Oh God! My heavenly Father, with all my heart, I accept you as my spiritual Father. Thank you for your infinite love towards me. I embrace your love with all of my heart, mind, and soul. I yearn to have a personal revelational encounter with you. I seek a Father-son relationship with you. God, my spiritual Father, I accept your divine forgiveness of any and all of my sins. May I walk in your divine love and spiritual power in my dealings with others. I make a wholehearted commitment to do your will. In faith, I ask all these under your great grace, in the name above all other names. Amen. Thank you, God, my SOURCE! I adore and worship you! 
 

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In a world overflowing with information and distractions, it's easy to lose sight of what truly matters. The 'Urantia Book' offers profound insights, one of which states, “Virtue is righteousness—conformity with the cosmos. To name virtues is not to define them, but to live them is to know them.” This statement resonates deeply, especially for the youth navigating the complexities of modern life.

​ Understanding Virtue:

At its core, virtue is about aligning ourselves with the greater good, with the universal principles that guide our existence. It's not enough to simply list virtues like kindness, honesty, and compassion; true understanding comes from living them.

Consider kindness, for example. It’s easy to say, “I will be kind,” but real transformation happens when you actively practice kindness—whether by helping a friend in need, volunteering in your community, or simply offering a smile to a stranger. Each small act contributes to a larger tapestry of goodness, creating ripples that can inspire others.

 The Journey of Living Virtue:

For many young people, the journey of discovering and embodying virtue can be daunting. Social media, peer pressure, and societal expectations can cloud our understanding of right and wrong. However, embracing virtue offers a powerful antidote to these challenges.

1. Self-Reflection: Take time to reflect on your values. What virtues resonate with you? Understanding what you stand for is the first step in living a virtuous life.

2. Practice Mindfulness: Being present in the moment allows you to recognize opportunities to act virtuously. Whether it’s in your interactions or decisions, mindfulness helps you choose actions that align with your values.

3. Create a Supportive Community: Surround yourself with people who inspire you to be better. Engaging with like-minded individuals can encourage you to practice and uphold virtues together.

4. Learn from Mistakes: No one is perfect. Embrace failures as learning experiences. Each misstep is an opportunity to grow and refine your understanding of virtue.

​ The Impact of Living Virtue

When you embody virtues such as integrity, empathy, and respect, you contribute to a more harmonious society. Your actions can inspire others, creating a ripple effect that promotes positive change. Imagine a world where everyone strives to live virtuously—where kindness and understanding are the norms rather than exceptions.

​ Conclusion:

As you navigate the challenges of youth, remember that virtue is a journey, not a destination. Each small act of righteousness brings you closer to understanding your place in the cosmos. The call to live virtuously is a call to live authentically.

Embrace this challenge, and you will not only enrich your life but also the lives of those around you. In living these virtues, you will find a deeper connection to yourself, to others, and to the universe. So go forth, embody virtue, and watch as the world transforms around you.

Ayo 

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Clean and unclean things. Stoning guilty offenders to death. Marrying your late brother's wife. Agricultural laws. Human and animal blood sacrifices. Worship temples having the outer court, inner court, and innermost court with various Priests and a High Priest (Chief Priest). Etc. Everything you see in Judaism was already being practiced by other religions thousands upon thousands of years before there was anything called, "Judaism". So please, who copied who? 

Now, please why did God allow blood sacrifices? You have to understand that salvation, divine favor, divine blessings, etc come by grace through faith and faith alone. Faith in God that he is your spiritual Father and that he loves you. But primitive man found it extremely difficult to grasp unto faith, a spiritual substance, without going through something that is physically tangible to him. He strongly felt he needed to bring in some "works."

Even when Jesus was here, we saw a woman who found it very difficult to walk in faith and faith alone in order to receive her healing. She strongly believed that she had to do something physically tangible like touching the hem of his garment. To this day, some people struggle to exercise faith without a physical intermediary. 

Primitive man insisted on paying something very expensive or offering a very costly physical sacrifice in order to get God's attention. Spiritual realities like grace, faith, and love were just too abstract for him to comprehend. Something outward or visible needed to be brought in to help him gravitate towards the invisible. And what could be more expensive or costlier than a human life! As a result, human blood sacrifices became popular worldwide for thousands upon thousands of years, long, long, long before there were prophets like Moses. 

