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does a life, spent serving as we pass by, bring its own rewards?
One way of answering this question is to take at face value the statement in the book that, "the existence of God cannot be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction." (24) So what if we are wrong? What if there is no God and the promise of our Paradise career is mythical? How would that affect our decision to dare to be Godlike--which, for a Urantia Book reader, means to dare to be like Jesus? It takes time to ponder this question.
If, after doing so, we can answer that yes, we would still continue to attempt to be like Jesus and continue to live so as to serve him as we pass by, then surely we have discovered that such a life is truly its own reward. But if we cannot answer yes, maybe we have a problem to resolve. So thought some.
"And then last, but greatest of all, we attain the level of spirit insight and spiritual interpretation which impels us to recognize in this rule of life the divine command to treat all men as we conceive that God would treat them. This is the universal ideal of human relationships." (1651)
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