Revelations Books

The Urantia book was written decades after Mr. Padgett's death! I wish people would give an honest review based upon READING the book rather than the Amazon review. The revelations are life changing, and that I can attest to having read the messages and practiced the prayer. Don't miss out on this wonderful info guaranteed to change your life and answer many questions about biblical contradictions that may have been troubling to consider. One of my favorite books to date in Spirituality...

The book is good. The message is good. But in any case it's evident that the author took all the information from the URANTIA Book. That is his "Celestial" source ;-)

Some say you can never learn from books but that you have to experience truth on your own terms. This seems like a true statement and more the reason to be openminded in world where bad news is as common as falling leaves.

These books have opened new doors that I would have never dreamed of, give them full read you may be pleasantly surprised.

Jung

As truly wonderful and varied all the Celestial messages delivered by Jesus and his fellow Celestial brethren are in this presentation, the most often repeated and emphasized message given in a variety of different ways is the declared supreme importance of obtaining God's Divine Love through prayer. It is declared that cumulative obtention of this Love through repeated prayer is what transforms a human soul into a divine soul filled with the immortal Substance of God's Very Own Soul; and this is what true salvation is all about: at-onement of soul with our Creator that brings fulfillment and happiness beyond human conception.

But the angels explain that there is a great additional blessing inherent in this Love. They emphasize that the true seat of Truth, as with love, both God's and humankind's, is not located in the evanescent and fallible reasoning mind, but in the timeless and unfailing soul. And since the Source of all Truth is God Himself, in order for humankind to share in this, His Truths, if they are to be received at all, must be transmitted from His Soul to our souls. God's Truths are inherent in His Divine Essence, the Life of which is His Divine Love. Therefore, where humankind is concerned, Truth need not be a mere transitory and essentially lifeless and often changing concept of the mind, but, potentially, an eternal Living Force of the soul.

And how do we obtain these highest of God's Living spiritual Truths? We are instructed in but only one way: through repeated prayer for this Love. The more Divine Love that enters and permeates our souls, the greater becomes our understanding and possession of those spiritual Truths inherent in this Love. In this way, the understanding that may begin as a mental knowledge deepens through our souls' growing perceptions and culminates not in an evanescent but rather in an eternal ownership. And, thus, the highest Truths of God may become progressively known and possessed by each soul that seeks at-onement with our Heavenly Father through prayer for the Gift of His Divine Love.

It has been my supreme privilege to have contributed to the present format and edition of these magnificent revelations from the spirit world, authored principally by our brother, Jesus, but also in collaboration with other Celestial spirits who have also found the Way, the Truth and the Love of God. And I would urge all potential readers to enjoy and absorb this book's contents, for within I sincerely believe is the revealed true Way to each soul's possession of the highest fulfillment and greatest happiness attainable in both this world and the next.

I LOVE THIS BOOK ... because it conveys many interesting truths about the earth life of Jesus of Nazareth, it corrects mistakes of the present bible and also informs the reader of Jesus` actual mission - to let us know about our Heavenly Father`s never failing and always uplifting Love for his children, HIS DIVINE LOVE.

I LOVE THIS BOOK ... because it contains many interesting messages, received through automatic writing and signed by the highest of celestial angels including the apostles John and Paul and Luke as well as many others, above all, of course, messages signed by Jesus himself.

I LOVE THIS BOOK ... because, besides telling me alot about Jesus and God`s Love for us, it also includes messages dealing with the questions of how we - as simple human beings - can finally become angels, what`s the use of personal soulful prayer and how spiritual healing works.

I can only recommend this book.

After a first reading of the Revelation of Ares, I almost immediately felt convinced that one of my innermost intuitions was right even though I didn't know how to formulate it straight away. Actually, I have a clearer picture about mankind's destiny; I do believe no one is doomed to live in misfortune, pain or worse, indifference; anybody is able to change for the supreme Good ? well that's how I mean it. God who manifests himself in this message seems a whole lot different from what I was told during my Sunday school sessions, like for the relationship between man and God. Still the overall impression is this revelation appears more surprisingly condusive than what I would have thought at first. It is presented as a stride to spiritual freedom and I do believe it is.

This book is indispensable, yet it reports events almost too incredible to believe. Hence logical minds are tempted to dismiss Potay as a madman, but the Prophet is not mad. I accept his claims and message as the Revelation of Ares is timely. In the 1977 manuscript, for instance, it prophesied --prior to the US-backed Afghani war against the Soviets--that "Kabul would be hacked to pieces".

This most unusual book encourages its reading by those too skeptical to invest in yet another book making unverifiable claims. Yes, science probably will never explain their source, but its message assures us that this is not just any book. Likewise, the man who published it is not just any man. Its spiritual content seeks not our conversion but is presented as fact to be accepted or not. Its message is not to be taken at face value, but its verities are to be tested. It is a divine word not to be churched and ritualized; it is to be embodied and lived.

