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Dealing With Problematic Details
There are a great number of other areas that could be examined for reasonableness and logic, but hopefully the examples given are adequate to suggest that the major ideas in The Urantia Book are both reasonable and logical if we accept the existence of a loving, personal God. And because the major concepts in the book are logical and reasonable, many open-minded people will find much of the book believable. Of course we need to be honest with those to whom we introduce the book. There are things in The Urantia Book that appeared to be correct at the time the papers were printed but have since been discovered to be outdated or erroneous, particularly in the area of science.
When we introduce people to The Urantia Book, we need to avoid setting up unrealistic expectations. If we lead folks to expect a revelation that is perfect in all respects, we may set them up to reject the book and set ourselves up for disappointment. But we can certainly promote the major concepts in the book as reasonable and logical. Problems with some details of the book do not invalidate its great spiritual insights or its potential to uplift the spiritual status of our lives and that of our world. And after all, neither our eternal destiny nor our faith relationship with our spirit Father hinge upon total belief in a book or having absolute truth.
Religion is not the product of reason, but viewed from within, it is altogether reasonable. Religion is not derived from the logic of human philosophy, but as a mortal experience it is altogether logical. [101:1.4]
[All quotes are from The Urantia Book except as noted. The numbers in brackets represent [Paper:Section.Paragraph]
Reference
(1) Hamer, Dean, "The God Gene: How faith is Hardwired into Our Genes," ( Doubleday)
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