| Author | Message | ||
| Lucias (Lucias) |
No I'm not promoting this work so put down your pitchforks and torches ;-). But I am relating something I very recently learned. I find this fascinating. The Urantia Book was apparently written by a former SDA minister named Sadler, after he had parted ways with the Adventists and crossed swords with Ellen. He was specifically named as one who should submit his objections to Ellen so she could respond, as she had been shown in vision. She of course later got another vision that said "Never mind don't bother answering them" Sadler was an ordained minister, studied under Kellog at the San and became a practicing health reformer. Got into a variety of things. Rose in rank at the San apparently as well and was overseeing some more remote operations. After his falling away he took up psychology. He had a case with a nameless man who would talk in his sleep in the voice/names of various supermortal beings. He took down the mans comments and thus the Urantia book was born. He later founded the Urantia Foundation with some followers he had ginned up along the way. Some interesting links include : http://www.religioustolerance.org/urantia.htm http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/h_timlin_1.htmhttp://urantiabook.org/archive/history/h_timlin_2.htm Also, though I _REALLY_ hesitate to send anyone here www.urantiabook.org and search on "Adventist". Also google.com searching on sadler urantia adventist and combinations of those words. | ||
| Dennis (Dennis) |
Dr. Sadler was a colleague of Dr. John Kellogg. His Urantia Book reads alot like Ellen White's extrabiblical writings. It gives details about Biblical places and persons that are not given in Scripture. The Urantia Book is supposedly sacred because of its unknown human authorship. In my view, the intended audience would reflect the same type of persons that are intrigued with Adventist distinctives. The Urantia Book comes in an assortment of bindings, including leather. Sadly, the cultic Urantia Foundation in Chicago, hinges on its Adventist heritage. | ||
| Sherry2 (Sherry2) |
I went to the site. I'm appalled. It is just so sad that people do not want to accept the words of Christ from the Bible, but will look for every other way to make their own salvation. Deception is everywhere and it's sickening to see. Yuck!! One describes the book of Urantia as living words from the Master Jesus. It sounds more like a New Age book by what it goes on about. And written by celestial beings...though it's not supposed to be up to par with th Bible, it is capitalized always or referred to as the Book, and on and on I could go. I primarily checked it out because I'm going to Chicago in July. Whether it came out of Adventism or not doesn't really matter. It comes from the pit of hell period. From what I gathered, it doesn't seem to share in Adventist distintives at all for soul sleep, hell, or salvation. It's just disgusting. Anyhow, there's my two cents. | ||
| Lucias (Lucias) |
Shari, I tend to agree with your sentiment. Frankly, I haven't read, nor do I think anyone should, enough to know if there are any similarities. It is clearly NewAge and Demonic. The thing that amazed me, and the reason I posted it here in the first place is simply because I was rather shocked to learn it was started by a former SDA minister. Probably many had known that, I had not. | ||
| Steve (Steve) |
Hi, I read much of the Urantia Book and attended a Urantia brotherhood fellowship in Berkely, CA (my old stomping-grounds) in 1979/1980. I was primarily doing research for myself and had been asked (unofficially) to research it by the Spiritual Counterfeits Project, based in Berkely. I never actually wrote a paper on it, but did amass a good amount of information. The Urantia Book, like much in Adventism, appeals to the pseudo-intellectuals. The Urantia book, however, is an absolutely astounding work. HOWEVER, IT IS PATENTLY FALSE! in its religious AND broad scientific revelations. Avoid it. It can turn your brain into a gray pretzel, just like EGW but in ways she would have never been able to fathom. Steve |
