ecclesiastical authority (99:6.3)
petrification of worship (99:6.3)
purchasing social harmony by sacrifice of free personality (141:5.1)
sectarianism (99:6.1)
service of church rather than of God (99:6.3)
standardization or formalization (99:4.1,3)
superficial frothiness of religious egotist (196:0.8)
superiority of group consciousness (182:1.8)
tendency to form competitive divisions (99:6.3)
tendency to standardize and fossilize truth (99:6.3)
tendency to venerate the past over present (99:6.3)
unholy secular alliances; established social or economic practices (99:0.1-2) (99:1.6) (99:2.3,5) (99:3.11) (99:6.3) (99:7.1) (194:3.9) (195:10.13,21)
despite evils, error to destroy technique of group functioning (97:10.7)
difficulties and persecutions attendant upon proclaiming gospel (155:5.13)
discipline by constructive criticism, amplify by philosophy, purify by science, and nourish by loyal fellowship (5:5.12) (99:3.7,9-14)
ecclesiasticism incompatible with living faith (195:10.8)
error in r. proportional to materialism (102:4.4)
false when it denies realities or confers assumed knowledge (101:8.3)
feeling and emotion are not r. (101:5.9)
form of expression must be continually restated (99:1.6)
man invariably tries to institutionalize his r. (195:9.6)
many isms have arisen from garbled Adjuster communications (110:4.5)
must quicken its adaptation to ever-changing social order (99:0.3)
no peace when one r. presumes exclusive authority over others (134:4.3-4,8)
often altogether too self-confident and dogmatic (103:7.7)
on trial before the bar of human need (132:1.4)
one is self-deceived if not a missionary evangel of one’s own (160:5.3,5)
prevent egocentricity by exposing oneself to vast number of other religions (103:1.3)
promoting smugness in the fortunate or stoical resignation in victims of social deprivation (116:0.1)
rarely survives as private practice of isolated individuals (97:10.7) (98:6.1)
r. must have up-to-date slogans (195:6.10)
r. of spirit in deadly conflict with institutional r. (155:5.12) (173:3.3) (191:5.3)
safeguard by common sense (159:4.9)
separate church and state (70:1.14) (70:12.17) (71:8.4) (72:3.6) (178:1.9)
world needs more firsthand r. (195:9.8)

Cross-references

See religion: history of religion
See science, philosophy, and religion
See religion: warnings
See sacraments
See ancestor worship
See spiritual growth
See revelation
See ceremonies
See religion: institutional religion
See animism
See cults
See Baal
See traditions
See Brahmanism
See Buddhism
See Christianity
See Confucianism
See cult of taking no life
See Cynicism (religion)
See Dionysus
See dual spiritism
See Eleusinian mysteries
See emperor worship
See Epicureanism
See Greece: Greek religion
See henotheism
See Hinduism
See Islam
See Jainism
See Judaism
See Mithraism
See monotheism
See mother cult
See Mother of God cult
See mystery cults
See mysticism
See Orphic brotherhood
See paganism
See pantheism
See Parsees
See phallic cult
See Phrygian mystery cults
See polytheism
See Roman Catholic Church
See Shinto
See Sikhism
See Skepticism (religion)
See Stoicism (religion)
See Yoga
See Zoroastrianism
See also Christian church, early
See also gospel: explained
See also gods and goddesses
See also science, philosophy, and religion
See also doctrines
See also Christianity
See also churches
See also faith
See also faith sons of God
See also fellowship of believers
See also gospel
See also Jesus: teachings
See also kingdom of heaven
See also revelation
See also spiritual growth

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