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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.

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