Science, philosophy, and religion
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The Urantia type of human personality is endowed with the ability to recognize the uniformity of physical causation, the obligation of moral conduct, and the fellowship worship of Deity, reflecting a cosmic citizenship and Deity kinship. 16:8.15-19 16:9.1
Science, philosophy, and religion are compared and contrasted in their approaches to understanding reality and existence, with each discipline offering valuable insights that contribute to a more complete perspective on the universe and our place within it. 1:5.11 1:6.2 4:4.7 5:5.3 101:2.2-8 101:5.2-9 101:8.3-4 102:1.2-4 102:3.5-15 102:6.8 103:6-9 112:2.11-12 132:3.2-4 133:5.4 195:6
The constitutive responses of science, philosophy, and religion survive the crash of civilizations, sustaining the essence of human self-consciousness. 16:9.4-5
The reality response saves us from false a priori assumptions in science, philosophy, and religion, guiding us through the realms of physical senses, morals, and spiritual experience. 16:6.4-10
In the Urantia Book
Relationship among, also referred to as
- The cosmic mind recognizes response on three levels of universe reality: causation, duty, and worship. 16:6.5-9
- Mind establishes relationships between energy and spirit, reflecting a cosmic kinship in eternity. 9:4.5
- In the universal reality, science represents fact, philosophy embodies idea, and religion embodies relation. 196:3.2
- The personal creature discerns the fact, law, and love of God through innate recognition-realization of energy reality, mind reality, and spirit reality. 16:9.1
- The pursuit of knowledge leads to fact consciousness, the search for wisdom leads to co-ordinate consciousness, the love for God leads to value consciousness, and the hunger for truth leads to the consciousness of true reality. 102:3
- In cosmic reality, energy is the thing, mind is the meaning, and spirit is the value that give objective validity to man's experience in and with things, meanings, and values. 9:4.5 16:6.10 196:3.2
- truth, beauty, and goodness are the universal values of science, philosophy, and religion, respectively. 2:7.11
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.
- Self known as it knows 16:9.4 — 1 Co 13:12.
- God's spirit lives in us (T/A) 16:9.4 — Job 32:8,18; Is 63:10-11; Ezk 37:14; Mt 10:20; Lk 17:21; Jn 17:21-23; Ro 8:9-11; 1 Co 3:16-17; 1 Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16; Ga 2:20; 1 Jn 3:24; 1 Jn 4:12-15; Rev 21:3.