Accidents
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the belief in so-called accidents is substituted by a law wherein all effects are preceded by definite causes 86:2.5
accidents, as time passes, always work out for welfare and progress of the universes 10:7.5-6
In the Urantia Book
Believers are not immune to accidents (159:3.13)
- Blind and unforeseen accidents do not occur in the cosmos 48:7.9
- if psychic circles not attained due to unavoidable accident, a probation time is granted in mansion world 112:5.6
- Material accidents are not arbitrarily interfered with by celestial personalities 123:4.7
Primitive man did not believe in accidents (86:2.6)
- spirit-born individuals know that catastropghes are but redirecting cataclysms which wreck temporal creations preliminary to the rearing of more enduring realities 100:2.8
- to God-knowing believer, does not matter if all things earthly crash 100:2.7
Jesus teachings
- the death of Joseph, father of Jesus, is something that was permitted to occur 126:2.2
- his advice regarding accidental wealth was that we should not consider ourselves as owners but trusters in benefit of all the group (132:5.9,21)
- Jesus suffered an accident falling in the stairs in a sandstorm 123:4.5-8
- his teaching about angels was that they are not involved in avoid accidents 166:4
- Jesus taught that catastrophes of nature, accidents of time, and other calamitous happenings are not visitations of divine judgments or mysterious dispensations of Providence 149:2.10
How to end them
- they are part of finite drama; vicissitude of evolution 4:1.11 65:5
- Scientific knowledge, leading to scientific action, is the only antidote for so-called accidental ills 86:7.4
Bible parallels
Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.
- To a God-knowing believer 100:2.7 — Mt 6:25-34; Mt 10:28; Lk 12:4; Heb 13:6.
- Disasters not judgments 149:2.10 — Lk 13:1-5.
- Error of slavish worship 149:2.10 — Mt 23:1-39.
- Sons of living God 149:2.10 — 1 Ch 22:10; Ps 2:7; Is 56:5; Mt 5:9,16,45; Lk 20:36; Jn 1:12-13; Jn 11:52; Jn 20:17b; Acts 17:28-29; Ro 8:14-17,19,21; Ro 9:26; 2 Co 6:18; Ga 3:26; Ga 4:5-7; Eph 1:5; Phil 2:15; Heb 12:5-8; 1 Jn 3:1-2,10; 1 Jn 5:2; Rev 21:7; 2 Sam 7:14.
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