Camels

In the Urantia Book

Appearance

• Camels and llamas had their origin in North America 61:2.9
• North America was soon overrun by ruminants—deer, oxen, camels, bison, and several species of rhinoceroses. Enormous herds of horses joined the camels on the western plains of North America (61:3.5,10)
• North American camels went to China (61:4.3,4)
• llamas and giraffelike camels mingled with the horses on the grazing plains 61:4.4
• During these early epochs of the ice age North America was overrun with mastodons, woolly mammoths, horses, camels, and others61:5.7

Domestication

• camels were domesticated by 5000 B.C. 81:2.12

Jesus sayings

• “Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees. You are truly blind guides and dumb teachers; you strain out the gnat and swallow the camel. 156:2.8 175:1.17
• “You have a saying that it is ‘easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the heathen to inherit eternal life.’ And I declare that it is as easy for this camel to go through the needle’s eye as for these self-satisfied rich ones to enter the kingdom of heaven”. 163:3.1

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.

• Strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel 156:2.8 — Mt 23:24.
• Sixth woe 175:1.17 — Mt 23:23-24; Lk 11:42.
• Camel go through needle's eye 163:3.1 — Mt 19:23-24; Mk 10:23-25; Lk 18:24-25.

See also

• caravans