Only fourteen phyla have appeared on Urantia, the fishes being the last, and no new classes have developed since birds and mammals. [1] The greatest event of all was the sudden appearance of the fish family. [2]
110,000,000 years ago marked changes occurred in the fish family, a sturgeon type first appearing, but the ferocious sea serpents, descended from the land reptiles, still infested all the seas, and they threatened the destruction of the entire fish family. [3] The Neanderthalers made holes in the ice covering the northern rivers and thus were able to spear the fish which came up to these vents. [4] Early units of barter were fishes or goats. [5]
The famous fish catch in which a certain Simon, not Peter, became a follower of Jesus, was not actually a miraculous catch. [6] Feeding 5000 with 2. [7]
Said Jesus: If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may chance to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? [8] Risen Jesus directed apostles from the shore to cast the net. [9]
It is not strange that you have a record of Peter’s catching a fish with a shekel in its mouth. The reality is that Jesus paid the tribute without resorting to any artifice. [10]