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A.J. does not refer to the Urantia Book. I suspect he has looked
at it - he is very well read. In this commentary, I will attempt
to address the credibility of there being a reincarnated Jesus to
someone who follows the Urantia Book.
While the Urantia Book is certainly
different in content and style, in my opinion it is a substantial
corroboration for all that James Padgett chanelled. (But many others
cannot see this to be so.) So its not a totally left field source,
in my opinion.
Firstly, according to the Urantia Book, Jesus is a Creator Son,
who existed a very long time (billions of years running his sub-universe)
before he spent a meagre 36 years here. It also goes into a lot
of detail on why he came here, and what he did here, and the rules
he was to obey in being here. But let's start with reincarnation.
The Urantia Book says this does not occur for us humans. So, point
blank, A.J. Miller could not have "reincarnated" here,
unless he decides he is not human, but an "avatar". Curiously
however it offers insights into how Jesus did come here originally,
and also how at least one other "avatar" came here. Because
you will quickly say, if Jesus came here once, surely he could come
here again? But to answer that, you need to understand that he came
here to experience life ONCE as a human, in this realm. He had on
another occasion already experienced life in the realm we go to
after death, what Padgett called the Spirit Spheres. So he had absolutely
no need to return here, and because we have details about how Machieventa
Melchizedek came here to teach Abraham, it is very clear that if
he needed to send someone, he could. Bear in mind that according
to the Urantia Book, Jesus (aka Michael of Nebadon) is a rather
busy guy. He runs a sub-universe that ultimately will hold a million
inhabited planets. He had a very good reason to come here the first
time, and in particular to be born of a woman, but the notion that
he personally needs to come here to tell us that the heavens will
close, is incredibly far fetched. And if he really did need to,
we can see that he could materialise as an adult male, and just
tell us. In fact in my opinion he has been here a number of times
in the flesh, but that is not told in the Urantia Book. It was witnessed
by a number of American scientists in India, about 100 years ago,
and recorded in a series of books by T Baird Spalding. (Life and
Teachings of the Masters of the Far East) Bear in mind that A.J.
will tell you that he only "woke up" to being Jesus about
ten years ago, in his late thirties. And he acknowledges that he
is not "at-one" with God, which stage Jesus reached with
his baptism by John the Baptist, at age 31. All in all, the "return"
by A.J. would rank as a total disaster, in the eyes of any objective
observer, never mind one who follows the Urantia Book.
What then of Mary Magdalene, his soul mate? Well soul mates is
not a topic discussed anywhere in the Urantia Book. But since Jesus
is not a human like you or I, he could not have a soul mate such
as Mary Magdalene since she is a human. The Urantia Book does explain
that Jesus has a "consort," an incredibly gifted and powerful
being called Nebadonia, who in her own right is a creator of many
beings and aspects of this sub-universe of Nebadon. So a follower
of the Urantia Book might well consider that if A.J. is Michael
of Nebadon, he is "two timing." Added to which the Urantia
Book explains that a part of rules by which Jesus was to come here,
was that he leave no seed. A.J. already has children, by a previous
marriage. A.J. however tells that he was married to Mary Magdalene
2000 years ago, and while I may be wrong on this, I seem to recall
there was supposed to be one or more children.
A.J. also tells that he reached the 22nd Celestial Sphere, where
he learnt how to reincarnate, as an explanation as to why the Jesus
talking to James Padgett about 90 years ago, said that it was not
possible to reincarnate. Well even in Padgett we hear that spheres
beyond the seventh, are not numbered, and in the Urantia Book that
is certainly true. That book has a lot of details about the places
that exist, and their names, yet A.J. does not use any of those
names for where he has been?
In short, there is absolutely no way a follower of the Urantia
Book would accept any part of A.J.'s story.
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