I feel that I would be failing in my love towards all my friends if I did not tell you this news. God's Secret Service has come and it is here now under the orders of Father, and with a mandate to arrest and remove from this world both mortals and supernatural beings who are fighting against the will of Father. Needless to say He is doing this for our own benefit, because He knows that our world, Urantia, is the worst dump in the whole of creation. But He also knows that it is not fully our own fault. Anyhow the Secret Service are only going to send the worst mortals as far as the Borderland. There is not such thing as hell. And after that they will get a second chance to go to heaven if they are willing to repent. All is not lost, even for them. However, in these three months, July, August and September 2012, it is the last great battle of good against evil on this little old world, and evil is not going to emerge triumphant. That I can guarantee. So this year, by the time you celebrate Durga Puja, it will have a meaning far greater than it ever had before, because this year Durga, among several others, will celebrate the final victory of good over evil. And, at least om this world, that situation is going to last forever. So, to the tune of "Land of Hope and Glory" you will hear me singing "Glory to the Father, Glory to the Son, Glory to the Spirit, Holy Three in One. Wider still and wider may Your Kingdom grow. It will last forever; we Your children Know. It will last forever, we Your children know."
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Getting answers to all your questions
June 29, 2012
Concerning the recent cataclysms
The reason the spiritual teachers are here
on our world
The new paradigm of Social Sustainability
God is unchangeable
The role played by churches
God’s relationship with the individual
Judgment
This is a “learning” universe
What is the afterlife like?
Is there a hell?
Regarding sacred books
The story of Adam and Eve
Did man come into being by fiat of God or evolution?
The concept of sin
The revelation of the three core values
When, in the afterlife, do we find out the
“real truth?”
Becoming aware of your own thinking
The concepts of original sin and atonement
The kingdom of heaven and the
The nature of God
The Creator Sons of God
The Eternal Son did not become Jesus
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Conversations with Monjoronson #53 – Basic questions
for new readers – June 29, 2012
[Note: The questions and answers in this transcript
are directed to those who are completely new to “The Urantia Book,” the
Teaching Mission and the Magisterial Mission.
It presents explanations to the questions that might be asked by
Christians, Jews and Muslims who are finding these transcripts on the Internet
and are having difficulty with the concepts that are contrary to their prior
religious training. A special glossary
is found at the end.]
Spiritual teacher: Monjoronson
Topics:
Concerning the recent cataclysms
The reason the spiritual teachers are here on our world
The new paradigm of Social Sustainability
God is unchangeable
The role played by churches
God’s relationship with the individual
Judgment
This is a “learning” universe
What is the afterlife like?
Is there a hell?
Regarding sacred books
The story of Adam and Eve
Did man come into being by fiat of God or evolution?
The concept of sin
The revelation of the three core values
When, in the afterlife, do we find out the “real truth?”
Becoming aware of your own thinking
The concepts of original sin and atonement
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God
The nature of God
The Creator Sons of God
The Eternal Son did not become Jesus
Getting answers to all your questions
Transmitter/Receiver: Daniel Raphael, Ph.D.
Moderator: Michael McCray, M.D.
June 29, 2012
Prayer: Dear Heavenly Father, creator of all
truth, beauty and goodness, creator of all material and spiritual reality in
the Grand Universe, be with us today and guide us in our work with Monjoronson,
that it may bring you glory. We thank
you for the abundance you have given us and most of all we thank you for your
unconditional love. We welcome
Monjoronson and his staff and thank them for their help in bringing more
information to our world and to us.
Amen.
MONJORONSON: This is
Monjoronson; I am here.
MMc: Good morning,
Monjoronson. Last time, we talked about
my preparing some basic questions for you.
I wondered if we might begin with that today? But before we do begin, do you have anything
to talk to us about?
Concerning the recent cataclysms
MONJORONSON: Yes,
briefly. You are now in the early phase
of the cataclysms, whether it is the State of Florida receiving 24 inches of
rain across the state in 24 hours, or whether it is the fires in Colorado that
have destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres, whether it is the earthquakes in
South America and around the Pacific Rim and other countries, or the social
crises—social, political, military—crises that are developing in the Middle
East and the continuing “dis-ease,” unsettlement and lack of political, social
and economic development in most of Africa—these are all cataclysms. These cataclysms will become more and more
aggravated, more meddlesome, difficult, to the point of being un-resolvable in
months and years to come.
As the population of your
world increases, and as the material resources decrease, the frictions between
individuals, families, communities, societies and whole nations will become
more and more inflamed. They will become
inflamed to the point where there will actually be no “fixing” the problems
that exist. Your people will be faced—at
least those people who have time to think in a reasoned manner about these
issues—will begin to think that the best way forward is to create new
solutions, solutions to existing situations rather than to fixing old
problems.