As uncategorizable as the book is, I initially regarded Potay as its only author, saw him as just another claimant imaginatively having a relationship with God that no one else has, but to critique this book, I had to give it an honest read. After careful scrutiny, I perceived God and Jesus as patiently waiting on us to get with the "claim our divinity here and now" program. There is no request for Jesus to be seen as God incarnate. Rather the book reminds us that we are all gods (not the Maker, but like the Maker). We are encouraged to love and revere God and see the living Jesus exemplifying our spiritual potential and his ongoing project as our path to that greater Light. Because Jesus is our brother, we will follow the path he trod and he does not require our worship.

The book is not exclusionary. By stating that none will be lost, it defies the religionist claim that a select few will know God and all others will be banished. It informs us that Eden was lost but can be restored in a few generations through our choosing to change the world by changing ourselves. We must resurrect our innate spiritual life. The achievability of this work can no longer to be questioned. Belief that supernatural events occurred is no pre-requisite. Even if the narrative is purely metaphorical, the message makes us responsible for achieving our own salvation by having faith and by becoming self-aware. It reminds us not to expect a savior. Nor are we to expect forgiveness but rather are asked to cease sinning (acting as if cut off from God).

The book outlines how Michel Potay became the world's most recent Prophet. Divine messages issued through him address people culturally grounded in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It states that our knowledge of who's wrong or right is probably wrong. It denies that certain people are chosen while others languor in despair. Offering no privileged status, it addresses nonbelievers with believers on an equal basis-each must be good and do good to build a soul.

Apparently, we need this program of spiritual remediation. The book is not meant to absolve us, but relieves us of any confusion about our kinship to God that we have suffered given our exposure to religious doctrines which it says have led us astray. It asserts the common spiritual legacy of the Abrahamic religions.

No one must leave their preferred religion to benefit from this book. Those who believe and belong already to any religion are asked only to take this book with them to their congregations in addition to their Bible, Torah or Qur'an. Those who belong to no spiritual or religious organization are not asked to join anything. The book states that even the non-believing humanist, turned off to religion and even to God, is apt to appreciate its content. The book invites all to read and be fed. Its eclecticism inspires me to embrace the incredible story told. It simply states that the world will change in an edenic direction as we become more willing to change. Eden restored does not entail a return to a premodern state, but does entail shedding any delusion that we have any source or authority other than God.

How seriously should we take the proposal that we abandon our cultural frameworks? Potay's charge is to elucidate the de-culturizing teaching he received, that is, how our dependency on culture results in our blind reliance on the white king (religion) and the related black king (politics) in ways that impede our faithful reliance on God. The message conveys a spirit of change, one urging us to discard culture and promote that change by moving towards Eden restored. We then see ourselves harnessed by kingly forces that inhibit our divinity; autonomy from our cultural dependency must be risked before Eden can be restored.

My skepticism was instilled when I was anthropologically schooled to believe in the inescapability of culture and value inter-cultural experiences, but our notion of culture recently has undergone a drastic transformation. Anthropology once held that cultures were isolated units to be known as distinct wholes. Observing other cultures promised to reveal what constitutes our own. We assumed that our own cultural issues could be rectified by our study of different cultural solutions to similar environmental constraints.

Then anthropologists underwent a paradigm shift. We ceased to profess the relativity of bounded cultures. We prefer the more current received idea that there are no bounded cultures. We now profess the unbounded and de-centered quality of all cultural practices. We know that collective cultural production is never an isolated process and that its forms are more amorphous than previously thought. We now recognize transnational cultural identities, practices and formations formerly unknown to the founding American anthropologists like Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber. Our conception of culture has been liberated.

This book extends our re-evaluation of what culture is and means. Presumably a universal Edenic culture positing equality, justice and love will cultivate a freedom to pursue spiritual growth by supplanting current cultures of fear, domination, and war.

This book is indispensable, yet it reports events almost too incredible to believe. Hence logical minds are tempted to dismiss Potay as a madman, but the Prophet is not mad. I accept his claims and message as the Revelation of Ares is timely. In the 1977 manuscript, for instance, it prophesied --prior to the US-backed Afghani war against the Soviets--that "Kabul would be hacked to pieces".

This most unusual book encourages its reading by those too skeptical to invest in yet another book making unverifiable claims. Yes, science probably will never explain their source, but its message assures us that this is not just any book. Likewise, the man who published it is not just any man. Its spiritual content seeks not our conversion but is presented as fact to be accepted or not. Its message is not to be taken at face value, but its verities are to be tested. It is a divine word not to be churched and ritualized; it is to be embodied and lived.

