Worship, in Great Detail, Part 5

Worship, in Great Detail, Part 5 

1 hour, 5 minutes, 27 seconds long

Host Brother Dave, a Jesusonian

 

Samples in this podcast:

The Urantia Book, public domain   [my added comments are in these brackets]

PAPER 86. Early Evolution of Religion

86:0.1 The evolution of religion from the preceding and primitive worship urge is not dependent on revelation. The normal functioning of the human mind under the directive influence of the sixth and seventh mind-adjutants [worship and wisdom] of universal spirit bestowal is wholly sufficient to insure such development.

PAPER 87. The Ghost Cults

3. Ancestor Worship

87:3.1 The advancing ghost cult made ancestor worship inevitable since it became the connecting link between common ghosts and the higher spirits, the evolving gods. The early gods were simply glorified departed humans. [Today some Catholics still do the spiritual abomination of praying to 'glorified ascended human saints'. There are no 'saints'; God loves all humans and higher beings equally ! There should be no human intercessors between God and you; God's pure Spirit Essence indwells you continuously !]

PAPER 89. Sin, Sacrifice, and Atonement

89:0.1 Primitive man regarded himself as being in debt to the spirits, as standing in need of redemption. As the savages looked at it, in justice the spirits might have visited much more bad luck upon them. As time passed, this concept developed into the doctrine of sin and salvation. The soul was looked upon as coming into the world under forfeit — original sin. The soul must be ransomed; a scapegoat must be provided. The head-hunter, in addition to practicing the cult of skull worship, was able to provide a substitute for his own life, a scapeman. [The Bible teaches "original sin" and the "fall of man". Totally false ! God has decreed the continuous perfection of all mankind. Lucifer, Satan and others rebelled and fell from power, but not mankind as a whole. Today, this planet is in a great, new Spiritual Renaissance ! But you must see that with Spirit Vision, not the negative, secular humanistic news media.]

8. Redemption and Covenants

89:8.7 Primitive forms of prayer were nothing more nor less than bargaining with the spirits, an argument with the gods. It was a kind of bartering in which pleading and persuasion were substituted for something more tangible and costly. The developing commerce of the races had inculcated the spirit of trade and had developed the shrewdness of barter; and now these traits began to appear in man’s worship methods. And as some men were better traders than others, so some were regarded as better prayers than others. The prayer of a just man was held in high esteem. A just man was one who had paid all accounts to the spirits, had fully discharged every ritual obligation to the gods. [No matter how you pray or sacrifice, God never changes His perfect, all-Knowing, Fatherly will ! True prayer is only to help you conform to his perfect will.]

PAPER 90. Shamanism—Medicine Men and Priests

90:0.2 In the advancing concepts of primitive man the spirit world was eventually regarded as being unresponsive to the ordinary mortal. Only the exceptional among humans could catch the ear of the gods; only the extraordinary man or woman would be heard by the spirits. Religion thus enters upon a new phase, a stage wherein it gradually becomes secondhanded; always does a medicine man, a shaman, or a priest intervene between the religionist and the object of worship. And today most Urantia [Earth] systems of organized religious belief are passing through this level of evolutionary development. [No mere human intermediaries are between God in Jesus in Spirit here and you ! Practice true personal religion - personal God-consciousness at all times and in all places !]

5. Priests and Rituals

90:5.7 The priesthoods have done much to delay scientific development and to hinder spiritual progress, but they have contributed to the stabilization of civilization and to the enhancement of certain kinds of culture. But many modern priests have ceased to function as directors of the ritual of the worship of God, having turned their attention to theology — the attempt to define God. [A profound statement, author unknown: "If God were small enough for our finite human understanding, He would not be Big enough for our Real Needs !]

6. The Province of Prayer

91:6.7 But the efficacy of prayer in the personal spiritual experience of the one who prays is in no way dependent on such a worshiper’s intellectual understanding, philosophic acumen, social level, cultural status, or other mortal acquirements. The psychic and spiritual concomitants of the prayer of faith are immediate, personal, and experiential. There is no other technique whereby every man, regardless of all other mortal accomplishments, can so effectively and immediately approach the threshold of that realm wherein he can communicate with his Maker, where the creature contacts with the reality of the Creator, with the indwelling Thought Adjuster. [God's pure Spirit Essence within your mind; and God's Personal Presence in Jesus Christ Michael in Combined Spirit Union within you as the higher soul you ! The Adjuster and Jesus work as One in Spirit.]

 

 

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