The reason the spiritual teachers are here
on our world
Our presence here is to
initiate that thinking, the thinking of creating solutions for the future. The future as it stands is always a problem,
always a difficulty, always an uncertainty.
But, when you begin creating plans for developing a sustainable future,
then you have begun to develop plans that will endure and which are rational
and reasonable, and that lead to further disclosure of difficulties in rational
ways that can be dealt with. Failure to
engage this type of creative thinking will perpetuate the problems that exist
on your world; in fact, they will exacerbate those problems because they will
begin to disturb the very efforts of healing.
This may seem illogical, but it is so that societies heal—eventually—when
people stop trying to reinforce old, inoperable, unsustainable ideologies and
methodologies and philosophies. Thank
you.
MMc: If I can
think of a metaphor for what you’ve just told us, at least the last part of it,
the present thinking on our world, of our present paradigm, has created the
wound. By trying to fix the wound by
using that present paradigm or that worldview, we simply aggravate the wound so
it has no chance to heal. (Monjoronson: Exactly.)
What’s needed is a new paradigm, a new worldview that would allow the
world to heal.
The new paradigm of Social Sustainability
MONJORONSON: The new
worldview is the way of social sustainability, which will require a complete
revision of the old worldviews and old world paradigms.
[Note: The subject of developing social
sustainability has been dealt with in numerous past transcripts by this
transmitter/receiver.)
God is unchangeable
MMc: The religions
of our world know God through their books—Jewish, Muslim and Christian
religions—all are aware of what I will call an “Old Testament God.” I think most of the individuals of these
religions perceive God as he is portrayed in the Old Testament. The God that Jesus calls “Our Father,” seems
to have quite a different temperament and relationship with individuals. If God is unchangeable, why is it that we see
changes in how he is perceived over time, from [the book of] Genesis through
Jesus?
MONJORONSON: God is
unchangeable and it is obvious that it is the observer who is changing.
MMc: So, it is
man’s perception of God that has changed?
MONJORONSON: That is
correct. The old documentation is
reinforced by referral to it, so that those who have a changed view of God
cannot go forward because the old documents support the old image of God. You must have new documents of God to allow a
new vision and relationship with God to exist, a new definition and image of
God. That is why revelation is ongoing
and continuing. It is necessary to
assist those growing souls to come into a much more intimate and personal and
accurate relationship with their Creator, that God presence within them, and
the First Source and Center. Without
continuing revelation, religions remain stuck in the old ideologies, the old
philosophies, the old God views that were initiated by the founders [of early
religion]. Surely, in three thousand
years, the Christian/Hebraic religion has changed, and it has changed
immensely, but the constraints of indoctrination by an organization that wants
to maintain its roots and traditions does not let that revelation come
forward. We are striving to initiate a
rational, reasonable, process of revelation into your world, one that creates a
new foundation for knowing God, by individuals who seek God.
That is why we have designed
the Spiritual Wings workshops to appeal to God believers, at least those who
want to expand their God view and their God relationship, into a personal and
intimate relationship, one that is functional, developmental, growing, and
revelatory. I cannot put this more
strongly to you that there are silent individuals who yearn and hunger for a
personal, loving relationship with God, who have had enough of the doctrinaire
organizational stance of knowing and interpreting God. There are those who are so insecure in their
belief in God that they must rely upon the revelations of belief that is
provided by their churches.
The role played by churches
Churches are simply an
instrument to teach people that there is a God, and to maintain those [sacred]
documents. They have forgotten that the
dictate of their founder, Jesus, is to know God personally. That means to search, to seek. There are no ends to which we advise you to
ask questions. If you do not ask
questions, you do not get answers. We
challenge you, we offer you the opportunity to ask God questions and surely
those answers will be forthcoming. If
you do not believe that you have the capacity, or you have the worthiness or
value to God, to [be able to] speak to God directly, God has provided his messengers,
his guardian angels, his midwayers, his Melchizedeks, to speak with you. He is always available to you, and when your
self-worth becomes higher, and your self-esteem becomes more developed, then
you realize that you are truly worthy of speaking to God, and then you will ask
God questions and God will answer you directly.
God’s relationship with the individual
MMc: What is God’s
relationship with the individual?
MONJORONSON: It is
personal.
MMc: Does God
actually consider all men and women equal?
MONJORONSON: Most
definitely! You are all worthy of
knowing God; you are all worthy of God knowing you; all worthy of having a
personal relationship with God.
Judgment
MMc: For
those who believe that God is judging them, would it be good for them to
understand that this comes from antiquity, that it is not necessarily what God
is?
MONJORONSON:
Definitely. God is not a judge
and jury.
