The Urantia Book

This four chapter book simply defies any simple explanation. This does not imply complex intelligence and aptitude to understand and follow the truths that are presented so beautifully. There are simple as well as complex presentations on a vast scale to anyone employing a fiery curiosity as well as a modicum of dedication to understanding. I personally characterize the 4th chapter as “the thinking mans bible” as regards the deep spiritual content and emotional detail associated with Jesus life in the flesh. There are numerous portions throughout the book that are difficult if not impossible of comprehension but this is not a complaint, just a notation of our limitations of our understanding. There are numerous “gems of wisdom” that stopped me in my tracks as I read them. It became very evident throughout the volumes that “They” have a deep and vast understanding of human nature, our strengths as well as our many weaknesses. The amount of information presented is somewhat overwhelming but given the context of a presentation of cosmic and spiritual realities at a level that we can grasp and understand, this is again, just notation. If you have a fiery curiosity and some level of dedication you will find many answers to your questions .

The book has changed my life. I had a hard copy of the book I bought from a thrift store for one dollar! The thrift store was next for to my store. I closed the store for the day and was on my way home and something came over me telling me to go back to the thrift store and buy a book. The store was nearly a half mile or more from where I was and I walked all the way back, went in the store and the very first book I picked up was The Urantia! I opened it up and started randomly skimming through it and I automatically knew I had to have this book!

I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself a “student” of the Papers per se, but around last spring I became introduced to this cool little volume. I was especially intrigued by its fourth section on the life and teachings of Jesus. As a Christian it was cool to read a kind of “sci-fi Bible” where the story of the Old Testament and the story of the New are all just one part of an overarching cosmic drama that spans eons. Three suggestions I have for the app are just stylistic choices. I’m a fan of EB Garamond as a font so if there were a few more font selections that’d be dandy. Also maybe a “red text” version (heck maybe a “blue text” version) on the app’s settings where the words of Jesus are in red (a la the Truthbook website) or stand out somehow would be a good touch. A third idea is just one that pleases my OCD brain aesthetically - a justified text option on the settings. Overall, nice app, nice book, nice story - a cool read, even though I don’t necessarily believe all that it has to say.

I’ve been studying the Urantia book for over 40 years. This is by far the best electronic edition you can get. It’s laid out in the exact same format as the original print editions, down to the way the paragraphs are set, and italicized words. These are important subtleties that many electronic versions miss. You have lots of format options (language, paragraph and page numbering and more) And the search engine is fantastic - I highly recommend paying the extra couple of bucks to have this excellent tool.

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People need to do more personal in-depth research on the validity of any kind of religious/spiritual/metaphysical literature that they may dare take to heart, as this book itself is full of man-made nonsense. This book has been proven to be a fraud by various literary analyses, showing how more recent science and archaeological finds have disproven many of this book’s erroneous statements. I first thought this book might be worthwhile, but as soon as I looked online for the background and origins of this book, the search results made it all immediately clear to me- this book is just one of many pieces of literature that claims to provide some kind of divine insight, that’s actually a bunch of nonsense being fabricated by human hands— not at all “divinely inspired”.