Brotherhood (attitude)
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Also: fraternity.
The appearance of genuine brotherhood signifies that a social order has arrived in which all men delight in bearing one another’s burdens; they actually desire to practice the golden rule. 71:4.16
brotherhood is one of the most powerful and most tenuous factor of civilization 118:8.10
In the Urantia Book
How to achieve it
- Only through, and by appeal to, the Adjuster can mankind ever attain unity and brotherhood. 149:3.3
- approaching other religions with the recognition of the truths which are held in common 149:2.5
- Economic interdependence and social fraternity will ultimately conduce to brotherhood. 99:7.5
- Religious revelation is essential to the realization of brotherhood on Urantia. 52:6.2
- such a quality of brotherly affection is invariably manifested itself in unselfish and loving social service 142:7.4
- Micah taught about a day in which everybody would live according to his understanding of God 97:5.5
- Brotherhood will be achieved through:
- # Social fraternity. Multiplication of international and interracial social contacts. Development of a common language and the multiplication of multilinguists. 52:6.3
- # Intellectual cross-fertilization. Brotherhood is impossible on a world whose inhabitants are so primitive that they fail to recognize the folly of unmitigated selfishness. 52:6.4
- # Ethical awakening. Only ethical consciousness can unmask the immorality of human intolerance and the sinfulness of fratricidal strife. 52:6.5
- # Political wisdom. Selfish political sagacity is ultimately suicidal 52:6.6
- # Spiritual insight, the recognition of the fatherhood of God 52:6.7 155:6.8
Barriers to brotherhood
- On an evolutionary world, antagonisms are natural; peace is secured only by some sort of social regulative system. 16:9.7 70:0.2
- doctrinal fetish betrays man and leads into intolerance and bigotry 88:2.7
- Rather did the early races learn by sad experience that “in union there is strength”; and it is this lack of natural brotherly attraction that now stands in the way of the brotherhood of man on Urantia. 68:1.1
- future prophets should not strengthen interrligious barriers but augment the religious brotherhood 92:5.16
- Seldom do races of different colors and varied natures take kindly to the plan of human brotherhood. 39:5.4
- Religious peace—brotherhood—can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. (134:4.3-4,8)
- There cannot be peace between light and darkness, between life and death, between truth and error. 175:1.2
- always happens an inevitable clash between religions of spirit and religious of authority 173:3.3
- Always we may have diversity of intellectual comprehension and interpretation, even varying degrees of socialization, but lack of spiritual brotherhood is both inexcusable and reprehensible. 170:5.20
- unless religious, brotherhood is an abstraction devoid of love 16:9.8
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.
- “Family” analogy 142:7.4 — 1 Jn 3:1-2a.
- Rulers who judge for reward 97:5.5 — Mic 3:11.
- Every man sit under own vine 97:5.5 — Mic 4:4-5.
- Sacred book fetish 88:2.7 — Is 11:12; Rev 7:1.
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