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   Analysis from the time of Jesus to the present day

   The European darkness of obscurantism. By becoming an appendage of society and a helper of politicians, the church doomed itself to intellectual and spiritual decline; the so-called "age of obscurity" began in Europe. At that time, religion took on an increasingly monastic, ascetic and law-abiding character. Spiritually, Christianity was inactive. Throughout this period, alongside the passive, uninfluenced religion, there was a continuous stream of mysticism—the eccentric spiritual experience bordering on unreality and philosophically akin to pantheism.

   The problem of modernity. The twentieth century brought new problems for Christianity and all other religions to solve. The higher civilization rises, the more urgent becomes the need to "seek first of all heavenly realities" in all human efforts to stabilize society and help solve its material problems.

   Truth is often dead-end and even misleading if it is dissected, isolated, and over-analyzed. Living truth teaches the truth-seeker rightly only when it is viewed as a whole as a living spiritual reality, and not as a fact of material science or a source of inspiration for intermediate art.

   Materialism. Scientists have inadvertently led humanity into a materialistic panic, making a frivolous foray on the shore of centuries-old morality, but this shore of human experience holds vast spiritual reserves; he is able to satisfy the demand. Only unreasonable people can panic about humanity's spiritual assets. When the material-spiritual panic is over, the religion of Jesus will not be bankrupt. The spiritual bank of the Kingdom of Heaven will repay the faith, hope, and moral confidence of all who draw from the accounts of "His Name."

   The vulnerability of materialism. How ridiculous it is that materialistic man allows such vulnerable theories as the mechanistic universe to rob him of the vast spiritual resources locked up in the personal experience of true religion. Unlike theory, facts never contradict unadulterated religious belief. It would be far better if science devoted itself to destroying superstitions instead of trying to disprove religion - man's belief in spiritual realities and divine values.

   Christianity has indeed done this world a great service, but today people need Jesus first. The world needs to see Jesus again living on Earth in the experience of spirit-born mortals skillfully revealing the Teacher to all men. It is useless to speak of a revival of primitive Christianity; you must continue the journey from where you are today. Modern culture must undergo a spiritual baptism with a new revelation about the life of Jesus, it must be enlightened by a new understanding of his Gospel for eternal salvation. And after such exaltation, Jesus will draw all people to himself. Disciples of Jesus must be not only conquerors, but abundant sources of inspiration and a better life for every person. Religion is only a manifestation of noble humanism until the discovery of the reality of God's presence in personal experience makes it divine.

   Always remember: God and man need each other. They are mutually necessary for the full and final attainment of the eternal personal experience of the divine purpose revealed in universal completion.

   The great hope for Urantia is connected with the possibility of the new revelation of Jesus through a new, expanded exposition of his saving teaching, which would unite in loving spiritual service the many groups of those who today call themselves his followers.

 

  Compiled and presented by a Commission of Intermediate Beings residing on Urantia (Planet Magnificent) or as we humans call this planet Earth.