The BackDrop of the Jesus Drama as Portrayed in the Urantia Book

The Backdrop of the Levant and the Times of Jesus

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The Life and Times of Jesus

 
The Life and Teachings of Our Master, Jesus,  and the backdrop of the Palestine Peoples at the time of his Bestowal. 
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The Urantia Book is all about perspectives and frameworks.

 If we understand the motivations, the limitations, the rules, the perspectives, and frameworks in which the authors present the material about Jesus, his earth life, his pre-life, and his post-life, we can begin to understand and appreciate not only the real reasons for his life, teachings, and bestowal in The Urantia Book, we can (if we have faith in what The Urantia Book is delivering to us) fully understand the perspective of the filtered concepts of all other religions, especially Christianity.

The concepts of all other religions (again, if we are approaching this from an assumption that The Urantia Book has integrated and presented religious concepts from a completely unique perspective to any other on the planet), we begin to see and appreciate the hand of man and the hand of God within the other religious writings.

     With growing maturity, respect, and understanding, we see that there are limitations with all writings (even The Urantia Book); that all true religion must be "consumed" and interpreted from a personal standpoint:

 
much like a buffet (author aside here: please refer to the word 'religion' as defined in The Urantia Book.) we have this beautiful spread of food with different choices, smells, and flavors. But, to and from God (or whatever deity you believe in), it is still the same food: it provides sustenance, strength; it renews and refreshes and is enjoyable by all of the senses. We partake of our own flavors and interpretations and we attempt to communicate the social aspect of that to others. 
(with apologies for comparing revelataion or religion to food);

What matters is that The Urantia Book portrayal of this aspect of God is most pleasing to those who are receptive to it. There are no stipulations on the participants of personal revelation. I would say that our gracious hosts have simply asked that we try every portion (of life, of religions, of spiritual experiences), even if just a small bit, much like what our mothers would say to us. If we enjoy that small bit, we can go get seconds.

And we can share our interpretation of it. That is the impression that I get from our world religions, these are man's interpretations of what God is trying to constantly communicate to us. 
To me, I partake of almost completely The Urantia Book because I have enjoyed the flavor. I keep coming back to the buffet table and taking another serving. 

Feel free to comment and enjoy these nuggets of spiritual food from The Urantia Book. 
 All quotes below are directly from The Urantia Book and are referenced from several sites.

Paper 21
The Paradise Creator Sons

(234.1) 21:0.1 THE Creator Sons are the makers and rulers of the local universes of time and space. These universe creators and sovereigns are of dual origin, embodying the characteristics of God the Father and God the Son. But each Creator Son is different from every other; each is unique in nature as well as in personality; each is the only-begotten Son of the perfect deity ideal of his origin.


1. Origin and Nature of Creator Sons

(234.6) 21:1.1 When the fullness of absolute spiritual ideation in the Eternal Son encounters the fullness of absolute personality concept in the Universal Father, when such a creative union is finally and fully attained, when such absolute identity of spirit and such infinite oneness of personality concept occur, then, right then and there, without the loss of anything of personality or prerogative by either of the infinite Deities, there flashes into full-fledged being a new and original Creator Son, the only-begotten Son of the perfect ideal and the powerful idea whose union produces this new creator personality of power and perfection.


(235.1) 21:1.2 Each Creator Son is the only-begotten and only-begettable offspring of the perfect union of the original concepts of the two infinite and eternal and perfect minds of the ever-existent Creators of the universe of universes. There never can be another such Son because each Creator Son is the unqualified, finished, and final expression and embodiment of all of every phase of every feature of every possibility of every divine reality that could, throughout all eternity, ever be found in, expressed by, or evolved from, those divine creative potentials which united to bring this Michael Son into existence. Each Creator Son is the absolute of the united deity concepts which constitute his divine origin.




2. The Creators of Local Universes

(235.4) 21:2.1 The Paradise Sons of the primary order are the designers, creators, builders, and administrators of their respective domains, the local universes of time and space, the basic creative units of the seven evolutionary superuniverses. A Creator Son is permitted to choose the space site of his future cosmic activity, but before he may begin even the physical organization of his universe, he must spend a long period of observation devoted to the study of the efforts of his older brothers in various creations located in the superuniverse of his projected action. And prior to all this, the Michael Son will have completed his long and unique experience of Paradise observation and Havona training.


(235.5) 21:2.2 When a Creator Son departs from Paradise to embark upon the adventure of universe making, to become the head, virtually the God of the local universe of his own organization, then, for the first time, he finds himself in intimate contact with, and in many respects dependent upon, the Third Source and Center. The Infinite Spirit, though abiding with the Father and the Son at the center of all things, is destined to function as the actual and effective helper of each Creator Son. Therefore is each Creator Son accompanied by a Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit, that being who is destined to become the Divine Minister, the Mother Spirit of the new local universe.



    (236.2) 21:2.4 1. Energy-matter is dominated by the Infinite Spirit. Before any new forms of things, great or small, may be created, before any new transformations of energy-matter may be attempted, a Creator Son must secure the consent and working co-operation of the Infinite Spirit.

    (236.3) 21:2.5 2. Creature designs and types are controlled by the Eternal Son. Before a Creator Son may engage in the creation of any new type of being, any new design of creature, he must secure the consent of the Eternal and Original Mother Son.

    (236.4) 21:2.6 3. Personality is designed and bestowed by the Universal Father.



Paper 121
The Times of Michael's Bestowal

(1332.1) 121:0.1 ACTING under the supervision of a commission of twelve members of the United Brotherhood of Urantia Midwayers, conjointly sponsored by the presiding head of our order and the Melchizedek of record, I am the secondary midwayer of onetime attachment to the Apostle Andrew, and I am authorized to place on record the narrative of the life transactions of Jesus of Nazareth as they were observed by my order of earth creatures, and as they were subsequently partially recorded by the human subject of my temporal guardianship. Knowing how his Master so scrupulously avoided leaving written records behind him, Andrew steadfastly refused to multiply copies of his written narrative. A similar attitude on the part of the other apostles of Jesus greatly delayed the writing of the Gospels.
1. The Occident of the First Century after Christ

(1332.2) 121:1.1 Jesus did not come to this world during an age of spiritual decadence; at the time of his birth Urantia was experiencing such a revival of spiritual thinking and religious living as it had not known in all its previous post-Adamic history nor has experienced in any era since. When Michael incarnated on Urantia, the world presented the most favorable condition for the Creator Son's bestowal that had ever previously prevailed or has since obtained. 
 

Paper 122
Birth and Infancy of Jesus

(1344.1) 122:0.1 IT WILL hardly be possible fully to explain the many reasons which led to the selection of Palestine as the land for Michael's bestowal, and especially as to just why the family of Joseph and Mary should have been chosen as the immediate setting for the appearance of this Son of God on Urantia.











(1344.2) 122:0.2 After a study of the special report on the status of segregated worlds prepared by the Melchizedeks, in counsel with Gabriel, Michael finally chose Urantia as the planet whereon to enact his final bestowal. Subsequent to this decision Gabriel made a personal visit to Urantia, and, as a result of his study of human groups and his survey of the spiritual, intellectual, racial, and geographic features of the world and its peoples, he decided that the Hebrews possessed those relative advantages which warranted their selection as the bestowal race. Upon Michael's approval of this decision, Gabriel appointed and dispatched to Urantia the Family Commission of Twelve selected from among the higher orders of universe personalities which was intrusted with the task of making an investigation of Jewish family life. When this commission ended its labors, Gabriel was present on Urantia and received the report nominating three prospective unions as being, in the opinion of the commission, equally favorable as bestowal families for Michael's projected incarnation .