Worship, in Great Detail, Part 7

Worship, in Great Detail, Part 7 

52 minutes, 48 seconds long

Host Brother Dave, a Jesusonian

 

Samples in this podcast:

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

 

PAPER 97. Evolution of the God Concept among the Hebrews

5. The First Isaiah

97:5.6 Ever the burden of Micah’s message was: “Shall I come before God with burnt offerings? Will the Lord be pleased with a thousand rams or with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown me, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” And it was a great age; these were indeed stirring times when mortal man heard, and some even believed, such emancipating messages more than two and a half millenniums ago. And but for the stubborn resistance of the priests, these teachers would have overthrown the whole bloody ceremonial of the Hebrew ritual of worship. [The Jews believed that God wanted a blood sacrifice to forgive sins ! The apostle Paul continued with this barbaric "blood atonement" doctrine ! What a travesty on the always unconditionally loving and lavishly merciful Father nature of God ! HE IS exactly always loving and kind and friendly as our local universe Creator Father-Son of God Jesus Christ Michael IS ! They are One in Spirit and perfect will Union ! "Michael" is a title of Jesus Christ which means: "HE Who IS just like GOD" That is true to all humans and beings in Jesus' large local universe with now over 3.8 million human-inhabited planets; ten million at the end of this first, long, Supreme, Grand Universe Age]

PAPER 98. The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident

5. The Cult of Mithras

98:5.4 The adherents of this cult worshiped in caves and other secret places, chanting hymns, mumbling magic, eating the flesh of the sacrificial animals, and drinking the blood. Three times a day they worshiped, with special weekly ceremonials on the day of the sun-god and with the most elaborate observance of all on the annual festival of Mithras, December twenty-fifth. It was believed that the partaking of the sacrament ensured eternal life, the immediate passing, after death, to the bosom of Mithras, there to tarry in bliss until the judgment day. On the judgment day the Mithraic keys of heaven would unlock the gates of Paradise for the reception of the faithful; whereupon all the unbaptized of the living and the dead would be annihilated upon the return of Mithras to earth. It was taught that, when a man died, he went before Mithras for judgment, and that at the end of the world Mithras would summon all the dead from their graves to face the last judgment. The wicked would be destroyed by fire, and the righteous would reign with Mithras forever. [Much of those primitive beliefs were added to early Christianity ! God's perfect judgment-justice is Eternal Now; not off into the future ! Your sins are forgiven and you are still alive because God's judgment always includes His unconditional love and lavish mercy Ministry to you and to all ! Amen ! Accept Divine Forgiveness Now, and keep trying to become a little more Godlike - a little more as Jesus Christ IS ...]

7. The Christian Religion

98:7.1 A Creator Son did not incarnate in the likeness of mortal flesh and bestow himself upon the humanity of Urantia to reconcile an angry God but rather to win all mankind to the recognition of the Father’s love and to the realization of their sonship with God. After all, even the great advocate of the atonement doctrine [Paul] realized something of this truth, for he declared that “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.”

98:7.9 #6. The personal viewpoint of Paul of Tarsus. And it should be recorded that Mithraism was the dominant religion of Tarsus during his adolescence. Paul little dreamed that his well-intentioned letters to his converts would someday be regarded by still later Christians as the “word of God.” Such well-meaning teachers must not be held accountable for the use made of their writings by later-day successors. [Far more words in the New Testament are from Paul than from Jesus ! Follow only Jesus !]

98:7.11 As the original teachings of Jesus penetrated the Occident, they became Occidentalized, and as they became Occidentalized, they began to lose their potentially universal appeal to all races and kinds of men. Christianity, today, has become a religion well adapted to the social, economic, and political mores of the white races. It has long since ceased to be the religion of Jesus, although it still valiantly portrays a beautiful religion about Jesus to such individuals as sincerely seek to follow in the way of its teaching. It has glorified Jesus as the Christ, the Messianic anointed one from God, but has largely forgotten the Master’s personal gospel: the Fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of all men.

PAPER 101. The Real Nature of Religion

8. Faith and Belief

101:8.1 Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living. The acceptance of a teaching as true is not faith; that is mere belief. Neither is certainty nor conviction faith. A state of mind attains to faith levels only when it actually dominates the mode of living. Faith is a living attribute of genuine personal religious experience. One believes truth, admires beauty, and reverences goodness, but does not worship them; such an attitude of saving faith is centered on God alone, who is all of these personified and infinitely more.

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