Jesus in Rome: True Values

The Urantia Book

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1. True Values

 It was with Angamon, the leader of the Stoics, that Jesus spent a whole night chatting during the first days of their stay in Rome. This man subsequently became a great friend of Paul and proved to be one of the main supporters of the Christian church in Rome. In essence, and that in modern language, Jesus taught Angamon:

The standard of true values ​​must be sought in the spiritual world and on divine levels of eternal reality. An ascending mortal must recognize that all lower standards and materials are ephemeral, partial and inferior. The scientist, as such, is limited to the discovery of the connections between the material facts. Formally, you have no right to claim to be a materialist or idealist, because by doing so you are giving up the attitude of a true scientist since any and all such claims are the very essence of philosophy.

 If the moral discernment and spiritual attainment of mankind does not increase proportionately, the unlimited advancement of a purely materialistic culture may eventually get to be a threat to civilization. A purely materialistic science harbors within itself the potential seed of the destruction of all scientific aspiration, because this very attitude presages the ultimate collapse of a civilization which has abandoned its sense of moral values ​​and has repudiated its spiritual goal of attainment.

The materialistic scientist and the extreme idealist are destined to a constant dispute. This does not apply to those among scientists and idealists who have a shared common standard of high moral values ​​and high levels of spiritual test. In every age scientists and religionists must recognize that they are on trial before the court of human need. must reject any war between them while fighting valiantly they have to justify their survival through greater devotion to the service of human progress. If the so-called science or religion of a particular time is false, you must purify their activities or disappear before the emergence of material science or spiritual religion truer and more worthy order.