Asceticism

We should not be passive mystics or colorless ascetics 178:1.14

In the Urantia Book

Ancient asceticism

• faraway ascetics teach reverence 191:5.3
• As civilization advanced, the crude concepts of sacrifice were elevated to the level of the rituals of self-abnegation, asceticism, fasting, deprivation, and the later Christian doctrine of sanctification through sorrow, suffering, and the mortification of the flesh. 89:4.1

Asceticism in Buddhism

• Gautama detracted from the practice of seeking individual salvation through physical affliction and personal pain. 94:7.2

Asceticism in Jesus and the church

• When Jesus went into retirement it was not for the purpose of fasting and for the affliction of his soul. He was not an ascetic, and he came forever to destroy all such notions regarding the approach to God.136:3.3
• church became ascetic in dark ages 195:4.1

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.

• Great Commission 178:1.14 — Mt 24:14; Mt 28:19-20a; Mk 13:10; Mk 16:15; Lk 24:47; Jn 17:18; Acts 1:8b.
• Peace be upon you 191:5.3 — Jn 20:21a.
• So send I you 191:5.3 — Jn 17:18; Jn 20:21b.
• When Spirit comes 191:5.3 — Acts 2:1-4.
• Baptized with Spirit of Truth 191:5.3 — Acts 1:5.
• Tarry here 191:5.3 — Lk 24:49.