revelation

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revelation. See also religion; Urantia Papers
always comes in times of great testing or defeat (195:9.3)
always difficult to induce men suddenly to accept (92:6.19)
assurance of r. based on faith plus experience in r. (101:2.1,8) (101:5.12-13)
concerned with eternal realities, survival of personality, attainment of Deity (101:5.4)
contrasted with science, religion, and philosophy (102:3.5-15)
Divine Counselors are highest source of r. on evolutionary worlds (1:7.9)
epochal revelations (92:4sec) (176:2.3) (189:3.3)
1st was Dalamatia teachings (92:4.5)
2nd was Edenic teachings (92:4.6)
3rd was Melchizedek of Salem (92:4.7)
4th was Jesus of Nazareth (92:4.8)
5th is Urantia Papers (92:4.9)
6th in 1000 years? (30:0.2)
excellent as well as genuine (100:6.8-9)
finite knowledge, even from high sources, is relative (2:7.1)
function of revelation
affirms First Cause of science and religion’s God of salvation are same Deity (4:4.7) (101:2.7) (103:7.8)
allures men to seek the God of love (5:4.1)
brought idea of personality of God (1:5.10-11)
compensates for frailties of philosophy (103:8.6)
concerned with expansion of truth (101:5.11)
essential to realization of brotherhood (52:6.2)
explains how God works out his will (101:2.1)
harmonizes partial approaches to reality (99:4.13)
instructs and validates faith (101:2.3) (103:7.1)
only compensation for absence of mota (4:2.7) (101:2.2,8) (102:3.5) (103:6.8,12-13)
portrays eternal brotherhood; makes man Godlike (102:3.8,14)
portrays teachings not too advanced (92:4.1)
presents cosmic data so as to illuminate spiritual teachings (101:4.10)
punctuates otherwise slow-moving planetary evolution (103:0.2)
recognizes and expands duty demands of evolutionary religion (101:5sec) (101:9.1)
sorts errors of evolution from truths of spirit (92:3.10) (92:4.1) (101:5.1)
synthesizes science and theology, creating harmony of mind and satisfaction of spirit (101:2.1-2,10)
transiently clarifies knowledge (101:4.5-10)
unifies history, geology, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, sociology, and psychology (102:4.6)
God formulates religion in (85:6.3)
God reveals himself to extent divinely possible (32:4.7)
human race very early sought for (90:2.1)
intolerant theologic egotism appears with (92:7.2)
limitations (0:0.1-4) (50:6.1) (101:4sec) (112:5.11) (119:6.3)
distortions of language are best efforts at contact-compromise with human minds (6:0.2,4)
imposed by mandate (119:0.1,7) (119:6.3)
laws of r. proscribe imparting unearned or premature knowledge (101:4.1)
must submit to graduated control of evolution (89:9.3) (92:4.1)
new r. always contaminated by evolutionary beliefs (79:4.7) (93:7.4)
no r. short of Father ever complete (92:4.9)
not necessarily inspired (101:4.2)
resorted to only when concept has no adequate previous expression (0:0.2) (0:12.11) (66:5.14) (121:8.13)
not limited to any one generation (159:4.6)
of God to world will not fail (196:3.33)
only revealed religion is spiritually moral (2:6.2)
overrevelation (30:0.2)
Jesus did not precipitate confusion by (137:7.14)
Melchizedek taught followers all they could assimilate (93:3.6)
only educated Egyptians could comprehend Ikhnaton’s teachings (95:5.12-13)
robs mankind of its advances by confusion and dismay (66:6.6)
stifles imagination (30:0.2)
personal revelation. See also leadings; mysticism; prophecies; spiritual insight
23rd Psalm whispered to shepherd boy (48:6.20)
Adjuster constantly communicates (101:4.3) (108:6.7) (110:1.1)
Adjuster’s direct voice may be heard in supreme decision (109:5.2) (110:7.9)
capacity of receptivity determines rate and extent of (52:2.3)
certain wise men of earth knew of Michael’s impending arrival (119:7.6)
cosmic mind endowments of causation, duty, and worship (16:6.10)
every intense emotional experience is not a r. (91:7.3-4) (100:5.6-7)
flashes upon earth in lives of God-revealing men (132:7.6)
God answers prayer by giving increased (91:8.11)
God unfailingly manifests himself to fullness of creature’s capacity (1:4.5-6)
human experience is continuous r. (101:2.12)
hunger for truth is a r. (102:3.12)
Nalda’s checkered past came before her (143:5.13)
often blinds a person, precipitating fanaticism (110:4.5)
we should obey divine leadings (34:5.5)
word often spoken by angels (113:0.1)
Prince’s staff originally sought progression by evolution and not revolution by r. (66:6.6)
progress dependent on faith and r. (19:5.12)
propounded by real spiritual world; is true (92:4.3) (101:4.3)
should not be slighted if accompanied by errors, obsolete ideas (101:4.1) (102:1.3)
sometimes error so great that rectification by r. would be fatal to slowly emerging truths (48:6.32)
without celestial help, society breaks down (68:3.4-5)

Cross-references

See also religion
See also leadings
See also Urantia Papers
See also mysticism
See also prophecies
See also spiritual insight

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