Hands

In the Urantia Book

Evolutionary advantage

• The increased use of their hands by primates did much to develop inherent brain power, but they did not yet possess minds that could really be called human. 62:4.4

Ancestral customs

• These guardians of health of Prince’s staff sought to introduce handshaking in substitution for saliva exchange or blood drinking as a seal of personal friendship and as a token of group loyalty. 66:5.22

The Jewish ceremonial of washing hands

• in the time of Jesus it was considered that eating with unwashed hands was a transgression of the law. They had come to regard eating with unwashed hands as commerce with a harlot. 153:3.3-7
• Muchos fariseos, especialmente los que estaban a favor de las enseñanzas de Jesús, sabían que sólo se lavaba las manos con fines higiénicos, y que detestaba estas prácticas puramente ceremoniales. 166:1.2 167:1.3 179:3.1

Jesus healings

• Jesus healed a man with withered hand as a protest against enslaving religious practices, such as the Jewish Sabbath 148:7

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.

• Ceremonial hand washing 153:3.3 — Mt 15:1-9; Mk 7:1-13.
• Honor parents 153:3.3 — Ex 20:12; Dt 5:16.
• Honor with lips, not heart 153:3.3 — Is 29:13.
• Jesus not wash hands 166:1.2 — Lk 11:38.
• Pharisees watched 167:1.3 — Lk 14:1b.
• Jesus prepares to wash feet 179:3.1 — Jn 13:4-5a.