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A My question is: Isn’t it a sin to commit adultery in the sight of God?

 ANSWER 

Beloved friend, blessings and light.

First, thank you for your honesty. These questions are important. Wrestling with them isn’t weakness—it’s the sign of a living, growing faith.

You’re not alone. I, too, have read sections of the Urantia Book that challenged what I thought I knew. At first, I resisted. It felt wrong because it conflicted with what I had been taught to believe.

But over time, I learned that my struggle wasn’t about the truth itself—it was about what I had been conditioned to think that truth should look like.

Let’s talk about Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

In traditional Christianity, the doctrine of the Virgin Birth is held up as proof of Jesus’ divinity. The logic is:

If Mary conceived naturally, Jesus would be just another human.

Therefore, to be divine, his conception had to be miraculous.

But the Urantia Book teaches something profoundly different, yet no less beautiful or sacred.

Jesus was truly human. He was the Son of Man as well as the Son of God.

Mary and Joseph were his real earthly parents. When you looked at Jesus, you saw his mother’s eyes, his father’s features. He had siblings—brothers and sisters. This wasn’t a flaw in God’s plan. It was the plan.

The divinity in Jesus wasn’t in the biological process of conception. It was in who he was, what he carried, and how he lived.

 His humanity was complete so that his divinity could be revealed perfectly.

He was the embodiment of God’s spirit—his Thought Adjuster perfectly fused with his human mind. That’s what made him the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Some struggle with this because they think it makes Jesus “less special.”

But is God less amazing because he worked through natural means? Or is he even more wondrous for planting divine truth in a humble, human story?

It doesn’t diminish God that Mary was Joseph’s wife. It doesn’t make Jesus less holy.

It shows that God meets us in our humanity. That the flesh was simply the vessel—what truly mattered was the divine spirit and matchless purpose within.

Now about Adam and Eve.

In many religious traditions, they’re seen as perfect, created flawless, until one catastrophic mistake.

But the Urantia Book gives a richer, more human picture:

Adam and Eve were not perfected beings—they were highly advanced, trained, but still capable of error.

Eve’s choice—to step outside the plan and seek a shortcut by mating with another man—wasn’t “adultery” in the narrow moral sense. It was a tragic mistake rooted in impatience and flawed human reasoning.

She thought she was fixing a problem, making a sacrifice to help, but she was departing from the divine plan.

The lesson is deeply human:

Don’t take desperate shortcuts when the plan seems slow.

Trust divine timing, even when it’s hard to understand.

Real solutions come through patience, faith, and obedience to God’s higher wisdom.

Even in failure, Adam and Eve weren’t rejected or destroyed. They faced consequences, yes—but they were redeemed. They learned, they grew, and ultimately they completed their ascension journey as faith sons and daughters of God.

That’s grace. That’s the Father’s love.

Let’s talk about sin.

The Urantia Book says:

Sin is deliberate disloyalty to Deity.

Sin isn’t simply breaking human rules or violating traditions. It’s the conscious, knowing rejection of God’s will.

Mary’s marriage to Joseph wasn’t sin. Jesus’ natural birth wasn’t sin. Eve’s mistake was not deliberate rebellion but human misunderstanding and impatience.

We need to examine what we believe.

Much of what we struggle with comes from ideas drilled into us:

Mary had to be a virgin or Jesus wasn’t divine.

Adam and Eve were perfect until one unexplainable failure.

Sin is anything outside the traditions we’ve inherited.

But why do we believe those things?

Where did they come from?

Who taught us?

Do they hold up under spiritual scrutiny?

The Urantia Book challenges us to rethink everything—to look beyond tradition and truly know God for ourselves.

And here’s the key: 

You have the greatest teacher within you.

Your Thought Adjuster.

Ask.

Listen.

Reflect.

Your Adjuster will not fail you. It is the very presence of God within you.

If you want to know what’s true—really know—ask your Adjuster.

Let it guide you. Let it counsel you. Let it show you what’s real and what’s merely human tradition.

I’ll end with this:

Don’t be afraid to question. Don’t be afraid to wrestle. Don’t be afraid to let go of ideas that don’t hold up in the light of truth.

Because truth is never afraid of questions.

And our Father is never offended by our search.

He welcomes it.

May your journey bring you deeper understanding, richer faith, and closer fellowship with the God who loves you beyond measure.