As uncategorizable as the book is, I initially regarded Potay as its only author, saw him as just another claimant imaginatively having a relationship with God that no one else has, but to critique this book, I had to give it an honest read. After careful scrutiny, I perceived God and Jesus as patiently waiting on us to get with the "claim our divinity here and now" program. There is no request for Jesus to be seen as God incarnate. Rather the book reminds us that we are all gods (not the Maker, but like the Maker). We are encouraged to love and revere God and see the living Jesus exemplifying our spiritual potential and his ongoing project as our path to that greater Light. Because Jesus is our brother, we will follow the path he trod and he does not require our worship.

The book is not exclusionary. By stating that none will be lost, it defies the religionist claim that a select few will know God and all others will be banished. It informs us that Eden was lost but can be restored in a few generations through our choosing to change the world by changing ourselves. We must resurrect our innate spiritual life. The achievability of this work can no longer to be questioned. Belief that supernatural events occurred is no pre-requisite. Even if the narrative is purely metaphorical, the message makes us responsible for achieving our own salvation by having faith and by becoming self-aware. It reminds us not to expect a savior. Nor are we to expect forgiveness but rather are asked to cease sinning (acting as if cut off from God).

The book outlines how Michel Potay became the world's most recent Prophet. Divine messages issued through him address people culturally grounded in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It states that our knowledge of who's wrong or right is probably wrong. It denies that certain people are chosen while others languor in despair. Offering no privileged status, it addresses nonbelievers with believers on an equal basis-each must be good and do good to build a soul.

Apparently, we need this program of spiritual remediation. The book is not meant to absolve us, but relieves us of any confusion about our kinship to God that we have suffered given our exposure to religious doctrines which it says have led us astray. It asserts the common spiritual legacy of the Abrahamic religions.

No one must leave their preferred religion to benefit from this book. Those who believe and belong already to any religion are asked only to take this book with them to their congregations in addition to their Bible, Torah or Qur'an. Those who belong to no spiritual or religious organization are not asked to join anything. The book states that even the non-believing humanist, turned off to religion and even to God, is apt to appreciate its content. The book invites all to read and be fed. Its eclecticism inspires me to embrace the incredible story told. It simply states that the world will change in an edenic direction as we become more willing to change. Eden restored does not entail a return to a premodern state, but does entail shedding any delusion that we have any source or authority other than God.

How seriously should we take the proposal that we abandon our cultural frameworks? Potay's charge is to elucidate the de-culturizing teaching he received, that is, how our dependency on culture results in our blind reliance on the white king (religion) and the related black king (politics) in ways that impede our faithful reliance on God. The message conveys a spirit of change, one urging us to discard culture and promote that change by moving towards Eden restored. We then see ourselves harnessed by kingly forces that inhibit our divinity; autonomy from our cultural dependency must be risked before Eden can be restored.

My skepticism was instilled when I was anthropologically schooled to believe in the inescapability of culture and value inter-cultural experiences, but our notion of culture recently has undergone a drastic transformation. Anthropology once held that cultures were isolated units to be known as distinct wholes. Observing other cultures promised to reveal what constitutes our own. We assumed that our own cultural issues could be rectified by our study of different cultural solutions to similar environmental constraints.

Then anthropologists underwent a paradigm shift. We ceased to profess the relativity of bounded cultures. We prefer the more current received idea that there are no bounded cultures. We now profess the unbounded and de-centered quality of all cultural practices. We know that collective cultural production is never an isolated process and that its forms are more amorphous than previously thought. We now recognize transnational cultural identities, practices and formations formerly unknown to the founding American anthropologists like Franz Boas and Alfred Kroeber. Our conception of culture has been liberated.

This book extends our re-evaluation of what culture is and means. Presumably a universal Edenic culture positing equality, justice and love will cultivate a freedom to pursue spiritual growth by supplanting current cultures of fear, domination, and war.

I believe that the only reason this book is not an international best seller is its cost and its size. Were it broken down into 3-4 paperbacks instead of a huge volume, the truth within would be spread faster. This is the most important and profound book since the Bible. It reinforced personal beliefs that I had held since childhood. My only disagreement with the book was the interpretation of reincarnation. I believe that we have many physical lives, but only one spiritual life. Like a string of pearls, all of our lives are held together to create one priceless spiritual life.

This book has no equivalent. At first, its approach might seem quite difficult. A man claims he has received a divine message that he is faithfully retransmitting to us. We have seen and heard so many "prophets" that the first reaction is to reject such a claim. But there is something magnetic about this book. You can't stop but going back to it. Why? because it does ring true. The book is too rich to summarise. It tells us that man's happiness will not come from laws, religion, politics, economics... The world needs to change. And each of us has a big part of responsability to make these changes happen. Oh, yes, the changes will not occur overnight. It will take a few generations but we can start today to point towards the right direction. This book gives us a frame of mind to think beyond the limits that culture has deeply rooted in us. Is humanity doomed to live under the pressure of chiefs and hierarchies? Is there an access to God outside established religions or dogmatic sects? Are not deeds much more important than declaration of faith without actions? What is the point of developing good within ourselves when the world pushes us to be ruthless "to succeed"? The books makes us realise that there might be a better brighter design out there for us than the world we are leaving in. And it is up to us to create this design.This is probably the most motivating message of hope I have ever read.

