Might be too deep for you but, oh well, what the heck

[Jim Spencer]

Jim--These are quotes from The Urantia Book, talking about Pentecost. They will disagree with almost everything you now believe---but they will unsettle your mind---and, if you don't immediately reject it out of fear---you might, just might, (but I have little hope) start to see the light of truth beginning to take root in your heart. I know you are afraid---but once you realize that Jesus Christ (also known as Michael) is everything he said he was---He walked the talk--he never wavered and he never failed. When he asked Rev. Moon to finish his mission---he didn't mean that he failed. He meant that he wanted Rev. Moon to work towards establishing his true gospel, which was kind of screwed up by Peter, James, and Paul. Rev. Moon erroneously assumed that He was the Second Coming of Christ. Problem is, it is not an easy thing to live up to the standards of The Son of Man and The Son of God---the Creator Son that is the Father of our universe, along with his consort, The Holy Spirit. However, God, being a God of infinite love,mercy, and grace---loves and appreciates all of the work and accomplishments that Father has achieved. So, no matter what happens to him, you, or I, it is what is in our hearts that will determine our eternal futures. If you take out the fear and the guilt---you will see that God put us in a wide open universe. He told us to go forth, even as prodigal sons. Even if we do evil---it's better than if we do nothing at all:

Check these out:

"Both the mother and brother of Jesus were present among the one hundred and twenty believers, and as members of this common group of disciples, they also received the outpoured spirit. They received no more of the good gift than did their fellows. No special gift was bestowed upon the members of Jesus’ earthly family. Pentecost marked the end of special priesthoods and all belief in sacred families."

 

"The coming of the Spirit of Truth purifies the human heart and leads the recipient to formulate a life purpose single to the will of God and the welfare of men. The material spirit of selfishness has been swallowed up in this new spiritual bestowal of selflessness. Pentecost, then and now, signifies that the Jesus of history has become the divine Son of living experience. The joy of this outpoured spirit, when it is consciously experienced in human life, is a tonic for health, a stimulus for mind, and an unfailing energy for the soul."

 

"Then comes the resurrection, with its deliverance from despair and the return of their faith in the Master’s divinity. Again and again they see him and talk with him, and he takes them out on Olivet, where he bids them farewell and tells them he is going back to the Father. He has told them to tarry in Jerusalem until they are endowed with power — until the Spirit of Truth shall come. And on the day of Pentecost this new teacher comes, and they go out at once to preach their gospel with new power. They are the bold and courageous followers of a living Lord, not a dead and defeated leader. The Master lives in the hearts of these evangelists; God is not a doctrine in their minds; he has become a living presence in their souls".

 "Some day a reformation in the Christian church may strike deep enough to get back to the unadulterated religious teachings of Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. You may preach a religion about Jesus, but, perforce, you must live the religion of Jesus. In the enthusiasm of Pentecost, Peter unintentionally inaugurated a new religion, the religion of the risen and glorified Christ. The Apostle Paul later on transformed this new gospel into Christianity, a religion embodying his own theologic views and portraying his own personal experience with the Jesus of the Damascus road. The gospel of the kingdom is founded on the personal religious experience of the Jesus of Galilee; Christianity is founded almost exclusively on the personal religious experience of the Apostle Paul. Almost the whole of the New Testament is devoted, not to the portrayal of the significant and inspiring religious life of Jesus, but to a discussion of Paul’s religious experience and to a portrayal of his personal religious convictions. The only notable exceptions to this statement, aside from certain parts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are the Book of Hebrews and the Epistle of James. Even Peter, in his writing, only once reverted to the personal religious life of his Master. The New Testament is a superb Christian document, but it is only meagerly Jesusonian."