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Discussion Questions
for a study of
The Urantia Book
by Dr. Meredith J. Sprunger
Paper 147: The Interlude Visit to Jerusalem
1. Are the religious leaders today the greatest obstacles to larger religious truth?
2. Who are the people today who are regarded as inferior or sinful but are growing spiritually?
3. What are examples of old religious practices that we can abandon with the coming of the Fifth Epochal Revelation?
4. Do we have psychological or behavioral ways of self-affliction similar to the fasting and sackcloth and ashes behavior of Jesus' day?
5. What determines whether a member of another religion or no religion is admitted into the kingdom of God?
6. What determines the direction in which we are growing?
7. How should we regard theological orthodoxy?
8. What level of interpreting the golden rule do most people use today?
9. What are ways in which we are facing in the right direction but fail to achieve our goals?
10. Do we have religious regulations that are merely cultural practices that we can ignore?
11. Was the subversive motivation of John in getting Jesus to the pool of Bethesda ethical?
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