Theories

The highest religious doctrines are dead and powerless unless transformed through divine spirit and power, as declared by your teacher of old. 34:6.6

In the Urantia Book

Experience always has advantage over theory. (102:6.7)

• Facts always support spiritual faith, while theories may challenge it. 195:7.1
• You cannot confide in a postulate, just as you cannot pray to a chemical formula or worship a hypothesis. 102:7.3
• Imprisoning divine truth in human formulations leads to post-mortem salvage of dead theories, while living truth thrives in spirit-discerned realities. 180:5.2

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.

• Not in word only, in power 34:6.6 — Zec 4:6; 1 Th 1:5.

See also

• concepts
• doctrines
• ideas

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