Urantia21: A Restatement of The Urantia Book for the 21st Century

“The evolution of religion has been traced from early fear and ghosts through many successive stages of development, including those efforts first to coerce and then to cajole the spirits.” “Religion ...

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“The earliest prayer forms were not addressed to Deity,” but “when the concepts of ghosts and spirits evolved, these petitions became addressed to the superhuman...” However, “Early humans did not per...

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“The evolution of religious observances progressed from placation, avoidance, exorcism, coercion, conciliation, and propitiation to sacrifice, atonement, and redemption. The technique of religious rit...

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“Primitive people regarded themselves as being in debt to the spirits, as standing in need of redemption.” “As time passed, this concept developed into the doctrine of sin and salvation. The soul was ...

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Fetishes are created to represent the spirits that reside in them. “At first, the spirit of a fetish was believed to be the ghost of a dead person; later on, the higher spirits were supposed to reside...

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“The ghost cult evolved as an offset to the hazards of bad luck; its primitive religious observances were the outgrowth of anxiety about bad luck and of the inordinate fear of the dead. None of these ...

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Tracing the development of religion continues with an analysis of the mysteries confronting humanity, including the function of luck (chance), the reality of death, and the concept of ghosts. “The eme...

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“In the evolution of the human species, worship in its primitive manifestations appears long before the minds of mortals are capable of formulating the more complex concepts of life now and in the her...

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