The stories are great to read aloud to children and all of the children in my reading group were especially intrigued by the illustrations. Hope to see more books by this talented duo!

We made this book are favorit book of the year. The book teaches us new words. It is scary and humorous. In Straw we talked how can things be true if they are not believed and God. In the House of Untold stories we talked on whats fair and being writers and write are own stories. You shold read it to.
Third Grade All Saints Elementary
- The children were drawn in by the thrilling and suspensful stories, and the richness of the language. The book is an excellent primer for moral discussion, and has wonderful applications for Creative Writing and Language Arts.

I liked this book. Five good stories for kids. I liked the first and third the best.

These five stories are wonderful for children ages 6-12. They're truly intriguing and told in a casual, convincing voice. Adults will enjoy reading them to smaller children.

The stories in this book are creative and fascinating. My kids (ages 7, 10 and 13) listened spellbound and repeatedly begged for "just one more" story. The stories are scary without being gory or terrifying. The characters are interesting and just believable enough to keep your interest. Highly recommended!

This book was amazing! It was a quick read that was written for a lay person to understand. If you are a Christian questioning what you have "always been taught" or someone that has turned away from the church because of the hypocritical ideals - you will want to read this book. It was engaging, thought-provoking but more than that created hope for me that not all Christians are closed minded.

Easy to read book that really explains the different beliefs of the fundamentalists. Highly recommended ~ you can't help but feel changed by the passionate and compassionate writing of Cox.

This book is very thought provoking and makes one realize that there is more than ONE form of Christianity out there. The FAR Right doesn't have all the answers. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the truth.

This book is for those people who are not afraid to think for themselves. It explores a different more sane approach to modern day theology. I highly recommend this book. It helps you realize that it is okay to question the Bible even okay to think for yourself and not be spoon fed.

A disclaimer: I know the Rev. Gary Cox, PhD, from a couple of seminars on Christian Theology and Church History that he taught locally, and I happen to believe that he is a great human being. So, I may be biased, but... I think his book is a must-read--especially for members of main-line protestant churches who are feeling a little queasy about what's being passed off as "Christianity" in the national media these days (and for members of fundamentalist churches who may be beginning to question what they are being told from the pulpit week after week). The book is a quick read, the writing is very clear, clean, and crisp. It makes a great small group discussion starter for use in the church (at the U.C.C. church where I attend, we used it recently as part of a weekly Lenten study group). Highly recommended.

This morning I picked up this commentary to see what he has to say, and it is good stuff. Dennis Johnson has written an excellent commentary on Revelation. I have also written one as well, and I have over 40 commentaries on this book. He gets to the heart of the matter. For any biblically literate person this is highly recommended. Great stuff.

This is a wonderful exposition of Revelation.
Many people seem surprised by Johnson's excellent detailing of Revelation's truths.
Yet this kind of teaching is NOT NEW to the church or the world. It is what had been believed all down through the history of the church. WILLIAM HENDRIKSEN (1940), WILLIAM MILLIGAN (1800's), and many many others have taught for AGES that the Old Testament is THE key to unlocking this book.

The general population has a problem with their understanding of The Book of Revelation only because a couple of highly popular authors have been teaching their own unscriptural fantasies about the Book of Revelation for the past 30 years.

I don't have to name names because these two sensationalists are so popular that everyone knows who I'm talking about.

The false church, along with the world, latches onto the utterances of these people because they do not understand the Book of Revelation either, allowing these two, along with a few others, and also another very odd man and his scary wife to get away with saying all manner of foolish speculations about the Book......though no one can refute what they say because so few have read the first 65 books required in order to break the code of the Book's symbology.

For many, many years, great theologians and teachers have taught the correct translation of The Book of Revelation, yet their voices have been drowned out by the popular worldly speculators whose theology is just plain wrong.

Dennis E. Johnson is not wrong, and I whole-heartedly recommend this book to anyone who has the love of the truth, and whose greatest desire is merely to know the TRUTH, regardless of what it is.

I also want to communicate to everyone reading this that there are many other great authors and teachers who know and love the truth, and lay it out nicely for everyone to understand. It's time we stood up and put an end to these money grubbing so-called teachers, who are nothing more than wolves in sheeps clothing.

