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superhuman status. Supposedly the questions were such that "no human being could answer." Most likely they were concerned with cosmology, science, history, etc.--subject matter designed to expose fraudulence. However, amalgamated into what now constitutes Parts 1-3, is material of such extraordinarily high quality that it could not be other than revelation originating from very high sources. Perhaps it arose at a later time from questions by a more mature Forum.
According to Dr Sadler's record, Part 4, "The Life and Teachings of Jesus," was given quite separately from Parts 1-3, and about one year later. And according to Dr Sadler, it was a complete surprise. At a point in time when all four parts were in existence, a misunderstanding or some other unplanned event (such as loss of the sleeping subject, etc.) may have occurred. Perhaps the Contact Group had failed to understand that Part 4 was the planned revelation and it alone was ever directly designed to be published. And, having presented Part 4, the revelators considered their mission had been completed--so they simply departed.
The Contact Group and the Forum would then have been on their own and with no clear concept of what was expected from them.
An alternative scenario is the Contact Group was fully aware they were expected to publish Part 4 only--but because the Forum members had little or no familiarity with it, the Contact Group doubted that they could muster enough enthusiasm to organize and finance a Part 4 only publication. Either way, they procrastinated.
Completing these scenarios, somewhere further along in time, one or more members of the Contact Group started channeling. Later, on the false assumption that they were still in contact with the revelators, they eventually published Parts 1-4 as The Urantia Book.
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