MMc: Where it is
said that you “go to judgment,” what does that actually mean?
MONJORONSON: The realities
of that judgment situation are so broad, and so wide, as to be almost
incomprehensible to most of you. God’s
largess to have you participate in Its universe is so big and so generous as to
allow you to make that judgment yourself in the afterlife. When all knowledge, when all understanding is
revealed to you, “you” will come to judge yourself. You will come to understand your guilt, your
needs to grow or not.
Do you think you are less
worthy than Satan or Lucifer, who had been kept in confinement [for 200,000
years] until they finally decided that they were guilty and unworthy of
remaining in God’s universe, and they chose to abdicate, to become as
nothing? Do you think the patience for
them is less than the patience that God would give you in the afterlife? Certainly not. Just as they were given opportunities to
assess their own guilt and their own position, so too will you be given that
opportunity.
This is a “learning” universe
This is a learning universe;
you learn by examining that which does not work. The behaviors you have in this lifetime are
learning situations, which you get to review in the afterlife. You will see through the guidance of your
guardians, where you went wrong, and you will be given opportunities to see
what were the right options that you did not take. Your mind will become completely visible and
open to everyone—there are no secrets in the afterlife. That is why there are honest relationships in
the afterlife; that is why Lucifer and Satan and their like used sophisticated
sophistries to get people to their side.
They knew they would be revealed, and they had to hide their
intentions.
You will learn from your
mistakes. There is no need for God to
dispatch you to oblivion quickly, as there is no benefit to you or to God, or
to God the Supreme, or the universe in doing so. That there are trillions of sentient beings,
who are inhabited by the presence of God, does not mean that your worth is only
one-trillionth of everyone else’s, but that you are as valuable as all of
them. So, you will be given opportunity
to weigh and sort your own mistakes. You
will be given knowledge and training and education in how to weigh that
correctly, and how to learn from those mistakes. This is not a universe where there are those
hidden “gotchas” to catch you off guard or unawares, and then sentence you to
oblivion; it is simply not the case. God
is universally, eternally good, and all God’s actions and God’s universe is
good and has been set up to perpetuate good[ness]; only good[ness] and love are
self-sustaining, and sustaining into the eternity of time. You are given all opportunities to become
re-educated, to become trained and capable to be a part of that sustaining love
into eternity.
What is the afterlife like?
MMc: What is the
afterlife like?
MONJORONSON: Again, there
is no comparison of this life that you live now to the afterlife. I assure you that it is peaceful, and that it
is supportive and caring.
MMc: Is it the
heaven of eternal bliss that we are looking forward to, or something different?
MONJORONSON: It is eternal
bliss if you see it in that perspective.
However, bliss is not without its challenges.
MMc: On awakening
in heaven, will we then be in the presence of God?
MONJORONSON: First of all,
you will not awaken in heaven, and second of all, you—even in your morontial
state—you would not be sufficiently elevated in vibrational energy to withstand
the presence of God in front of you. You
would be vaporized, and you would become non-existent. You must grow into the capacity through your ascendant
career to be able to eventually, enter into the embrace of God in Paradise , when your energy is attuned to God’s energy.
MMc: There is a
feeling that God has set up hell, eternal damnation, some sort of eternal
punishment. Is this correct?
MONJORONSON: That is
incorrect.
Is there a hell?
MMc: There is no
hell?
MONJORONSON: There is no
hell; that is correct. There is
non-existence. For anyone who exists,
knowing that God exists and has created the universe and is all loving and
beneficent and generous, non-existence is hell.
Regarding sacred books
MMc: Some feel
these books that I spoke of are the inspired word of God, while others feel
they are at best a myth. How should we
regard these sacred books?
MONJORONSON: They have
inspired originations, but they have become manipulated by the ecclesiastical
hierarchy for political reasons and they are highly corrupt now. They are of historic reference to what was
accurate at the time, but due to the progress and development of human minds
and education, and the engagement of higher-minded thinking, they have become
antiquarian and are in tremendous need of updating through new revelations.
The story of Adam and Eve
MMc: Is the story
that is told in Genesis of Adam and Eve the true story?
MONJORONSON: Your language
is quite obtuse today. The truth
according to whom? at what time? and from what position? Truth, according to the universe, would
indicate that that “truth” is a myth, but that is a truth to those who believe
in it. Please assist me to help you with
these topics.
MMc: Thank
you. I’ve phrased the questions as
someone who believes that the story told in Genesis is a true story. I might ask you that question.
MONJORONSON: I will answer
it this way then: It is true that it is
a “story.”
MMc: Cain came to
the land of Nod , taking a wife and building a city
indicates that there were other humans in addition to Adam and Eve’s small
family. Adam and Eve were not the first
humans?
