Disease

The Father works to improve our earthly state. If we could all be healed of our diseases, we would indeed marvel, but it is even greater to be cleansed of all spiritual disease and be healed of all moral infirmities. 147:3.3

painful illnesses and world-wide scourges, as time passes, always work out for the welfare and progress of the universes 10:7.5-6

pain is an inevitability in a world that seeks attain the satisfaction of hapiness 3:5.14

In the Urantia Book

In antiquity

• At one time physicians believed in bloodletting as a cure for many diseases, but they have since discovered better remedies for most of these disorders. 70:2.10
• The entire life of ancient men was prophylactic; their religion was in no small measure a technique for disease prevention. And regardless of the error in their theories, they were wholehearted in putting them into effect; they had unbounded faith in their methods of treatment, and that, in itself, is a powerful remedy. 90:4.1-2
• The earliest hypothesis of disease and death was that spirits caused disease by enticing the soul out of the body. Regardless the belief is erroneous, they did effectively isolate afflicted individuals and prevent the spread of contagious disease. 90:3.4
• primitive man believed disease:
• * were cured by porous rocks 85:1.4
• * can be diagnosed by animal entrails 90:4.3
• * were produced by magic and the enemies 86:3.3 90:3.7
• * were a punishment for sin, both personal or racial 90:3.8
• * were produced by ghosts 90:2.1 90:3
• * can be treated by chanting, howling, laying on hands, and breathing on patient 90:4.4-5

Biological aspects

• cooking, boiling and roasting, are a means of avoiding sickness 66:5.18
• there are certain healing chemicals, that when our scientists know them better, they will become more efficient in the treatment of injuries, and indirectly they will know more about controlling certain serious diseases 65:4.5
• The human body cells are akin to the living disease-producing microscopic and ultramicroscopic organisms of the realm. 76:4.7
• The majority of disease-causing bacteria and their auxiliary virus bodies really belong to this group of renegade parasitic fungi. 65:2.3 65:5.2

Face the disease

• faith exhibits inexplicable poise notwithstanding baffling diseases and even acute physical suffering 101:3.8
• for healing sickness we must use both material treatment and spiritual practices of prayer and faith encouragement 148:2.1
• The faith that get well under the foolish ministrations of ancient shamans was, after all, not materially different from current nonscientific treatment of disease. 90:4.2

Jesus

• at Bethsaida hospital organized by believers in Jesus sick were segregated by sickness types 148:0.1
• Jesus asisted a woman which disease was only spirit of infirmity 167:3.1-2
• in bestowal Son era disease has been practically mastered 52:5.9

Problems in Urantia

• The body cells of the Material Sons and their progeny are far more resistant to disease than are those of the evolutionary beings indigenous to the planet. 76:4.7
• The great handicap confronting Urantia in the matter of attaining the high planetary destiny of light and life is embraced in the problems of disease, degeneracy, war, multicolored races, and multilingualism. 55:3.21
• there are physical, mental and emotional illnesses; and until the time of Jesus there were demonic possessions 141:4.4-7 147:3.3 153:4.1 163:6.2 166:4.10
• Mankind has been very slow to learn the material secrets of the interrelationship of cause and effect. Slowly and certainly the unfolding of a scientific era is destroying man’s age-old theories of sickness and death. 90:3.9
• diseases mentioned in The Urantia Book:
• * coma | coma
• * dropsy | dropsy
• * epilepsia | epileptics
• * leprosy | lepers
• * malaria | malaria

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.

• My Father works and I work 147:3.3 — Jn 5:17. *Hearers and believers have eternal life*: Jn 5:24-28; Jn 6:40.
• Arrows of the Almighty 90:3.8 — Job 6:4; Ps 38:1-2.
• Healing on Sabbath 167:3.1 — Lk 13:10-13.
• Sending the twelve to ministry 141:4.4 — Mt 10:1,8; Lk 9:2; Lk 10:9.
• Healing the demoniac 153:4.1 — Mt 9:32-33a; Mt 12:22; Lk 11:14.
• Overcoming devils 163:6.2 — Lk 10:17b-18,20.

Where it appears

Disease is linked in 66 paragraphs of the text; the first 40 are listed.

See also

• healing
• health
• injury
• medicine
• sick

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