God, our heavenly Father ministers to us directly. He also ministers to us through his angels: sanobim angels, cherubim angels, seraphim angels, etc. These angels, working with religious leaders worldwide succeeded in prevailing on some of them to replace human blood sacrifices with animal blood sacrifices. If man could not immerse himself in faith and faith alone and in sacrifices of a broken heart, a contrite heart, a repentant heart alone BUT INSISTS ON offering his costliest possession - children as sacrifices; if he cannot make that leap from human blood sacrifice to faith and faith alone, then he could be met halfway. At least, it would be better to get him to replace the humans with his choicest animals. The senseless killings of fellow human beings had to stop! 

God never ever needed blood. It was the very slow growth of man that called for it. You are saved by grace through faith and faith alone; not by works.

Peace and Blessings! 
Brother Karo E.K.D. Akamune 
The Christ Michael Center 

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Yes, God inspired people to write scriptures. And God has not stopped inspiring people to write scriptures or spiritual materials. That God inspires you to write a message does NOT mean every single thing you write is going to be infallible, inerrant, and/or absolute. God inspires you to write does not mean God will miraculously take over your mind, your hand and all your faculties and then write every single thing through you. 

2 Timothy 3:16 has been greatly misunderstood. The Apostle Paul who wrote that statement also indicated to us that some things in his letters that he wrote were his own views not God's instructions or message. For example, in 1 Corinthians 7:12, "To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If any brother has a wife who is not a believer and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her." In addition, in 1 Corinthians 13:9, he said, "For we know in part, and we prophesy in part." 

Now please, why would you then take every single word written by such a brother to be infallible, inerrant, and absolute? He has already told you, directly and indirectly that some of what he was writing were his own personal opinions. This does not mean he was not inspired to write.  

God inspires you to write a book does not mean you will not include your own opinions. And yes, people can learn from your own opinion, but it will be wrong, and it can be very disastrous if they regard your opinion as "the know all and be all of it all" - as totally infallible, inerrant, and absolute. When you read any book, including the Urantia Book, the Bible, Quran, Gita, etc, you should submit to the Spirit of Truth to teach you. You should not blindly accept every single thing. If you blindly and foolishly accept every single thing without having a fruitful understanding of what you have accepted, you are most likely going to run into some serious problems. 

Sincerely accept what you can accept now. Leave the rest. With time, you will learn more, and maybe accept some more. YOU CANNOT UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY OR ONE YEAR. God does not have a gun to your head that you must accept everything. Our heavenly Father does not work that way, please. We learn and grow, little by little. The most important thing is not that you understand everything right now. The most important thing is that you have received salvation, and you are walking in love and in other fruits of the spirit. Do that. And little by little, you shall grow and wax very, very great in God's kingdom.

Paul himself did not know that future generations will take his every word as infallible, inerrant, and absolute. These people have created a lot of problems for themselves as a result. And we see these terrible problems playing out in their lives before our very eyes. Paul had his strengths and his weaknesses. He had his successes and his failures... ...Just like you and I. The only totally perfect human being was Jesus. We can, and should add Melchizedek to this list of flawless messengers. 

The Revelators of the Urantia Book highlighted Paul's great contributions and also his shortcomings. We are to learn from his strengths and weaknesses. The Urantia Book quotes a lot from Paul's teachings and also the teachings of various people. The UB is very fair and unbiased. Paul himself never said he knew it all. In short, he said he knew in part - partially. So, please, always bear this in mind when you read his letters. He didn't have all the answers. He got some right and got some wrong.

Paul never said everything he wrote was absolutely correct. He didn't say that, please. Some people are saying that today. But Paul himself never said that. Every single teaching must be brought under the radar of the teachings of Jesus. That's how you do it. Jesus never ever said a book will teach you. But he said THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH will teach you. I pray we understand why he said that. Please, listen to this message, from the beginning to the end. It will help you a lot: "Who Is Your Teacher: God Or A Book?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDB_VNxeX9E

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Truth Seekers in Nigeria”

A Urantia Book conference in Nigeria heard a school teacher’s interesting ideas about reaching young Christians.

As ten study group leaders in Lagos took turns to speak during a meeting on September 6, 2024, to review their progress for the year, one story stood out.

