The Book is as the revelators gave it to us.
How? What was the mechanism?
I hope to get this answered before iamresurrected gets this thread locked.
I did give a link to an explanation. If you get the time, read that.
Did physical pages of data just appear out of thin air?
Yes, apparently. Exactly. In one case, some 450 pages of tightly handwritten material materialized in Dr. Sadler's locked safe. Or something like that. It's at the link I gave. I'd have to re-read it myself or find the statement. NO ONE ever saw the process, as far as I know.
I ask, because since this is a modern-day example of celestial beings interjecting information into our collective mind, it would be illuminating to understand how this works.
Yes, of course. Here's the link again. http://www.609g.biz.ht/index.html
Remember, Joseph Smith found plates,
Yes, I know. I don't believe the Mormon story.
Moses claimed the Ten Commandments were written by the finger of God,
Yes, I know. Sigh. I don't believe that story either. Why didn't God use Stainless Steel instead of granite? And then the Hebrews lost them.
Ellen G. White went into a trance;
Yes, I know.
mediums speak the communications of spirits, many have had revelations.
Maybe some do and maybe some don't. Maybe some are con-artists. It's too subjective. I don't know.
Also, I take it, that the billion years of inhaling and the billion years exhaling is a symbolic number, much like 'Creation took seven days.'
Oh no, I don't think so. You can find the Space Respiration paragraph at 11:6.1, that is, Paper 11, Section 6, Paragraph 1, as numbered in the Uversa Press books. Or I can post it here if you like. In Urantia Foundation books it would still be Paper 11, Section 6.
I mention it because the generally held view held by physicists today is that the last Big Bang happened approx. 14.3 billion years ago and we are still in the expansionary, er, inhaling phase. —IM
Yes, The Urantia Book also says we are in the expansionary phase. Lucky guess, huh? Was that known to modern science in 1950? (I don't know, just asking.)
The problem above is the words, "the generally held view." That's not science, that's opinions. Don't you think it's the least bit strange that "modern" science can tell us that the alleged big bang happened 14.3 billion years ago, give or take 5 minutes, but they have no idea what makes up 96% of the universe, "dark matter" and "dark energy"? 96% of the universe is HYPOTHETICAL, but somehow they know exactly when the alleged Big Bang happened? I don't think so.
I am enjoying having a civil discussion about this.