The Garden of Eden — 73
1. Do you think there will someday be another Garden of Eden?
2.In what section of the world might such a garden be located?
3. Do you think we will ever find the original garden?
4. When do you think the children of Adam and Eve might be brought back to our world?
5. If Machiventa Melchizedek returns as vicegerent Planetary Prince, where might the new world headquarters be located?
6. What is the value of this knowledge of the Garden of Eden?
7. What do you think will be the next supermortal mission to our world?
Adam and Even — 74
1. Why were Adam and Eve re-created over eight feet in height?
2. How did Amadon communicate with his reception committee which contained a midwayer and two Life Carriers?
3. How does one explain that fandors could carry eight foot human beings?
4. How did Adam know the origin, nature, and behavior of thousands of animals?
5. Is the Sabbath-day tradition helpful in our observance of the Sabbath?
6. Why were Caligastia and Daligastia left on our planet to cause trouble?
7.Why do theologians call the Genesis story of the origin of man a myth?
1. How does one approach the seemingly unsolvable problems Adam and Eve faced?
2. How do we guard against being tricked into evil?
3. How does one face tragedy?
4. What can we learn from the default of Adam and Eve?
5. Why do Christians believe in the fall of man?
6. How does one judge whether an action is a short-cut or an evolutionary readiness for progressive change?
7. How will the Urantia Papers change our view of history?
The Second Garden — 76
1. Why do we have virtually no record of the first Garden of Eden?
2. Why do you think the Biblical account of Cain has both Adam and Eve as his parents?
3. How does science today evaluate heredity and environment?
4. Why were the first generation Adamites vegetarians?
5. What do you think of the ethics of Adam’s impregnating 1682 women?
6. Which is preferable, Adam and Eve’s status as a material son and daughter or their status as ascendant citizens of Jerusem?
7. When do you think Adam and Eve will be allowed to resume their ascension to Paradise?
1. If the archangel author of this paper cannot explain the origin of the primary midwayers, how does one regard this mystery?
2. What values can be learned from the futile tower of Babel?
3. Was the appearance of the secondary midwayers a natural phenomena or was there supernatural involvement?
4. What might have been the nonsexual liaison of these unique children of Adamson and Ratta that produced secondary midwayers?
5. Why did so many of the midwayers join the Lucifer rebellion?
6. How did the secondary midwayers help in the materialization of the Urantia Papers?
7. What are the midwayers doing now on our world?
The Violet Race After the Days of Adam — 78
1. How did the millions of violate race people coming out of the second garden approach the numbers that would have come out of the first garden?
2. If Adam and Eve had not defaulted, would they have cultivated the Andite people?
3. Why didn’t a group of the violet people cultivate a permanent pure blood group of Adamites?
4. What damage to history was caused by the Hebrew priests decision to report that all the world’s people died in Noah’s flood?
5. Is there evidence that we received much of current day civilization from the descendants of the second garden?
6. What do we know about the Sumerians from history?
7. What can we learn from the development of the leaders of the human race?
1. What can we learn from the mixing of the secondary Sangik people with the Andites in India?
2. How should we improve racial stock using scientific knowledge with high ethical principles?
3. Was the major emphasis of the caste system biological or social, economic?
4. Is there evidence that the northern Chinese are superior to the southern Chinese?
5. Why didn’t the superior quality of the yellow race inspire supermortal revelation?
6. What caused the Chinese to give greater emphasis to the preservation of the known rather than the pursuit of the unknown?
7. What can we learn from the strong Chinese family?
Andite Expansion in the Occident —80
1. Was proximity of immigration to the Mediterranean region by the Adamites and the sexual attraction of the blue race the main reasons that the third and fourth epochal revelations appeared in this region?
2. How did the great vigor of the blue race help the Adamites spread their superior religion?
3. How have various animals helped human development?
4. What do you think of the initiation rites of the shaman priests in destroying the inferior blue people?
5. Do the descendants of Adamson and Ratta explain why the Greeks gained the reputation of physical and intellectual superiority?
6. Does knowledge of the history of the mother cult help us understand its value?
7. Why is so much emphasis placed on the biological quality of the peoples of the world?
Development of Modern Civilization –
81
1. Is our modern use of leisure contributing to creativity?
2. How can our world solve the problem of overpopulation?
3. How can the Internet help us establish a universal language?
4. How can we improve our educational system?
5. How can our ethical standards catch up with our scientific development?
6. How can the values and goals of Christianity and Islam be brought into more harmonious relationships?
7. Will the teachings of the Urantia Papers establish a new and higher level of spirituality on our world?
• How is trade shaping our world today?