I recommend the Revelation and prophecy-related books of These other wonderful and highly competent teachers of Truth:

William Hendriksen, G. K. Beale, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Louis A. Brighton, John Stott, Craig Koester, Leon Morris, Everett I. Carver, Richard Brooks, John Wick Bowman, Jay E. Adams, Earl Wesley Morey, Simon Kistemaker, Eugene Boring, Paul Butler, Vern Poythress, Philip E. Hughes, G.B. Caird, R.C.H. Lenski, Philip Mauro, Louis Berkhof, William Milligan, Herman Hoeksema, Stephen S. Smalley, William E. Cox, O.T. Allis, Michael Wilcock, Albertus Pieters, Geoffrey B. Wilson, Archibald Hughes, Ray Summers, & Malcolm Smith. There are also many others whom I haven't the time and space to name.
These good people lovingly teach truth and are not given to wild, ridiculous speculations about a future which the bible speaks nothing about. They don't try to make scripture fit their own silly pre-conceived notions, but instead exegete scripture by what it actually says and means, regardless of their own beliefs.

I apologize for saying little about Dennis's book, but I'll let the other reviewers speak for that. I agree that it his is a fine tome indeed. It's an easy read as well, so you don't have to keep a dictionary by your side the whole time, and I consider that to be a major issue with Revelation related books. Many great theologians are very lacking when it comes to being able to relate their great knowledge to others, especially the student and layman. Dennis has the great gift of relating his truths in an easy and understandable way.

I merely needed to get this off my chest after reading some reviews here where people seem very surprised to see a Revelation commentary which espouses that which most of the underground church has ALWAYS believed. This is only what has been taught for century upon century by many respected teachers and theologians (Though overshadowed by the popular masses).

Yes, Left Behind and The Late Great Planet Earth sell alot of books. Thats about all they have done, unfortunately...That is, make money. Sadly though, the one thing they haven't done is taught truth.

I just finished teaching an adult Sunday School series on Revelation. My brother-in-law, who is a professor at the same seminary where Dennis Johnson teaches, suggested this book as a resource. I relied heavily on this tome throughout the 11 weeks of the course, especially since I did not like the curricula I had found and ended up creating my own curriculum. The writing is clear and easy to follow. The concepts are organized and well thought out. The theological concepts and explanations are sound, scholarly work. Dennis did a great job tying in themes and references to the Gospels and Hebrew Scriptures. Bravo!

Johnson's commentary is amillenial, exegetically sound, and detailed without becoming verbose. I have read numerous commentaries on Revelation, and I consider this one of the very best. It ranks alongside William Hendriksen's More Than Conquerors and Vern Poythress' The Returning King, but is much more in-depth than either of those. Also highly recommended is Kistemaker's commentary.

For the past 15 or so years I have avoided Revelation, in part because I assumed the book would be too difficult for a normal guy like me to understand. Recently I decided it was time to stop neglecting this portion of God's Word.

Thanks to Dennis Johnson for producing such a well reasoned commentary without the sensationalism so common in modern Christian writings. I never dreamed that Revelation would make sense to me or, as it has, become my favorite book of the Bible. It pretty much summarizes the entire Bible.

I would encourage any who have, like me, been scared of Revelation to simply read it for what it says and compare Scripture with Scripture (rather than the evening news). Triumph of The Lamb will help you through this study. It certainly has helped me tremendously.

This book does a great job of delving into the text of revelation and trying to understand it through a similar framework of the first readers. The first time I read it, I thought they spent two much time talking in the first chapter about alien encounters and such. Then one of my friends led a bible study on revelation and the first comment was that it was an alien encounter/out of body experience. The authors were thinking ahead. Great book.

Wes Howard-Brook and Anthony Gwyther have written an excellent commentary on Revelation. Like most mainstream scholars they believe that John of Patmos was writing about the Roman empire of his day. What I found especially unique about this book, was its very fascinating account of the imperial court and imperial worship. The authors make a very good case that Revelation's message to its Asian Minor audience was not to compromise with the deadly - both to soul and body - Roman imperial culture.

Furthermore, the authors also discuss applications of Revelation to current social justice issues. I really learned a lot form this book. I also used Unveiling Empire to teach an adult education class at my church. The class seemed fairly well received, and part of the reason was due to this book.

This is a thematic rather than verse-by-verse commentary. An underlying premise is that the churches of Asia Minor who originally received this letter were not under the severe persecution from Rome that has long been assumed. The authors assert that it was in fact a time of peace and affluence, and the churches in Asia Minor were succumbing to assimilation. The parallels with churches in the West are therefore more exact and evocative than previous interpreters have understood. The authors are not shy about drawing out the similarities between Babylon (as depicted in Revelation) and contemporary global capitalism (the incarnation of Babylon that surrounds us today). Drawing inspiration from Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, as well as the interpretive and prophetic work of Daniel Berrigan and William Stringfellow, this is a provocative reading of a consistently neuralgic but unavoidable part of the canon. The political implications are drawn out in a final chapter dialogue between the authors.

