Reply #166: Race and The Urant ia Book - JAMES H. PERRY, M.D., USA [View All]

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n the final analysis, it would be hardly proper to
use the words “greater” or “lesser” in contrasting the
destinies of the ascending orders of sonship. Every
such son of God shares the fatherhood of God, and
God loves each of his creature sons alike; he is no
more a respecter of ascendant destinies than is he of
the creatures who may attain such destinies. The
Father loves each of his sons, and that affection is
not less than true, holy, divine, unlimited, eternal,
and unique—a love bestowed upon this son and
upon that son, individually, personally, and
exclusively. And such a love utterly eclipses all other
facts. Sonship is the supreme relationship of the
creature to the Creator <454:2>.
So how is one to reconcile his ideals of the
Heavenly Father with presented facts that
supposedly originated with beings that represent
Him? Well, for one thing, to just focus on the fact
of the inequalities of the races would be erroneous,
for we are instructed in The Urantia Book: Philosophers
commit their gravest error when they are misled into the
fallacy of abstraction, the practice of focusing the attention
upon one aspect of reality and then of pronouncing such an
isolated aspect to be the whole truth. The wise philosopher will
always look for the creative design which is behind, and
pre-existent to, all universe phenomena. The creator thought
invariably precedes creative action <42:6>.

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There is
in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of
all his vast domains, and this plan is an eternal purpose of
boundless opportunity, unlimited progress, and endless life.
And the infinite treasures of such a matchless career are
yours for the striving! <365:3>


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“Although you
cannot escape the recognition of differential human abilities
and endowments in matters intellectual, social, and moral,
you should make no such distinctions in the spiritual
brotherhood of men when assembled for worship in the
presence of God” <1468:3>.

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In summary, the divine plan called for the
evolution of mortal man from animals; secondly,
after the arrival of mortal man, it called for
extraplanetary personalities to guide and direct the
evolving humans, to organize society along moral
and ethical lines, and to rid the races of the debased
human stock that occurred as a result of human
mating with their animal cousins before the ability
to reproduce with them ended. This part of the
divine plan was derailed when Caligastia, the
Planetary Prince, joined the Lucifer Rebellion.
Secondly, the biological plan of uplifting the
races was also prematurely ended when Adam and
Eve degraded themselves to mortal status after
subsequently defaulting on their divine trust, thus
diluting the continuous stream of superior life plasm
that was designed to upstep the races. This
compounded the plight of the evolutionary races,
not withstanding that some gains were made to
uplift the races. The blue race received most of this
infusion of superior life plasm which eventually
produced the white race and the dominant culture
on the planet. As the races continued to evolve, we
eventually arrived at the stage where we are today.
Though the Spirit of Truth, as a result of Michael’s
bestowal, allows for the escape of individuals from
the double default spiritually, the races must now
proceed using largely human methods for race
improvement.
If we view the narration of the six evolutionary
races without the context of the planetary rebellion
and the Adamic default, it certainly appears that The
Urantia Book is racist and is designed only for the
white culture. However, careful study of the
revelation yields that insight which shows that this
is not the case. Is The Urantia Book racist? No! But
the races are, no doubt due to the lack of adequate
spirituality and subsequent lack of brotherly love.
The revelators are forced to tell the story as it
happened, not as it should have happened. Even
so, they tell what the destiny of the race problem is.
The races will eventually blend, and there will only
be one race. In the meantime, we should pay
attention to the reasons given for the evolution of
different races having differing potentials for
intellectual and spiritual receptivity.
We are told in The Urantia Book that evelation
is evolutionary but always progressive. Down through the
ages of a world’s history, the revelations of religion are
ever-expanding and successively more enlightening. It is the
mission of revelation to sort and censor the successive religions
of evolution. But if revelation is to exalt and upstep the
religions of evolution, then must such divine visitations
portray teachings which are not too far removed from the
thought and reactions of the age in which they are presented.
Thus must and does revelation always keep in touch with
evolution. Always must the religion of revelation be limited
by man’s capacity of receptivity <1007:1>. But even with
this being the case, it is not surprising that not all
people who pick up this book and browse through
or read it are prepared to assimilate its teachings.
The test of spiritual readiness is the ability to
comprehend and assimilate.
In the final analysis, The Urantia Book as a
divine revelation must ultimately be validated by
the faith of the individual. While it is true that
many historical facts can be verified from our own
records, there are many more that cannot, since
these events occurred before historical times, that
is, before written records were in use. I suppose a
lot of the questions and doubts that we have
concerning certain aspects of the fifth epochal
revelation are the unsuccessful worthy efforts of the
material mind to bypass the faith test. Like the
concept of the friendly universe, the creation of the
six evolutionary races with varying intellectual and
spiritual capacities requires spiritual insight to
discern the loving hand of the Father at work.

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