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What then was their purpose in giving us a 2000 page book if not to provide a true and reliable description of the universe in which we live? One answer is that any true and reliable account would have quickly be turned into an object of irrational reverence, obsessive devotion, even worship. This problem certainly arose with Adam and Eve, and with Melchizedek, who were all elevated to the status of Gods or demi-Gods by mortals of their time. The same problem occurred with Jesus who came to lead us into a knowledge of the Father, but we mortals quickly submerged his teachings by substituting the worship of Jesus himself. The Bible too has suffered the fate of becoming an object of worship.
In seeking to avoid this same fate, the authors have gone to great lengths to mix remarkable prophecy with obvious error, or sometimes subtle error. But they knew that, at least initially, they would have only limited success. Eventually the included error would dominate the responses of the new readers--and the real message, the facts about our personal relationship with the Father, and the spiritual nature of our real goals, would have to be selected out from the window dressing and presented in its pure form.
The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. (P. 43)
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