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The Revelators wrote: "It is exceedingly difficult to present enlarged concepts and advanced truth, in our endeavor to expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception, when we are restricted to the use of a circumscribed language of the realm (0:0.2)." Use this resource to gain a deeper understanding of just how English terms were used at the time before the Urantia Book came into existence.
- In each paper, unfamiliar terms are introduced and colloquial terminology becomes nuanced in new and unique ways. This rapidly evolving glossary does not contain those terms where acceptable enough definitions are already contained in widely available English dictionaries. We have included only the unique concepts, terms, charts and photos, plus essays and treatments that are likely to prove useful to students of the revelation.
- The Urantia Book refers to the use of "more than one thousand human concepts . . . assembled from the God-knowing mortals of the past and the present" in the writing of Part I (0:12.12), and the use of the thoughts and expressions of "more than two thousand human beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the time of the inditing of these revelations" in the writing of Part IV (121:8.13)
This resource is a collection of some terms used in the King James Bible. It is provided here to help the Urantia Book student to understand how Bible Scholars define terms in ways that may differ from the working definitions a Urantia Book scholar is likely to use.
As a Contact Commissioner, Dr. William S. Sadler was instrumental in bringing the Urantia Papers into the Chicago Forum's discussions and general availability through publication.
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