"In the minds of the mortals of Urantia--that being the name of your world--there exists great confusion respecting the meaning of such terms as God, divinity, and deity."

(A "Divine Counselor," from The Urantia Book, 0:0.1)

"But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed."

(The apostle Paul, from the Holy Bible, Galatians 1:8)

The Urantia Book is a literary hoax, a spiritual fraud, and a false gospel!

Although The UB purports to be a revelation authored by altruistic, supermortal celestial beings hailing from distant planets and alternate time dimensions (14:1.4-6), it is instead a literary hoax perpetuated by one or more humans amidst the bustling hubris of early-to-mid-twentieth-century Chicago, USA.  Though its stated purpose is to "expand cosmic consciousness and enhance spiritual perception" (0:0.2), The UB's apparent intent is to mimic celestial endorsement of a supposedly "new" and "improved" religious construct which is decidedly rooted in archaic ideas that are clearly aberrant and/or heretical from a historical Christian perspective.  The primary target for which the UB  "authors" claim is in need of "improvement" in the arena of religious thought is none other than the Bible, with all its "misconceptions" regarding the nature of God, who Jesus was, the need for and means of salvation, etc.  As with Christianity, Jesus is of central importance to The UB.  More than one third of the page count in the book is devoted to a retelling of the life of Jesus by way of a complete overhaul of the four New Testament Gospels.  However, the "Jesus" you will meet in The UB is not the same Jesus who, according to the Bible, willingly died on the cross to save you and me from our sins.  Ironic though it may seem, The UB interacts with the Bible a great deal and devotes much attention to reinventing the meaning of many concepts and facts presented in Scripture, to the detriment of the very source it so heavily relies on as its primary source of inspiration!

It is the intent of this website to provide sufficient evidence in support of the position as stated above, submitted for the reader's consideration.  It will be left to the reader to decide whether the evidence presented herein is sufficient to draw the conclusions that The UB lacks any supernatural credibility; that its contents can be explained purely on the basis of human authorship; that its scientific claims were either common knowledge at the time of writing and are now outdated, or were just plain wrong to begin with; that its historic content is more fiction than fact; that it lacks any authentic spiritual content; and that it contains numerous plagiarisms from once-popular human sources, which in and of itself detracts from its claim to celestial authorship.

--Dale E. Essary--

A BIBLICAL EVALUATION OF THE URANTIA BOOK

Introduction

Part I: Let's Get Started

Part II: The Presumption of Revelation

Part III: What Does The UB Say about God?

Part IV: What Does The UB Say about Jesus?

Part V: What Does The UB Say about Man and Sin?

Part VI: What Does The UB Say about Man and Salvation?

Part VII: What Does The UB Say about the Divinity of Man?

Part VIII: What Does The UB Say about Life after Death?

Part IX: What Does The UB Say about Marriage?

Part X: Other Concepts and Concluding Remarks

DISSENTING VOICES

(A Compilation of Internal Contradictions and Inconsistencies within The UB)

What is This?

Questions or Comments?

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