MONJORONSON: Is that a
question? (MMc: Yes.)
No, they were not the first humans.
Whenever you read literature, dear friends, read literature with a mind
to internal consistency. Apply a
discerning quality, this discerning ability, to most documents and you can
validate a document as being a good story or not a good story. Even mysteries must be consistent, where all
the evidence presented has a connection to an outcome. Lines of logic and lines of evidence that are
forgotten by the storyteller become disconcerting to the reader. Within the book of Genesis, there is
tremendous lack of consistency—it is inconsistent. Would God write a document that was
inconsistent? If God is whole and unique
and complete and integral—meaning having wholeness—God would not produce
something which is erroneous and misleading.
Those are only the most
obvious questions that one would ask of any piece of literature, so you must
ask the same questions of this literature.
Ask those questions of the author.
Of course, when you read this carefully, you see that there were already
people besides Adam and Eve in the world.
Therefore, this is a metaphor; this is a story; this is a fable which is
a teaching instrument. The main emphasis
of the books of the Old Testament are as “teaching instruments;” they are a documentary,
and they are filled with inconsistency after inconsistency. They hold back the revelation of God’s
goodness to those who read them and believe them and accept them as true, and
in this case, the word “true” is deemed to be consistent, whole and accurate,
and of course the text of that book is neither, it has none of those qualities.
MMc: Were Adam
and Eve actual individuals? And if so,
who were they or who are they?
MONJORONSON: Again, your
question can lead me to 50 different answers.
Yes, there was an individual named Adam, and yes, there was an
individual named Eve. Now, ask again,
please.
MMc: I’m wondering
why these two people were important enough for the writers of the Bible to come
up with their names and to tell a story about them. If there were an Adam and Eve in history,
what would their story really be?
MONJORONSON: Sir, I said
to you only moments ago that this was a “story,” that it is not an accurate
account of history, and as a story maker, an author or writer could have called
them “Jane and Joe” just as accurately, and meant the same thing. Adam and Eve had no significance other than
they were a beginning of that story and they were partners. Those were the words; if you look at the
etiology of the word “Adam” and the word “Eve,” you’ll find revelations
concerning why the authors, the writers of that fabled story in Hebrew, used
those names; they were called other names by the Sumerians. There has been a Genesis story with Adam and
Eve, the beginning pair, in most cultures, whether they are 5,000 years old or
500 years old. Most indigenous tribes
and cultures have a beginning story and have a beginning people, as a way of
understanding their global view, how this all began.
There have always been
incredibly intelligent individuals in all cultures for hundreds of thousands of
years who have asked those questions.
“Why are we here?” “What was the
beginning?” “Was there a
beginning?” Certainly, “Everything
begins with something, and so there must be a beginning to us.” Whether their names are Adam and Eve is only
relevant to that particular culture.
What is important is the relationship to God, the Creator. Adam and Eve found soon that not doing God’s
Will led them into difficulty. So, the
teaching method is that this pair had difficulty and for those who are reading
the story, the way to avoid difficulty is to do God’s Will. Of course, doing God’s Will is an ongoing
process of personal revelation. Does
this help?
Did man come into being by fiat of God or evolution?
MMc: Thank
you. Some looking at the stories in
Genesis believe that God made each species anew, by fiat. I’ve always come to believe that species
developed through evolution. Would you
help us understand how life came to our planet and how that life became human?
MONJORONSON: “How” is not
relevant or germane at this time, but only as a point of revealing the question
of God’s action. Remember, most people
believe what they think. They come to
conclusions and they “think” that is correct.
They see that there were animals and therefore they must have been whole
and complete at the time. As we have
pointed out to you in social terms, the human being’s life is very brief; 80
years is very brief in the duration of a culture. Human beings with a lifespan of 80 years
would have to live a thousand generations before they saw the evolutionary
process of creation. The creation of
species by fiat is erroneous because it assumes that the individual who came to
that conclusion had the correct conclusion.
The better question for individuals is to say, ”Oh, I see. I conclude that perhaps there is a creation,
an instantaneous process of bringing species into existence by fiat,
instantaneously whole and complete.” And
then, the discerning thought is: “I
wonder if my conclusion is correct or not, or accurate, and are there other
alternatives to this conclusion? And if
so, what would they be?” So then they
would begin to generate other probable causes or processes of generation for a
species.
God’s way is ancient; it is
eternal; it is consistent; it is whole.
It does not mean that God does not use evolution as a process to bring
about perfection. Look at your own life: If God wanted perfect beings, he would have
created them and not have such nasty problems as exist on your planet, but he
did not. God brought you personally into
existence as an evolutionary individual.
