07-20-2011, 05:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-20-2011, 05:20 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(07-19-2011, 11:54 AM)Bring4th_Aaron Wrote: These two mysteries might just be connected... :p According to the Urantia book, apparently God might just look like a pine cone! hahahaha
Pine cones have been used in archaeological contexts throughout history, and may also represent the pineal gland. One of the most well-known is on display at the Vatican.
This is tangential, but this was the first Urantia Book reference I came across on here. How do you feel about the statements offered there that there is no truth to the doctrine of transmigration of souls (reincarnation) or astrology?
Urantia Book Wrote:94:2.3 The undue concentration on self led certainly to a fear of the nonevolutionary perpetuation of self in an endless round of successive incarnations as man, beast, or weeds. And of all the contaminating beliefs which could have become fastened upon what may have been an emerging monotheism, none was so stultifying as this belief in transmigration — the doctrine of the reincarnation of souls — which came from the Dravidian Deccan. This belief in the weary and monotonous round of repeated transmigrations robbed struggling mortals of their long-cherished hope of finding that deliverance and spiritual advancement in death which had been a part of the earlier Vedic faith.
Urantia Book Wrote:121:5.5 3. astrology. This pseudo science of Babylon developed into a religion throughout the Greco-Roman Empire. Even in the twentieth century man has not been fully delivered from this superstitious belief.
150:3.3 1. The courses of the stars in the heavens have nothing whatever to do with the events of human life on earth. Astronomy is a proper pursuit of science, but astrology is a mass of superstitious error which has no place in the gospel of the kingdom.