Tosin Oyewol, a school teacher (pictured above), started reading The Urantia Book in 2010 because it was about Jesus, and she was a Christian. While she soon realized that it conflicted with her Bible based understanding, she found it curiously reassuring to her spirit, writes Emeka Anazodo, coordinator of the Urantia Peace Initiative (UPI) that organized the Lagos Urantia Conference where the leaders’ meeting took place.

Although the book was a lot to take in for a hardcore Christian such as Tosin, she persisted with an open mind. In his report on the conference, Emeka says Tosin got so inspired by the book that she decided to share her newfound truth with her church companions. “But, being a Christian, she knew firsthand how hard it would be for them to accept the new perspectives presented by the book.”

So she decided to devise a way to share the teachings of the book without making it confrontational in areas of apparent contradiction with Bible teachings. “Being a school teacher, she decided to form a club for her students where she would emphasize one philosophy based on the teachings of The Urantia Book,” Emeka writes. 

“She was still thinking of a name for her club when the screening of Pato Banton’s documentary, 'The  Spirit of Ubuntu,' was announced for April 7, 2024. She named her club Ubuntu, and used beautiful quotes from the book to back this African philosophy.”  

Tosin Oywol and her Ubuntu Club

Tosin now uses her Sunday school class to skillfully raise the curiosity of her students on questions created by gaps in some Bible teachings, and then she  provides satisfying bridges for those gaps by suggesting research into The Urantia Book. Some of her students’ parents have become comfortable with reading the book through her creative approach. And so, her Ubuntu club—a Urantia Book study group—is thriving, reports Emeka.

Tosin’s testimony was an inspiration to all the leaders present, he adds. “It was also an assurance that the decision of the Urantia Peace Initiative to try to spread The Urantia Book without pressing anyone’s religious buttons was a sound one.”

The other leaders at the meeting were Emeka Anazodo (pictured below), Charity Charles, Shola Agagu, Michael Anazodo, Chike Martins, Emmanuel Ajewole, Blessing Odeyemi, Maya Anazodo, and Clement Odum.  A high point was a musical presentation by Chike Martins, a saxophonist who uses his music—a beautiful blend of African and Western jazz—to spread the teachings of The Urantia Book. 

The theme of the two-day conference, held on September 6 and 7, 2024, was “Ubuntu,” the African philosophy that emphasizes the interconnectedness of humanity and the importance of community, compassion, and mutual respect. 

Emeka reports that awareness of The Urantia Book is growing gradually in Nigeria. In 2022 the UPI hosted its first Urantia conference in Lagos on the theme “Religion of the Spirit” during which 60 copies of the book were handed out. The UPI Urantia Conference in 2023, on the theme “Contagious Love,” brought Urantia Book leaders together from across Nigeria. Meanwhile, a documentary called “The Spirit of Ubuntu,” by Pato Banton and Antionette Rootsdawtah, was screened in Lagos in April 2024.

“These events have contributed immensely to a remarkable surge in the awareness and interest surrounding The Urantia Book among truth seekers in Nigeria,” writes Emeka.

“Nigeria's unique cultural and spiritual landscape is at present further catalyzing the book’s growth in popularity within the region, as some religious organizations are already secretly or openly incorporating its teachings in their doctrines. A typical example is the Positive Way Mission Church in Lagos. 

“This year’s conference theme, presentation topics, and organization were carefully chosen with Nigeria’s rich tapestry of religions and philosophies in mind. The conference therefore provided a fertile ground for many spiritually inclined and curious individuals to rub minds and relish the unique perspectives presented by The Urantia Book.”  

The objectives of this year’s conference were to further the aims of last year’s event and to consolidate its gains—and to these extents the program was very successful, reports Emeka.

Attendance and enthusiasm were higher than last year, with attendance reaching 82 persons despite the fact that Nigeria was at the peak of a transportation crisis caused by an all-time hike in the pump price of petrol. More group leaders emerged, while a study group created last year, as an offshoot of the conference, attended as a group and made some presentations. Furthermore, vibrant new Urantia-based WhatsApp groups have been created.

“Urantia Peace Initiative is particularly grateful for the financial support it received from the Mustard Seed Grants Fund of Urantia Foundation and to the International Fellowship Committee of The Urantia Book Fellowship for providing part of the matching funds that made this event possible,” says Emeka. 

“And last, but certainly not least, the UPI wishes to thank wholeheartedly all contributors  and participants of this event for making it informative as well as enjoyable!

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