TrueAce
10-07-2006, 10:41 PM
Greetings.
I've been a student of the Urantia Book (http://truthofurantia.com) for 27 years. I came 'out-of-the-closet' twice, the first time 3 years before finding the Urantia Book, and again 7 years after finding it.
One month before finding the Urantia Book, I experienced a spiritual epiphany. I came into the inwardly-certain knowledge of my sonship with God as my true and loving Father, independent of all external "religious" organizational influences. My growing awareness of the true nature and character of God through genuine personal experience set me upon the course of searching for literary confirmation of the truth about his Person. In my readings of Scripture I found myself greatly dismayed at the inconsistencies in its portrayal of the divine character and nature. My search for literary confirmation of the truth of my profoundly personal spiritual experience led me to discover the Urantia Book, and upon reading it, to discover it to be all that it says it is.
Nevertheless, as powerful a subliminal influence upon the psychology as is the legacy of the erroneous teachings about God perpetuated by the religions of tradition, I decided I would still give God the opportunity to discretely change me into a heterosexual. In spite of my intellectual understanding, my spiritual awareness, and even of the reinforcement of the teachings of the Urantia Book about what God is really like, I still allowed time to pass to possibly 'arrive' at a genuine sexual attraction to women.
That outlook finally dissipated completely after 7 years, whereupon I finally and fully accepted the truth:
Gays and lesbians are as fully endowed as any "straight" person with the spiritual birthright to lay firm hold upon their certain status as full-fledged and fully-deserving sons and daughters of our infinitely-loving heavenly Father as his FREE GIFT, to be realized by faith as the soul's attitude and joyfully experienced through grace. Gays and lesbians are just as capable as any "straight" person to sincerely seek out our Father's will in every day life, and to honestly strive to do that divine will.
No longer shall the religions of tradition presume to render the sincere of heart into perceived spiritual isolation, to orphan them from the tender mercies and loving ministry of our heavenly Father and his Divine Ministers until such time as they should surrender the honest attraction to the same sex in the honorable pursuit of a partner in life.
I've been a student of the Urantia Book (http://truthofurantia.com) for 27 years. I came 'out-of-the-closet' twice, the first time 3 years before finding the Urantia Book, and again 7 years after finding it.
One month before finding the Urantia Book, I experienced a spiritual epiphany. I came into the inwardly-certain knowledge of my sonship with God as my true and loving Father, independent of all external "religious" organizational influences. My growing awareness of the true nature and character of God through genuine personal experience set me upon the course of searching for literary confirmation of the truth about his Person. In my readings of Scripture I found myself greatly dismayed at the inconsistencies in its portrayal of the divine character and nature. My search for literary confirmation of the truth of my profoundly personal spiritual experience led me to discover the Urantia Book, and upon reading it, to discover it to be all that it says it is.
Nevertheless, as powerful a subliminal influence upon the psychology as is the legacy of the erroneous teachings about God perpetuated by the religions of tradition, I decided I would still give God the opportunity to discretely change me into a heterosexual. In spite of my intellectual understanding, my spiritual awareness, and even of the reinforcement of the teachings of the Urantia Book about what God is really like, I still allowed time to pass to possibly 'arrive' at a genuine sexual attraction to women.
That outlook finally dissipated completely after 7 years, whereupon I finally and fully accepted the truth:
Gays and lesbians are as fully endowed as any "straight" person with the spiritual birthright to lay firm hold upon their certain status as full-fledged and fully-deserving sons and daughters of our infinitely-loving heavenly Father as his FREE GIFT, to be realized by faith as the soul's attitude and joyfully experienced through grace. Gays and lesbians are just as capable as any "straight" person to sincerely seek out our Father's will in every day life, and to honestly strive to do that divine will.
No longer shall the religions of tradition presume to render the sincere of heart into perceived spiritual isolation, to orphan them from the tender mercies and loving ministry of our heavenly Father and his Divine Ministers until such time as they should surrender the honest attraction to the same sex in the honorable pursuit of a partner in life.