Your spirituality grows. As you
seek to grow and become like God, you “do” evolve, and so this is how you begin
and how you grow. God created an
evolutionary developmental universe in order to gain experience. Though God is perfect, God is short of one
thing and that is experience. Even
though God lives in eternity and knows all that has existed and will exist in
eternity, he enjoys the opportunity of learning through the experience of his
mortal children—you!
Therefore, when the universe
is complete in the final stages, all knowledge, all experience will have been
garnered, will have been gained, and God will become complete as a God of
Creation and Experience. Is this not a
wonderful thing? We are all excited by
it, as we learn the same way. We are a
part of God and God is a part of us, and we are growing together in our
experience of each other. I witness that
I have that experience, I enjoy it, I appreciate it, I am becoming more like
God, even though I am a citizen of Havona, a Paradise Son, an Havonal Son, I am
growing in experience. Wisdom that I
have gathered through other lifetimes on other planets, going through similar
situations as your Urantia, will assist me in developing plans for healing this
world with Christ Michael and Machiventa, just as other Avonal Sons will do on
the other planets of the rebellion.
There is a tremendous amount of experience to be learned here, to be
used, to be gathered.
The concept of sin
MMc: You spoke
earlier of Adam and Eve going against the Will of God. The term that has been used is that they
“sinned.” There is a concept of sin
that, as in breaking some tribal law, or sacred law, a taboo—sinned as it is
conceived by man—and error, sin and iniquity as seen by the Father. Can you differentiate the two, or is there a
differentiation between the two? The
concept of sin as man conceives it and the concept of sin as God conceives it?
MONJORONSON: Most
certainly. Sin is making decisions that
do not work, that are not in compliance or in agreement with the operation of
the universe, making decisions that work against the longevity of the universe,
against its sustainability. Iniquity, on
the other hand, is the awareness that your decisions do not contribute to the
longevity of the universe and you still make those decisions anyhow. Iniquitous sin is sin that is tremendously
much more difficult to forgive and to deal with. Sin can be making the wrong decisions, and we
differentiate those as “sins of ignorance” and “sins of awareness.” Sins of awareness are made at two levels, one
where you know that this may not be the right way, but you make it anyhow, and
the other differentiation in that category is iniquity, where you know from
experience that this is not the way and you still make decisions that do not
lead in the right direction.
According to humans/mortals,
it is quite different than as God sees it.
Many actions by individuals that have been called sins are only sins
according to their religions, not sins according to God. It is a discerning mind that seeks to
understand the differences and find ways to be in agreement with God, to find
the way that works in the universe. If
we were to adjudge your world as a society and as a civilization, then
certainly all of your civilization would be damned to hell, “if” it existed,
because you continue to make decisions as societies and as nations and as a
civilization that are not in agreement with the way of the universe. We are here to assist you to learn how to
live correctly.
The revelation of the three core values
That is why the three core
values of social sustainability have been revealed to you. This is the way of the universe: Quality of life, equality and growth. From applying these three values to your
behaviors and the designs of your societies and your civilization, this planet
will eventually enter into the era of light and life. It will be in full agreement with the
operation of the universe. Heretofore,
these values were a fact of ignorance; they were not available to people in the
wholeness of the three of them together.
Now, you become aware. It is
important for us to bring your societies, your communities and your families
into applying these three values to your operation so that your world becomes
much more productive in the wholeness of souls, the growth of souls of
individuals into wholeness. In the
operation of your societies is important to us that they operate in agreement
with the fundamental laws and flow and harmony of the universe. Understanding and applying these three values
is fundamental to that, both for individuals, for families, communities and the
whole civilization of your world.
MMc: One moment,
please.
Roxie: While we are
waiting for Michael, may I ask a question?
MONJORONSON: Most
certainly. Please do, dear.
When, in the afterlife, do we find out the
“real truth?”
Roxie: I realize
that Michael is asking these basic questions for a particular reason, but my
question is, “Will there be a time in the afterlife when we get a chance to
straighten out all the misinformation that we’ve learned on Urantia, not just
with the religious concepts that Michael is asking about, but with the
scientific concepts as well?” I find
that the scientific programs I watch are often full of erroneous information as
compared to “The Urantia Book.” Do we
get a chance to find out what the “real truth” is for all our questions?
MONJORONSON: Most definitely. The social misinformation will be corrected
within—in earth terms and durations—within weeks, within two or three months
after you cross over into the morontial realm, you will have a full
understanding and appreciation about these social errors and the social
incorrectness that occurred. You will be
taught almost exclusively by the positive influence of what the morontial life
is and how it is true. One of the reasons
why you will be so quickly informed about the correctness of social operation
on all realms is because of those who come into contact with you; you will have
virtually full access to all their knowledge.
Their minds will be open before you.
