Fish

Only fourteen phyla have appeared on Urantia, the fishes being the last, and no new classes have developed since birds and mammals. 65:2.11

the greatest event of all was the sudden appearance of the fish family. 59:4 59:5.8 65:2.5-6

110,000,000 years ago marked changes occurred in the fish family, a sturgeon type first appearing, but the ferocious sea serpents, descended from the land reptiles, still infested all the seas, and they threatened the destruction of the entire fish family. 60:2.9

the Neanderthalers made holes in the ice covering the northern rivers and thus were able to spear the fish which came up to these vents 64:4.4

In the Urantia Book

Early units of barter were fishes or goats (69:4.5)

In Jesus’ ministry

• the famous fish catch in which a certain Simon, not Peter, became a follower of Jesus, was not actually a miraculous catch 145:1
• feeding 5000 with 2 152:2.7-9
• Said Jesus: If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may chance to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? 144:2.4
• risen Jesus directed apostles from the shore to cast the net (192:1.3,7-8)
• It is not strange that you have a record of Peter’s catching a fish with a shekel in its mouth. The reality is that Jesus paid the tribute without resorting to any artifice. 157:1.4

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.

• Five loaves and two fishes 152:2.7 — Mt 14:17; Mk 6:38; Lk 9:13; Jn 6:8-10.
• Appropriate gifts to son 144:2.4 — Mt 7:9-11; Lk 11:11-13.

See also

• marine life