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  • Welcome to

    • The Forum

      Read and listen to the papers while sharing your insights, all within the same discussion forum. It's an annotated, truly interactive Urantia Book! Consider how others might benefit from the margin notes scribbled all over your big blue book! You can also share your key takeaways when your local group is studying an individual paper.

      Please remember, this is a topical discussion series. Rather than start a new thread within a forum, please use the "Reply" button so that your insights will track with the topic. All posts should be germane to the topic and we reserve the right to remove questions or comments that are off-topic, off color, or outside the appropriate thread.

    • Searching URL

      UB Search is a search engine highly optimized for the Urantia Book. Troy Bishop has beheld "the genome" of the Fifth Epochal Revelation and was inspired to share it with you in the form of a truly useful tool for scholars. Users describe it as "Lightning fast!"

    • Defining - Webster's 1828 Dictionary URL

      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. 

    • Defining - Our Glossary
      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.
    • Discovering Human Sources URL
      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)
    • Comparing -Bible (KJV) URL

      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.

    • How the Urantia Book Became Available Page

      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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      This simple procedure helps us to protect serious discussions from spammy content. Even though this resource can be viewed by any visitor, both registration and enrollment are necessary if you want full privileges to post within the forums.

  • The Urantia Papers

    Where the forum view usually presents the most recent comments first, these pages present links to the papers in sequence. They will take you directly to the requested paper within ongoing discussion.

  • The Parables of Jesus

    • Read and Discuss the Parables of Jesus Forum
      "My beloved, you must always make a difference in teaching so as to suit your presentation of truth to the minds and hearts before you. When you stand before a multitude of varying intellects and temperaments, you cannot speak different words for each class of hearers, but you can tell a story to convey your teaching; and each group, even each individual, will be able to make his own interpretation of your parable in accordance with his own intellectual and spiritual endowments. You are to let your light shine but do so with wisdom and discretion" — Jesus

  • Opportunities for Service

    The following section highlights the lectures Jesus gave at Cymboyton's School of Religion and Philosophy. It may serve as the impetus for those looking to engage in a global educational service, to serve through the School of Statesmanship (SOS).  The SOS survey course, currently under development, will be free to all who seek an understanding of true statesmanship in the context or Urantia's potential for one world democracy; global government of, by, and for all of humankind.

    • Urmia Revisited

      This survey is designed to promote a culture that honors a tradition of borrowing the best from science, philosophy, and religion for the edification of all. We have placed special emphasis on the lectures Jesus gave, during his thirtieth year, while returning from a caravan trip to the Caspian. During these "Urmia Lectures," Jesus outlined a path forward, towards an era of light and life. He gave these lectures in the context of the time of their presentation, a time in which the world was a very different place. Even so, the principles he chose to highlight gracefully transcend time and are just as valid today. Accordingly, these lectures have been restated, within a contemporary context and modern phrasing. Your comments and references to relevant essays and treatises are encouraged.

      During his lectures, our now Sovereign Lord organized the topic of Sovereignty under three general headings.

      • Discussion: Sovereignty — Divine and Human Forum

        The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God — God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.

      • Discussion: Political Sovereignty Forum

        Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status.

      • Discussion: Law, Liberty, and Sovereignty Forum

        If one man craves freedom — liberty — he must remember that all other men long for the same freedom. Groups of such liberty-loving mortals cannot live together in peace without becoming subservient to such laws, rules, and regulations as will grant each person the same degree of freedom while at the same time safeguarding an equal degree of freedom for all of his fellow mortals. If one man is to be absolutely free, then another must become an absolute slave. And the relative nature of freedom is true socially, economically, and politically. Freedom is the gift of civilization made possible by the enforcement of LAW.

    • Cymboyton Amphitheatre

      On the largest of a group of islands, situated a short distance offshore near Urmia, was a lecture amphitheater — dedicated to the “spirit of religion.” This temple of religious philosophy had been built by a wealthy merchant citizen of Urmia and his three sons. This man was Cymboyton, and he numbered among his ancestors many diverse peoples. The teachers of various religions made a great effort to show how similar their religions were in regard to the fundamental things of this life and the next. There was but one doctrine which had to be accepted in order to gain a seat on this faculty — every teacher must represent a religion which recognized God — some sort of supreme Deity.

      • A Continuing Tradition Forum

        In this discussion forum we continue the Urmia tradition with topical studies led by our veteran cosmic rockers! These students of the Urantia Revelation have developed a passion for the subject matter and a certain contagion best termed enthousiasmos.

      • Now Playing! URL

        This virtual amphitheatre features works that recognize God in a way that is commensurate with the intellectual, societal and spiritual development of humankind.


      • We Rock Your World (WRYW) URL

        What happens when you take a bunch of "God Is" paragraphs from the Urantia Book, throw them into the hopper, and play them out through a randomizer. Well, by golly, you would get The Light and Life Broadcast (streamcast) at WRYW. Try it out!