• Do we still suffer from superstition?
• Is modern society undergoing social and economic change too rapidly?
• What is the cause of the increasing violence in society?
• How do we find the 1% of people who have wise leadership ability?
The Evolution of Marriage – 82
1. Should we require the bride
and groom to take courses on family education before granting a marriage
license?
2. How do men and women differ in their motivation and outlook on life?
3. What is the best way to control the sexual drive in young people before marriage is practical or advisable?
4. Is the current practice of tolerating cohabiting a sign that our traditional marriage mores are weakening or changing?
5. Are there ethical ways to eliminate grossly inferior people from reproducing in our society??
6. When should society encourage interracial marriage?
7. How serious is the sexual double standard today?
•. Is the Mormon belief that all people must be married a hangover from the ancient belief that unmarried people could not enter eternal life?
• Why, until recently, was birth control considered immoral?
• Is the main objection to in-marriage cultural or biological?
The Marriage
Institution – 83
1. Should premarital training be required by the
State before granting marriage licenses?
2. Why have husband and wife relationships been
compared with divine relationships?
3. What is the most frequent cause of separation and
divorce today?
4. Should there be different regulations regarding
people who cannot find partners to marry?
5. Is the breakdown in home training primarily responsible for the high crime rate today?
6. Are the pre-marriage legal property agreements conducive to a happy marriage?
7. What determines personality compatibility in marriage?
Marriage and Family Life – 84
1. Is home schooling more effective than public schooling?
2. What is the best way to lessen the antagonistic cooperation between men and women?
3. Do women still outgeneral men in the home?
4. What are the greatest obstacles to establishing equality of men and women?
5. How well do men and women understand each other? What are the mental dissimilarities of mean and women?
6. What is the difference between men’s rights and women’s rights?
7. Is the pleasure motive undermining the stability of the home?
The Origin of Worship — 85
1. What are some of the current day illusions that may be included in our religion?
2. Is the symbolism of animals such as lambs, doves, snakes, or eagles a healthy practice?
3. Is the origin of the term “Sunday” the respect of early man’s reverence of the sun?
4. Is the practice of “sainting” people a constructive practice in Christianity?
5. Among contemporary human beings which tends to be dominant, the adjutant of worship or the adjutant of wisdom?
6. Why has superstition lasted so long in religion?
7. Is the use of “diving rods” to find water a superstition?
• Is the general respect for mountains a carry over from the time when people believed they were inhabited by spirits?
• Why have people associated various aspects of nature with worship?
• How are thunder, lightning, fire, and light associated with the divine today?
The Early Evolution of Religion — 86
1. Do we still entertain the notion when we experience good fortune that something bad will happen to counterbalance the good?
2. Why do people continue to spend money on a lottery when they know the odds are overwhelming against their winning anything?
3. Why do human beings fall victim to excessive anxiety?
4. Are most people shaped more by value decisions or chance happenings?
5. Why are pain and suffering essential to progressive evolution?
6. What do Christians think about the nature of the soul?
7. How do Christians think of their resurrected appearance?
• To what extend do people today view life in terms of scientific cause and effect?
• Do Christians still believe that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom?
The Ghost Cults – 87
1. Why have human beings
tended to view spirit forces as dangerous rather than helpful?
2. Why do we still use practices of ancient defenses against evil, such as burning candles or using holy water, even though we no longer believe in their efficacy?
3. Why do people still think they can bargain with God?
4. Why do we use “solemn style” in prayer rather than common language?
5. Why do some people thing that fasting or sex suppression is a way to get benefits from God?
6. What kind of religious organizations will carry the teachings of the Urantia Papers to the world?
7. What are the most important suggestions for a new cult given by this Brilliant Evening Star?
• What masterful mystery and worthful unattainable will new religious organizations have?
• Why were we given this paper on Ghost Cults?
Fetishes, Charms, and Magic — 88
1. What fetishes do contemporary people believe in?
2. Are pilgrimages to the tombs of great men a form of fetishism?
3. Has the Bible been used as a fetish?
4. Has the atonement doctrine become a fetish?
5. Have we made a fetish of democracy?
6. Do people still practice magic to get results?
7. Are the use of titles and degrees a form of magic?
• Why do we revere relics?
• Is taking an oath on the Bible a form of refined fetishism?