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"The people of Urantia
(Earth) continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of
God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in
their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments
of displeasure in times of famine and flood -- these are the gods of primitive
religion..."
"God is never wrathful,
vengeful, or angry. It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love,
while justice conditions his rejected mercy. His love of righteousness
cannot help being exhibited as equal hatred for sin. The Father is not
an inconsistent personality; the divine unity is perfect."
"There was, throughout
all these regions, a lingering belief in reincarnation. The older Jewish
teachers, together with Plato, Philo, and many of the Essenes, tolerated
the theory that men may reap in one incarnation what they have sown in
a previous existence; thus in one life they were believed to be expiating
the sins committed in preceding lives. The Master found it difficult to
make men believe that their souls had not had previous existences."
"The barbarous idea
of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning
the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding
of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy
unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth."
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