Ignorance
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Confusion and doubt may delay spiritual progress, but only conscious resistance to the Adjuster's leading can prevent survival. 110:3.5
Be patient with ignorant men, but also valiant in defense of righteousness and aggressive in preaching the gospel. 178:1.14
Ignorance breeds suspicion, hindering the possibility of brotherhood through intellectual cross-fertilization. 52:6.4
Ignorance is the chief inhibitor of growth, endangering those too busy to spiritually evolve and adapt meanings across various cultures and stages of civilization. 100:1.2
Knowing the divine law brings wisdom and liberation, while ignorance of it leads to misery and disaster. 131:8.6
Ignorance and selfishness ensure the downfall of the highest type of government. 71:3.1
In the Urantia Book
Ignorance provides opportunity for faith. (3:5.9)
- Ignorance is sometimes essential to success, as uncertainty enhances man's taste for the sweetness of the unknown future. 13:1.6 39:5.9 138:7.1
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.
- Great Commission 178:1.14 — Mt 24:14; Mt 28:19-20a; Mk 13:10; Mk 16:15; Lk 24:47; Jn 17:18; Acts 1:8b.
Where it appears
Ignorance is linked in 4 paragraphs of the text.