Of course, you will ask questions and they will answer them. You will have conversations, but there will
be less and less need of verbal exchanges of questions and answers as you go
along in the morontial realm. As you
progress, even in the first year of your progression there, you will soon move
out of dialog and to these non-verbal conversations, where you are in exchange
with another person, another being, and that you will be informed to the
complete depth of it. Without words, you
will “know” something is true, just as there are individuals who have what you
call, “knowings,” that they “know” something before there is any evidence of it
and they have full knowledge about that because they [simply] “know it.” You will have the same type of openness in
the morontial realm between minds, and so you will become quickly informed.
The scientific issues will
not be of concern to you in the beginning, as this will be held for you in your
later discussion groups where this is a topic for you to examine and develop
with others who are interested in this same kind of information and knowledge
in the universe.
Our first concern for you
when you enter the morontial realm is your social awareness, the awareness of
you, who you are, where you are—and not necessarily why you are there—but what
the plan is for you. What is your life
going to be like? You will be able to
exchange information with individuals on a free basis as you are capable and
competent of accepting and integrating into yourself. No one is overwhelmed by the infinite amount
of information and awareness that exists in the morontial and spiritual
realms. You will be [handled] gently,
carefully in your experiences so that you learn that you become durable and you
become sustainable as a soul, that you strengthen your skills in understanding
yourself and your journey and your relationship to others. Those aspects of arts and sciences and so on
are left to your assimilation into groups, which have similar interests as
areas of expertise that you can develop, all the while experiencing and
expressing the social, spiritual skills that you have learned along the way
already.
Roxie: Thank you
very much!
MMc: I have
several more questions along the same lines, but I think it might be better for
us to call a halt for today’s session and revisit those questions at another
time.
MONJORONSON: Let me guide
you in that, please. I have caught you
up short on some of your questions because the answers I provided to earlier
questions have already sufficed to answers those questions that came later, or
nullified the basis for asking those questions altogether. It is not that I am impatient or exasperated
at all. I, in fact, have deep compassion
for you and for those who ask these questions, when they have been given answers
already, which do not substantiate the secondary and tertiary questions. It is a foible of the human mind to continue
to refer back to the earlier basis of knowledge, which was validated by them
and accepted as true.
Becoming aware of your own thinking
These conversations and our
dialog today, what we wish to have you become aware [of] is a process for
examining your own thinking, that once you have a truth that is eternally or
infinitely true, that you use this as a basis for forming new information and
to examine your old thoughts and the questions that would develop out of that
antiquarian thinking. We are not harsh
and we are not impatient. Certainly we
are patient and we use this as a learning process for you to understand your
own thinking. If you are unable to hold
your thinking in question, then you are unable to learn and to form new truths
with which to live in the future.
Discussions about new topics
then become nonsensical and irrational.
Please begin to observe yourself—the observing self is fundamental to
growth; the observing self questions your own thinking and pulls it out for
validation and verification by those who are wiser or more experienced or have
gone through the same process before. As
you see, we are using this today, this very situation as a learning case for
your growth and examination. Just as a
former and respected philosopher, who is now in the afterlife, has stated in
your earthly realm, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” And so, what he truly meant was the
unexamined life is not living, and therefore to grow, you must examine your
life, ask questions, seek the truth or seek validation of that which is in
harmony with the universe. We are here
to help you in that process of validating that which is “true” and that which
is not. Thank you for your time. If you have further questions, either of you,
please allow yourself to do so, as we have time.
The concepts of original sin and atonement
MMc: I wonder if
you would talk to us a little bit about Paul’s concept of “original sin” and
“atonement.”
MONJORONSON: Most
definitely. These are topics which
former teachers, or teachers in former sessions have covered, but I would be
glad to examine them again for you.
There is no [such] thing that exists as “original sin;” it is a
misinterpretation. A better
interpretation would be that every son of every father, and every grandson of
every grandfather comes into existence—and we could say this as easily for
daughters and granddaughters as well for the other gender—is that your
mortality obligates you to make original decisions. That is the only thing that is transferred
from fathers to sons, from mothers to daughters, and so on, is that you must
learn the way on your own. You are
unique, you are an individual and therefore you have the capacity to make
decisions which are perhaps almost identical to those made by your fathers and
your mothers, grandfathers and grandmothers.
Whether that is two generations ago or two hundred generations ago, you
have the same capacity to make mistakes.
It was easy for Paul to call
this “original sin” because of that, but he was teaching lessons to those
individuals in his audience in terms that they could understand. Because each generation is not perfect, you
see your imperfection as a curse, where it is actually a blessing for your
self-improvement, providing that you are self-observing and able to question
your life and question your thinking. If
you do not learn from your mistakes in your thinking, then you are doomed to
repeat them over and over again, even in the same generation.
