© 1984 Neal Waldrop
© 1984 The Urantia Book Fellowship (formerly Urantia Brotherhood)
The following was adapted from an address given at the Allenberry Conference of URANTIA Book readers, Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, in May, 1984.
In the late forties or early fifties of our present era, the Apostle Paul journeyed to Jerusalem, so as the confer with the Apostle Peter and with James, the younger brother of Jesus. Paul had been laboring among the Greek-speaking inhabitants of Syria and Asia Minor, but in Jerusalem there had arisen an angry hue and cry: “If those pagans would follow Jesus, let them first conform to the Law of Moses!” Waxing heated and eloquent, Paul ended the debate triumphant.
Just as the truths of Jesus’ life could not be confined to the Hebrew people, so it is that the truths of The URANTIA Book — a restatement and expansion of Jesus’ real teachings — cannot long remain encumbered by Judeo-Christian traditions!
— Neal A. Waldrop III
Silver Spring, Maryland
“The teachings of Jesus, even though greatly modified, survived the mystery cults of their birthtime, the ignorance and superstition of the dark ages, and are even now slowly triumphing over the materialism, mechanism, and secularism of the twentieth century. And such times of great testing and threatened defeat are always times of great revelation.” (UB 195:9.3)