Howard-Brook and Gwyther unpack what Revelation really means. Studying the book in its original context - remember, Revelation was written for the first century, not for us! - the authors still connect the concerns of John of Patmos' day to our own. They see Revelation's message of faithful resistance to the surrounding patriotic culture and how John warned the early Christians to resist it and preach the good news instead. And they uncover what the "beast" really is in modern society. A thoughtful and passionate understanding of this fantastic book's true message to both its time and our own.

Every truly great read has an exciting ending. The last chapter is where it all comes together.

Yet most who daily read the most popular book in the world, have never comprehended the last chapter, the Book of Revelation.

"Becoming Empire" identifies hundreds of 'hyper-links' in the text of Revelation to the preceding books of holy scriptures. The veil lifts, and the reader begins to see and hear not fictions of starwars, but God moving through history and pointing to the here and now.

Today is the battle, and God's children are in the front lines. The whole Bible, understood, is their map to victory.

I was truly blown away by the content of this volume. I must say that I was and still am an earnest seeker of truth, so in stumbling across this work was not a coincidence. I couldn't put it down. Something rang true on every page. In those nights and days of my first reading it, I could literally feel heaven closer to earth, or maybe I was drawn closer to Heaven. A light was ignited within my soul that could not be put out.

I am very grateful that this work exist, and trust that many would find it and be transformed by its content. Jesus is real, alive and well, and his mission was indeed to make known to all mankind that the potentiality to yearn for and receive the Divine Nature of God was re-bestowed to all mankind.

God is a Just God, and did not ordain a sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. Such nonsense of sacrificing to enter Heaven is all a creation of mankind. God ordained only Love, His own Divine Nature, to be the means whereby sin can be removed forever, by literally recreating the soul that yearns for this love into God's nature. This is the real Born again process. This is what Jesus taught before he was viciously murdered by greed and misguidance.

This book and the other volumes hold within it the testimonies of Angels and high spiritual beings who were once mortals on earth, and continue to have the best interest of humanity at heart.

There is no fear in Love, for you will discover all your fears melting away as you boldly decide to use you own freewill to get this book and read it prayerfully. We are all Children of a God that truly loves us, and who has given us the easiest solution to the problem of us being in separation from Him. And that solution does involve Jesus, but only as a messenger.

Jesus brought the message from God that human beings can now receive the nature of God, which was withdrawn after our first parents slighted it, and choose the devices of their own minds. Jesus demonstrated this message with his life, not by dying for mankind but by living the LOVE of God that had transformed his soul into a Divine Angel.

This Message of Jesus' true teachings were lost, corrupted and changed so as to suit the misguidance of greed and deceit, but now through these Angelic Revelations, this Message of the Gospel is revealed anew in its correct form for the entire world to see, hear and know. Salvation is an individual thing, and it involves us as individuals yearning sincerely for the Love (Nature of God) to possess and change us into a New Creature.

Heaven's light is shining upon earth, and the change for peace and goodwill that is occurring upon earth will indeed bring about a new earth. The current earth will not be destroyed by fire, but will be transformed one soul at a time into that which is truly Love and lovely. Highly recommended, 10 Stars. Human Operations Manual

This is truly 'the book' for the New Millenium. If you ever wondered what is the nature of God, what 'the soul' really is, if there will be a second coming of Jesus on earth,what were the actual events surrounding the death and resurrection of Jesus (the account of the events of Easter are like nothing I'd ever imagined) ,and more, much more...this 'is 'the book for you. I had been a biblical scholar for over thirty years when I was fortunate to stumble across this wonderfully powerful and most believable book. The contents, even if they are read as fiction, will astonish most readers. I feel I have been given a real account of the Gospels by those who were actually there. This book offers no shortage of attempts to correct the many errors and interpolations of the Gospels as well; something most open-minded biblical scholars will embrace. As an ordained Christian minister,I cannot give a higher recommendation...read this book!

I thank my lucky stars every day that this book (& volume II) came into my life. As a very dubious & cynical atheist, I approached these books with considerable skepticism... and to my utter amazement, found that they contain the Truth. My life is entirely transformed & I've seen others' lives transformed also, thanks to the Truths contained in "The Angelics".

Do yourself a favour, read this book... God's Divine Love is waiting for you & this book tells you how to receive it.

At a time when so many are searching for information on the "Historical Jesus", one might wonder why he doesn't just make an appearance and clear up the confusion. He has. Reading this book gave me an appreciation of Jesus and his teachings that decades of Bible study could not have achieved. If you've ever wondered what this man was really about, this is a book to read, and reread....

Quite simply, this is the single most important, life-altering book I've ever read or will read. The messages ring with truth, beauty and authority. For all those seeking the Truth, this book should be read, reread and treasured. In it can be found "the pearl of great price."

This book of 15 short stories is for seasoned readers who enjoy the challenge of literary fiction in which grace prevails, though not quickly or easily.

