Insanity
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One third believed, one third rejected, one third thought Jesus beside himself, all were astonished by his words. 137:8.18
Through Jesus's intervention, Amos’s transformation and restoration from insanity was miraculously achieved in front of a amazed crowd. 151:6.5
Jesus distinguished between insanity and demon possession, a distinction lost on many in his time due to confusion. 77:7.6-7 141:4.8 148:2.3
The continental nation's justice system condemns the incurably insane to death by lethal gas, a shocking practice compared to the pleasing methods of dealing with crime and insanity on Urantia. (72:10.1,3)
Insanity is practically nonexistent in the advanced stages of a world settled in light and life. 55:5.2
The human self is not just a sum of conscious states, but relies on a consciousness sorter and associator for unity, or else there would be uncontrolled and random associations of mental madness. 133:7.9
In the Urantia Book
Insanity in the primitive man
- Lunatics, hunchbacked and crippled children were believed to be moon-struck and fetishes, as primitive man struggled to distinguish between genius and insanity. 88:1.9
- Primitive man could not distinguish insanity from genius, regarding lunatics as moon-struck and idiots as fetish personalities. 88:1.9
- Early man often worshiped lunatics, regarding them as superhuman beings indwelt by the gods. 85:6.2
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.
- Many believed Jesus was crazy 137:8.18 — Mk 3:21.
- Jesus “heals” lunatic 151:6.5 — Mt 8:32a; Mk 5:8; Lk 8:29a.
- Lunatic cured 151:6.5 — Mk 5:15; Lk 8:35.
- Brought sick people 77:7.6 — Mt 4:24.
- Jesus to pour out His spirit 141:4.8 — Ezk 11:19; Ezk 18:31; Ezk 36:26-27; Jl 2:28-29; Lk 24:49; Jn 7:39; Jn 14:16-18,23,26; Jn 15:4,26; Jn 16:7-8,13-14; Jn 17:21-23; Acts 1:5,8a; Acts 2:1-4,16-18; Acts 2:33; 2 Co 13:5; Ga 2:20; Ga 4:6; Eph 1:13; Eph 4:30; 1 Jn 4:12-15. *Kingdom comes in power and glory*: Mt 24:30-31; Mk 13:26; Lk 21:27; Acts 1:7-8.
Where it appears
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