As for atonement, it was a
horrible mistake! It is a horrible
misconception of Christ’s life—Jesus’ life.
There is no “atonement;” that is irrational. The Christian faith has set itself up to
perpetuate irrational thinking concerning God’s creation. Again, the concept of atonement comes from
limited thinking that the originator of that term, “atonement,” did not think
through the intentions of God’s creation.
Had the originators of that word, atonement—which was done many, many
generations before Paul—thoroughly thought through God’s creation, they would
have realized that there is no need for atonement. And in fact, God created individuals as they
are, to learn from experience and that surely they will make mistakes, and
oftentimes repeat those mistakes, even though they know that they are making
mistakes, and that their decision is faulty.
Christ, Jesus, did not die
to make you perfect. Christ did not die
to wipe your sins away—only you can do that by living rightly, by acknowledging
your wrong decisions and correcting your faults, and making future decisions
correctly. Jesus was killed by evil men
who knew what they were doing politically; they did it for political
reasons. Unfortunately, religions have
developed and perpetuated that as a means to empower themselves. Atonement continues to tell people that they
are sinful, and that they will continue to make sinful decisions, and that they
are worthless. All of those conclusions
are erroneous. God loves each one of
you; God has sent you an example in the life of Jesus, to live your life as he
lived it, and that does not include dying on a cross.
The kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God
Jesus’ life was manifold in
its purposes and intentions: One is to
complete the progress of development of Christ Michael, the Creator Son of
Nebadon, to become a Sovereign Creator of his own local universe. The second part was to provide an example for
living to a world that was in darkness, where the perpetuation of wrong living
and wrong decision-making had been made for many millennia, and that a new
revelation needed to be made. The
correction that Christ Michael as Jesus brought to you was that God is not
outside of you, but that God is within you.
The kingdom of God is not outside of you as a political entity, but
is inside of you as a revelation for your development, for your ascension to
arrive in heaven, the kingdom
of God . The kingdom of heaven does not exist within
you, but the kingdom
of God does. If you align your citizenship with God, then
there is no need for atonement. Simply
correcting the way you live is atonement sufficient for your own life, without
the need or requirement for the God of Love to kill his own Son.
The nature of God
I spoke a moment ago that
this was irrational, and here is the irrationality of that logic: That God, the First Source and Center,
created the universe, is an infinitely eternal fact. Further, God is perfect; God is whole; God is
complete. God has no need of the
universe except as it becomes an expression of Its goodness; a way of
experiencing Its goodness. God created
mortals as you are, perfect little organisms for making mistakes and learning
to then correct those mistakes by making right decisions. Irrationality comes in where God, through
Jesus, who created the world, would come down to ‘atone’ for mistakes God knew
in advance you would make.
There is a missing element
in the hierarchy of understanding of the Godhood of the Creator. First of all, God IS. In the Godhead, there is God the Father, God
the [Eternal] Son and God the Infinite Spirit—this is the Triune God—God the
Son, God the Infinite Spirit and God the Father. God the Son, [the Eternal Son], did not
depart from heaven to become Jesus.
Jesus said this correctly when he said, “I am a Son of God, as you are
sons of God.” God—the Triune God—created
many beings [that are able to] create.
The Creator Sons of God
There are many hundreds of
thousands of Creator Sons, who can create local stars and nebula on their own
right, according to designs that are approved by the Godhead. Further, the Creator Sons are not God the
[Eternal] Son; they are not God the Father, or God the Infinite Spirit. They are separate creative individuals who
can create under their own right, just as you can create; you are creative
individuals in your own right according to the capabilities of your mind and
being. The confusion in the Christian
Church and many churches is between God the [Eternal] Son, and God the Creator
Son—Christ Michael, who became Jesus.
They are not one and the same.
God the Son of the Triune God in eternity and Paradise
is different and is separate from the Creator Sons.
The Eternal Son did not become Jesus
The church has confused God
the Son as being Jesus, which is not the case.
When this piece of logic is put into place correctly, then the whole
scheme of atonement begins to unravel.
Until then, this is irrational and does not make good sense and leads
people into estrangement from God the Creator, the Triune God in Paradise and the presence of God, the fragment of God
that also exists within you. For some of
you, this is very confusing and that it is easier to go back to the logic of
the church and live that way.
Getting
answers to all your questions
Now you have been exposed to
the truth, as it is eternal truth, in its relationship to you. You can ask questions of your God-self within
you, your “higher self,” your “higher mind,” the God presence within you, the
God within you—however you title this fragment of God that lies within you, it
has answers to all the questions that you ever will ask; it has answers to
every question that you will ask in your lifetime, if you are patient enough to
be still and ask the questions, then learn.