For starters, I recommend taking the time to read the book's introduction by James Vanden Bosch, which saves you from having to figure out that the male "narrator" in the stories (some are written in a first-person voice; others in third person) is "various narrators" who are nonetheless "recognizable versions of one basic narrator, a young man born in Hungary, raised as a Calvinist in a largely Catholic culture, who walked more or less innocently into the destructive energies of Eastern Europe in the 1930s." Though not all of the stories have the same characters, the narrative tone started on page 1 --- when the story's main character is aged 15, in 1936 --- is consistent enough throughout the book that by the last story --- when the main character is a grandfather immigrant to Florida, in the year 2000 --- you feel the satisfaction of having finished a novel.

The stories progress more or less chronologically, from the Hungarian freedom-fighters resisting Czech annexation, through World War II and Nazi ruination, followed by the hard fist of Soviet occupation. Eventually the narration moves to England and then to Florida, always with flashbacks to the harsh setting --- the dangers, toils and snares --- of war-torn or occupied Hungary.

The most satisfying stories are the ones for which the book is named, "A Bearer of Divine Revelation" and "The Angel of His Presence."

"Bearer" sets its narrator in Austria, after the War. He remembers a many- splendored childhood in Hungary. "By the time he was twenty-one, he was far away, sitting in a tank, half mad with fear and concentration, trying to survive. When he went home on leave, their house had been bombed to smithereens." Now in Salzburg, he has "sold his only item of value, the sheepskin lining of his coat." At a soup kitchen, a priest who appreciates his intellect and humility gives him a leather football --- which he promptly sells to a shoemaker --- and blesses him as a messenger of grace, "a bearer and announcer of the divine revelation." By the end of the story, begging food at another mission door, he eats bread: "crying and chewing at the same time, overcome by a terrible sadness, pity for God, who chose him and relied on him to be a bearer and announcer of the divine revelation."

The last three stories of the book seem to have the same main character --- older in each --- who, by the end, is celebrating his fiftieth wedding anniversary in a town in England, where he gets lost, walking alone on back streets. "Then his nervous system captured him and took him away to a place he didn't want to go," back to Western Russia in the winter and War: a "small hamlet" that "had been burned down either by the Red Army to deny shelter to the enemy or by the Germans or one of their allies." Three days earlier "he had become the lone survivor of an explosion that instantly transformed him from a soldier [Axis] into a toy figurine . . ." He sought refuge in a hut, where he --- the enemy --- was taken in by a holy man and woman who shared their last loaf of bread with him. " 'Ungaro [Hungarian],' the old man said, 'how can we receive the Heavenly Bread if we don't give you earthly bread?' " Grace upon grace, the mysterious old man entrusted the young soldier to another Russian, commanding: "When it gets dark you will take him to where the other Ungaros are so he can go home."

Only as an older man surrounded by his family, in a church celebrating his long marriage, can he understand the gift he had been given in that holy hut, the grace that called him to be a pilgrim named Christian.

--- Reviewed by Evelyn Bence

I live in the same town as Lawrence Dorr, know him personally, and have studied writing under him. His new collection, beautifully written, is a joy to read. He is a master of the short story. His life experiences hit the reader between the eyes and will be long remembered.

I recommend Lawrence Dorr to anyone who cares about intense and brilliant writing, as well as to those with interests in questions of faith and the travails of Europeans during and since World War II. Lawrence uniquely merges these three areas.

Here is one of the true artists and soul revealers of our time. If you haven't been lucky enough to read 'A Slight Momentary Affliction' (which by the way was nominated for the Pulitzer) or 'A Slow Soft River,' please read his latest triumph and grant yourself a window into the soul of a man who has known unimaginable suffering and come out on the side of love. His craft of touching the heart through the medium of story is unmatched. Haunting, full of surprises and unexpected hopes. Two thumbs up!

Lawrence Dorr's new work, "A Bearer of Divine Revelation," is a wonderful collection of stories, containing unforgettable characters and profound emotional truths. Dorr's world can be frightening, but in the end good prevails in the most unexpected manner, making his world once again a safe place to live. Dorr never hammers the reader with his ideas of God, but it is clear that his spiritual beliefs have a great deal to do with his perception of the past and present. Dorr creates unforgettable characters, as is rarely seen in the literary world today. They reflect the best and the worst of human fallibility, with an intensity that compels the reader toward a new understanding. Dorr also has the unique ability to explore his perception and interpretation of reality, but he never permits what is fictional to prevail. Dorr, a sharp observer of human behavior, writes of human life, action, thoughts, and beliefs - but in the end, it is clear that it is the divine, i.e., his faith, that will allow him to transcend the fraility of the humanness that plagues us all.

