I do not know much about The Urantia Book.There is a lot that can be said about The Urantia Book because it is over 2000 pages long and covers a lot of different topics- theology, cosmology, philosophy, the history of our planet (the book says the name of our planet is Urantia), and the ENTIRE life and teachings of Jesus." (Some things said about Jesus in The Urantia Book are consistent with what is said in the Bible and some things are not. But this is not the place for that topic.) The internal consistency of The Urantia Book comes from its claim that angels were the authors. Naturally, people who appreciate The Urantia Book love the teachings that are presented about theology, philosophy, and the life of Jesus. These are exquisite parts of the book to be sure. It is fair to say that these are the most important parts of the book. But they are not what UBtheNEWS is about or for. UBtheNEWS is about the scientific and historical information in The Urantia Book and the degree to which this information is corroborated by the various academic disciplines. At the time it was published, scientists and scholars generally accepted some of the scientific and historical information in The Urantia Book as true. Some of it was considered correct by only a very small minority at the time of publication, but has now become widely accepted as correct. And some of the things it says remain undiscovered and/or inconsistent with current science and scholarship. UBtheNEWS is here to catalogue these various issues and to support efforts that are being made to address what is still in the “undiscovered/inconsistent” category.
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