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Key findings about Americans’ belief in God

Paul Kemp Administrator — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:05:58 -0400

Key findings about Americans’ belief in God

BY DALIA FAHMY

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In recent years, the share of American adults who do not affiliate with a religious grouphas risen dramatically. In spite of this trend, the overwhelming majority of Americans, including a majority of the religiously unaffiliated – those who describe themselves, religiously, as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in particular” – say they believe in God or a higher power, according a new Pew Research Center survey conducted in December of 2017. At the same time, only a slim majority of Americans now believe in the God of the Bible and roughly one-in-ten U.S. adults don’t believe in any higher power or spiritual force.

Here are six key takeaways from the report:

Source PEW Reseach Center

Being Christian in Western Europe

Paul Kemp Administrator — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 22:45:45 -0400

Being Christian in Western Europe

The majority of Europe’s Christians are non-practicing, but they differ from religiously unaffiliated people in their views on God, attitudes toward Muslims and immigrants, and opinions about religion’s role in society.

Source PEW Research Center

The 5th Epochal Revelation of God to All Mankind

Paul Kemp Administrator — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:15:12 -0400

INDEX OF THE URANTIA BOOK
A New Revelation of Truth Served up to This Day And Generation

There have been many events of religious revelation but only five of epochal significance. These were as follows:

1. The Dalamatian teachings. The true concept of the First Source and Center was first promulgated on Urantia by the one hundred corporeal members of Prince Caligastia's staff. This expanding revelation of Deity went on for more than three hundred thousand years until it was suddenly terminated by the planetary secession and the disruption of the teaching regime. Except for the work of Van, the influence of the Dalamatian revelation was practically lost to the whole world. Even the Nodites had forgotten this truth by the time of Adam's arrival. Of all who received the teachings of the one hundred, the red men held them longest, but the idea of the Great Spirit was but a hazy concept in Amerindian religion when contact with Christianity greatly clarified and strengthened it.

2. The Edenic teachings. Adam and Eve again portrayed the concept of the Father of all to the evolutionary peoples. The disruption of the first Eden halted the course of the Adamic revelation before it had ever fully started. But the aborted teachings of Adam were carried on by the Sethite priests, and some of these truths have never been entirely lost to the world. The entire trend of Levantine religious evolution was modified by the teachings of the Sethites. But by 2500 B.C. mankind had largely lost sight of the revelation sponsored in the days of Eden.

3. Melchizedek of Salem. This emergency Son of Nebadon inaugurated the third revelation of truth on Urantia. The cardinal precepts of his teachings were trust and faith. He taught trust in the omnipotent beneficence of God and proclaimed that faith was the act by which men earned God's favor. His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.

4. Jesus of Nazareth. Christ Michael presented for the fourth time to Urantia the concept of God as the Universal Father, and this teaching has generally persisted ever since. The essence of his teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father.

5. The Urantia Papers. The papers, of which this is one, constitute the most recent presentation of truth to the mortals of Urantia. These papers differ from all previous revelations, for they are not the work of a single universe personality but a composite presentation by many beings. But no revelation short of the attainment of the Universal Father can ever be complete. All other celestial ministrations are no more than partial, transient, and practically adapted to local conditions in time and space. While such admissions as this may possibly detract from the immediate force and authority of all revelations, the time has arrived on Urantia when it is advisable to make such frank statements, even at the risk of weakening the future influence and authority of this, the most recent of the revelations of truth to the mortal races of Urantia.

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Paul Kemp Administrator — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 10:37:33 -0400

Political Sovereignty by Joshua Ben Joseph The Prince of Peace,

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:57:33 -0400

Political Sovereignty - Joshua Ben Joseph - Prince of Peace,

Sovereignty Divine Human

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 18:29:22 -0400

Sovereignty Divine Human

Certification Youth in Act-Uganda - His Grace Children's Home

Paul Kemp Administrator — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:54:28 -0400

Certification Youth in Act-Uganda - His Grace Children's Home

CONSTITUTION Waiswa John Billy-Youth in Act-Uganda - His Grace Children's Home

Paul Kemp Administrator — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:36:23 -0400

CONSTITUTION Youth in Act-Uganda - His Grace Children's Home

The Life and Teachings of Jesus - The 5th Epochal Revelation of the Sons of God

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:24:36 -0400

The Life and Teachings of Jesus

Some day a reformation in the Christian church may strike deep enough to get back to the unadulterated religious teachings of Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

You may preach a religion about Jesus, but, perforce, you must live the religion of Jesus. In the enthusiasm of Pentecost, Peter unintentionally inaugurated a new religion, the religion of the risen and glorified Christ. The Apostle Paul later on transformed this new gospel into Christianity, a religion embodying his own theologic views and portraying his own personal experience with the Jesus of the Damascus road. The gospel of the kingdom is founded on the personal religious experience of the Jesus of Galilee; Christianity is founded almost exclusively on the personal religious experience of the Apostle Paul. Almost the whole of the New Testament is devoted, not to the portrayal of the significant and inspiring religious life of Jesus, but to a discussion of Paul's religious experience and to a portrayal of his personal religious convictions. The only notable exceptions to this statement, aside from certain parts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are the Book of Hebrews and the Epistle of James. Even Peter, in his writing, only once reverted to the personal religious life of his Master. The New Testament is a superb Christian document, but it is only meagerly Jesusonian.

The records contained herein fully disclose the religion Jesus lived and the teachings he gave to this world.

The Life and Teachings of Jesus from the 5th Epochal Revelations of the Sons of God

Paul Kemp Administrator — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:16:15 -0400

The Life and Teachings of Jesus

Some day a reformation in the Christian church may strike deep enough to get back to the unadulterated religious teachings of Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

The records contained herein fully disclose the religion Jesus lived and the teachings he gave to this world.