HALF-BAKED

HALF-BAKED

By Dale Essary

A RESPONSE TO “THE ORIGIN OF PRESENT-DAY CHRISTIAN BELIEFS AS PRESENTED BY THE AUTHORS OF THE URANTIA BOOK”[1]

by Lee Cook

INTRODUCTION

A discourse has been submitted for our consideration that echoes the alleged chronology of the development of the Christian faith as it is regaled in The Urantia Book (The UB). I find Ms. Lee Cook’s recent posting on the subject of Judaeo-Christian history a golden opportunity to provide a candid response to the position held by the alleged “celestial” authors of The UB regarding said subject, one that is too good to pass up. It is with humble sincerity that I must inform Ms. Cook that her efforts, valiant though they may seem, are sorely lacking in credibility and grossly misaligned with modern scholarly enlightenment, in much the same way that the authors of The UB find themselves today. I do hope that Ms. Cook will come to realize that it is not her personally that my consternation is directed toward, but to the authors of The UB themselves, be they celestial or otherwise.

In the interest of retaining the full context of Ms. Cook’s work, this series will recite her entire treatise iteratively and in the order presented, and will otherwise defer to the text of The UB itself as it is referred to (or in some cases quoted verbatim) by Ms. Cook.

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