Exploring The Religion Of The Urantia Book - The Religion of Personal Experience

This week's guest is a long time student of The Urantia Book, Kurt Cira. Kurt has made a personal project of something he calls the ROPE. ROPE stands for Religion Of Personal Experience. The ROPE is something that Jesus gave two brilliant discourses on. Both are in Paper 155: Fleeing Through Northern Galilee, they are The Discourse on True Religion and The Second Discourse on Religion. These two amazing discourses essentially spell out the religion OF The Urantia Book. The authors of the book tell us that Christianity made a mistake by adopting the religion ABOUT Jesus, rather than the religion OF Jesus. The tell us, "Indeed, the social readjustments, the economic transformations, the moral rejuvenations, and the religious revisions of Christian civilization would be drastic and revolutionary if the living religion of Jesus should suddenly supplant the theologic religion about Jesus." This leaves us asking, what is the religion of The Urantia Book? Are Urantians in danger of making a religion about the Firth Epochal Revelation, in the same way Christians evolved a religion about Jesus? We think the answer is certainly yes. We know that all of our planetary helpers, our unseen friends and allies, have been trying to teach us a religion, a universal religion, from the moment civilization began to evolve on this world. The Urantia Book is likewise offering us a religion. What is that religion?  Is it not the Religion of Personal Spiritual Experience as Jesus taught in his wonderful discourses on religion? Is it not the ROPE as Kurt points out? We think it is. Come and join us this week as we grab on to the ROPE and hopefully climb to new heights and insights about what it means to find God, IN yourself, OF yourself and FOR yourself, just as Jesus taught.