These 15 stories by Lawrence Dorr are much like stations of the cross. Each deals with an event in the life of the narrator, an émigré from Hungary after World War II and now a non-hyphenated American. Each story mirrors a world of suffering and loneliness but where love and friendships redeem. Dorr's belief is that God's grace is sufficient even in a violent and unpredictable world, thus his narratives, whether about war or deprivation as in "The Binge" and "The Barbershop on Kartner Strasse" or intimate family activities such as in "Lazarus" and "The Angel of His Presence," bring joy, messages of hope, and spiritual illumination. Dorr's themes shine amid poignant details about his life and history. Dorr also engages readers with plots that surprise and with subtle and sometimes humorous observations about human nature. His vocabulary and sentences are so carefully selected and crafted, his prose is a joy to read.

This "must have" book is a guide post to spiritual living. It ignores dogma and religionists while championing the living faith of Jesus. Those who find no home in organized religion will find comfort and a friend in these pages. Compelling, encouraging, thoughtful; yet easy to read and understand. Offers great hope for these troubled times.

This is a wonderful addition to the Urantia Book. It gets down to the nitty-gritty of some of the teachings and adds practical advice to each of those teachings. You may not agree with all of its advice or with all of its explanations of the teachings, however, you will agree that it is a must have for anyone on a spiritual journey.

The Urantia Book is one of the most inspiring books in print today. It's teachings are timeless and life giving. The Center Within takes a look at these teachings and brings them to the practical level of experience. From meditation (stillness) to social interaction, The Center Within is complete and full of loving insight!

Religious dogma and ritual have, at times, obscured the unifying fact that we are all children of God. This book is an attempt to focus our attention to one of the most basic aspects of our brief life here on earth - sharing God's love. With a Urantia book backdrop, The Center Within reminds us that God resides in each of us and encourages us to communicate with God through daily meditative "stillness" practice. It gives practical suggestions on how best to accomplish that connection with God and describes the fruits of the spirit that will emerge from that practice. Check it out, folks. I think you'll like it.

When I was first introduced to The Urantia Book a number of years ago, I was encouraged to look beyond the obstacle of authorship and judge the validity of it's message on it's content. The idea that the truth would "ring true" deep within my being was often expressed. I took this advice to heart, and as I immersed myself in it's pages, I was rewarded by a whole choir of bells ringing true within me. It pains me to think how many people out there are depriving themselves of this amazing message just because they can't deal with the possibility that the papers were authored by "superhuman beings". It really doesn't matter who wrote the papers at all, what matters is the message. I, for example, am writing this review. Very few people who read this actually know me, so the majority of you will have to ponder what I have written and take from it what you will. Why should any other message be any different?

That many people will choose not to read The Center Within because of the source of it's teachings pains me as well. Many of the same Urantians who will encourage those reading The Urantia Book to look at the message and not judge the book by it's authorship will do exactly the opposite to this book. And as with The Urantia Book, those who choose to ignore this book are depriving themselves of a beautiful, uplifting, and even practical message. I would encourage everyone, Urantian or not, to open themselves to this message. I know that you will not be dissappointed.

I had to post a review before I even read it, I just looked over the first chapter descriptions, read the back cover, and have to tell you I am shaking, over a period of many years of intensive reading, i know this book is the last one I need to read......it ties all of the pieces together, "know thyself", this book is soaked in TRUTH and LOVE, or should I say TRUTH IS LOVE!

When the book arrived, I was indeed surprised to see that the author had written me a personal greeting on page 2! That's a first! Thanks alot Fred, I will send you a more extensive thank-you on email... As for the content - this is one goldmine of a book which I hope more people will enjoy. It really shows that the essence of the Urantia Book lives on, and with renewed force!

Is it fact? Fiction? Expand your mind by reading this book. This dramatized account of contacts with spiritual beings makes one wonder. What part is true? How much is due to Mr. Harris' imagination? The answer is left to one's own experiences and how it corresponds to the value of the spiritual truths that Harris reveals.

This was a very inspiring book to both myself and family. It is a shame that so few people have found you as an author.

Our experiences in this life are amazing; if only we stop to notice. Fred has done this and found it so amazing that he has released it as a novel. I found myself devouring this book like my young son digs into his sci-fi. Fred has woven his favorite teachings into the fabric of this story--"build bridges, don't tear down walls"--and one cannot leave this book without gaining important insights from these teachings. This book, like a great experience, can actually effect positive changes on the reader--for as long as the reader will allow it to stay with him.

When I first started reading this book, I did not realize how much I was going to learn! I expected it to be a story about a man who discovered some spiritual truths along the way and his experience with The Urantia Book. Much to my delight, there were actual exercises that I could apply to my everyday life - effective immediately. There's the 1-2-3 exercise that you can put into practice right away. It even teaches you another way of looking at the people in your everyday life. Just a slight change of perspective can have such life-changing effects.

The basic message is about love and how to get there. The author, through two characters in the book, demonstrates how these two skeptics grew in spirituality, service and love. I have been looking for ways to be of service to others since reading this book ... I don't want to give away too many details - but I would tell you, if you're on any kind of spiritual path - read this book. You won't regret it.