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Then we have the quite remarkable potential of the Spirit of Truth to help us. Despite living in daily contact with Jesus for about four years, the apostles made more spiritual progress in their first four weeks contact with the Spirit of Truth than in the whole of that four year period with Jesus. (2061) Can the Spirit of Truth do the same for us? Perhaps excluding John, I don't think that the apostles and early disciples were conscious of their indwelling by their Thought Adjusters. Rather, they were intensely conscious of Jesus, and that was because the Spirit of Truth made them, and will make us, conscious of his presence. And since at that level, all spirit is one, consciousness of Jesus is consciousness of our Thought Adjuster.
The book tells us, "The world needs to see Jesus living again on earth in the experience of spirit-born mortals who effectively reveal the Master to all men." (2084) How can that happen unless we perceive Jesus-within-us, through the mediation of the Spirit of Truth and our Thought Adjuster, as the focal point of both our material and spiritual lives?
Finding ways and means of teaching or demonstrating, that the essence of our religion is Jesus-within-us, and through him, God-within-us, seems to me to be the most important contribution Urantia Book readers could make for the advancement of Christianity. We have been instructed not to try to take something out of the hearts of those who seek salvation, but rather to put something into these hungry souls. That means we forget about attempting to rid them of their doctrinal errors. For putting something into these hungry souls, I can think of nothing more important for Christianity than the knowledge that true religion is entirely experiential, a personal one-on-one relationship between the individual and Jesus-within--a view that will eventually herald the end of the out-there God concept and restore him to the throne of our souls.
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