Special Edition on Revelation Revealed topic 7 (personal religion)

JESUS EMPHASIZES PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH THE WILL OF GOD AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD.  In Jesus’ discourses on religion (sections 5 and 6 of Paper 155), he called for each individual believer to acquire direct personal experience by attuning to the will of God and the presence of God. Participants will seek to explain and interpret these realities, while grappling with the fact that Jesus appears to have been addressing many different audiences, not just persons living on Urantia in his own day or now. Further, there seems to be good reason to wonder how much of these discourses on religion stemmed from the divine mind of Michael of Nebadon, although blended with knowledge and awareness residing in the human mind of Jesus of Nazareth. The Midwayer Commission states:  "It appears to us that from his baptism until the crucifixion it was entirely optional with Jesus whether to depend only on the human mind or to utilize the knowledge of both the human and the divine minds.  …  We are utterly at a loss to differentiate between his practice of self-limiting his divine consciousness and his technique of concealing his preknowledge and thought discernment from his human associates" [the Midwayer Commission, 1787:3,5 / 161:3.1,3].