MMc: Thank
you. I don’t have any additional
questions for today.
MONJORONSON: I thank you
for your time today. You will always
have another day to ask questions, whether it is in this lifetime or your next
lifetime. Asking questions is the
beginning of wisdom and understanding, and we thank you for this time of asking
questions. Good day.
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Glossary
for words used in this transcript:
Monjoronson: One of the
Avonal Sons of God, created in perfection by the Eternal Son and Infinite
Spirit, but does not have creator prerogatives.
Monjoronson is currently serving on our world as a Magisterial Son by
special request of Christ Michael.
Transmitter/Receiver: The mortal
beings who have been trained to receive and transmit information and lessons
from the celestial beings, such as this lesson by Monjoronson.
The First Source and
Center: Another name for God that encompasses his
attributes for designing, creating and controlling the vast universe. It/He is referred to as God the Father
when dealing with universe beings in a personal way.
Spiritual Wings
Workshops: Three workshops created and led by Daniel
Raphael to introduce many of the concepts here explained, plus learning to have
an intimate relationship with God, and learning to co-create sustainable social
institutions with celestial help.
Guardian Angels: They really
do exist! They watch over mortals and
guide them into having experiences that help them grow spiritually.
Midwayers: Beings native
to this planet, called Urantia. They are
semi-physical beings, invisible to mortals, but are of great assistance to the
orders of angels.
Melchizedeks: The
order of spiritual beings that excel as teachers. Many of them are serving on our planet to
give lessons, such as this one, to mortals.
They are also the teachers in the afterlife, on the mansion worlds,
where mortals go after death.
Lucifer and Satan: They were
once System Administrators who went into rebellion against God and Christ
Michael. Their sophistries also caused a
great number of angels and midwayers to fall from grace. Their crimes have since been adjudicated in
celestial courts, and they chose annihilation, rather than repentance. They exist no longer.
God the Supreme: A title God
the Father is working toward by experiencing the lives of all his children. Although he knows all, he is unable to leave
the Isle of Paradise without the whole universe falling apart, so he gains
direct experience to everything possible through mortals and the God presence
within each one.
Urantia and The Urantia
Book: Our planet, as it is known throughout the
rest of the universe, is called “Urantia.”
The Urantia Book is a 2097 page book written by celestial personalities
to teach us information that we lack about the universe and how it is
administered, the history of our world, and the Life and Teachings of Jesus, as
recorded in detail by celestial beings during his entire life on Urantia.
Machiventa Melchizedek: An
outstanding Melchizedek who once walked this planet as the “Sage of Salem,”
before Jesus came. He has since been
given the title of Planetary Manager, and works closely with Jesus and
Monjoronson for planetary corrections.
Christ Michael/Jesus: Known as
Joshua Ben Joseph, or Jesus, when he came to our world about 2000 years ago, in
the universe he is known as Christ Michael.
He is of the order of Michael Sons, created in perfection by God the
Father and the Eternal Son. The Michael
Sons have creative prerogatives and each are given a huge area of space in
which to create their own local universe and all the beings that inhabit
it. Christ Michael created our local
universe known as Nebadon. He serves as
our Sovereign, Creator Father and Brother, and knows and loves each one of us
personally.
Morontial life and
morontial realm: The worlds in space where mortals go after
death to begin their ascension career.
Here you begin your universe education, to correct your deficiencies and
continue the growth of your spiritual life that was started during your mortal
lifetime.
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For additional
information, see:
“The Urantia Book,”
published by the URANTIA Foundation, 533
Diversey Parkway , Chicago , IL 60614 ,
1955. ISBN 55-10554
“The Urantia Book” has been published in 15
different languages by the URANTIA Foundation.
Their web site is: www.urantia.org.
“The Urantia Book” has also
been published by Uversa Press, a subsidiary of The Urantia Book Fellowship, 99 Park Avenue .
#434A, New York , NY 10016 ,
2003. ISBN 0-9651972-2-0 (hardcover) and
0-9651972-3-9 (softcover). These
editions contain a very useful index.
Their web site is: www.urantiabook.org
www.tmarchives.com , an archive of
thousands of transcripts from the Teaching Mission and Magisterial Mission,
with other useful information, plus the complete text of “The Urantia Book.”
www.monjoronson.com , a web site
discussion forum, to share information about Monjoronson, read his transcripts
and listen to audio files.
www.daynal.org , The Daynal Institute,
exploring cosmic reality. Contains
archived transcripts.
www.melchizedekschools.com is provided for the Spiritual Wings Workshops
that are facilitated by Daniel Raphael.
Descriptions of workshop curricula are provided, plus numerous
references. Individuals who would
consider becoming a co-sponsor for a workshop in their area are invited to
contact Daniel for further information."