Urantia isn't Christian, but then again neither was Jesus. He was some kind of apocalyptic Jew and would have been appalled at people treating him like a god. So I think it's perfectly okay for Urantia fans to argue their Jesusy obsessions with similarly affected groups, as long as they aren't hurting anyone.

www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-195-after-pentecost
Paper 195:9.8 page (2083.4) The world needs more firsthand religion. Even Christianity — the best of the religions of the twentieth century — is not only a religion about Jesus, but it is so largely one which men experience secondhand. They take their religion wholly as handed down by their accepted religious teachers. What an awakening the world would experience if it could only see Jesus as he really lived on earth and know, firsthand, his life-giving teachings! Descriptive words of things beautiful cannot thrill like the sight thereof, neither can creedal words inspire men’s souls like the experience of knowing the presence of God. But expectant faith will ever keep the hope-door of man’s soul open for the entrance of the eternal spiritual realities of the divine values of the worlds beyond.

Paper 195:10.5 page (2084.5) In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion that betokens the Jesusonian reaching forth to grasp his brother in love and sweep him on under spiritual guidance toward the higher and divine goal of mortal existence. Christianity even now willingly goes the first mile, but mankind languishes and stumbles along in moral darkness because there are so few genuine second-milers — so few professed followers of Jesus who really live and love as he taught his disciples to live and love and serve.

OK the video & 2 quotes are representative of my own opinion, much more than the other single link.

No. It is not recognized as a religion: it is a book. Period.

Where's that coming from

Maybe parts of it, cuz they seem to really be into Jesus.
On the other hand, lotta Christians seem to attack the Urantians, as a cult

Are the Urantian papers really christian in nature? voice your opinion.
If yes, why
If no , why

i resent that remark about Jesus which is also blasphemy

I don't know kb just says the same thing over and over and furch blocked me, didn't want to talk to me I guess
I only asked about chromosomes and electrons in atoms and surface temp. of the sun etc.

@ lmarcox3 Since you seem to be the strongest supporter in this thread for the urantia book I am curious how you reconcile the misstated facts contained in the book?

Why should we have to reinvent the wheel each time you have a question? Why don't you just read what 4ever suggested? Do you bother with FAQs or do you demand they be re-written each time in someone's own words?

n my opinion, the answer is both yes, and no.

No, because we do not follow Paul, who is the real driver of Christianity, Paul, who never met Jesus, and no too because the bible, particularly the "OT" is largely irrelevant and we don't worship it the way Protestant Christians do. And Catholics just ignore the bible when it suits them to do so and they declare their traditions are equal to or above the bible.

Yes, because in actuality, "Urantians" are really the true Christians, in that they are the true followers of Jesus, not Paul and not any other mere men. And Urantians are the ONLY ones who preach the pure gospel of salvation that Jesus preached, un-confused with any other so called gospels. The last 1/3rd of The Urantia Book contains essentially the New Testament, the story of Jesus' life and teachings, from the celestial records that God's agents (angels and such) kept of Jesus' activities on earth.

Ludlow likes to say, "What is the NT but the history of the Catholic church?"

But what it really is, what it really should be about is Jesus exclusively. And Part IV of The Urantia Book is that. Part IV of The Urantia Book is what the NT should have been. And until Paul showed up talking about Paul, that's what it could have been. If John was the apostle Jesus loved, Paul was the apostle Jesus never heard of.

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No. It is not recognized as a religion: it is a book. Period.

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Not recognized by who?

What if God recognizes it? Is that good enough for you? Does it have to be authorized by the pope? Is that what you're saying?

Urantia isn't Christian, but then again neither was Jesus. He was some kind of apocalyptic Jew and would have been appalled at people treating him like a god. So I think it's perfectly okay for Urantia fans to argue their Jesusy obsessions with similarly affected groups, as long as they aren't hurting anyone.

How far are you along with the book? Are you still reading it? Are you reading Part IV, "The Life and teachings of Jesus" yet?