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RE: Source: When I posted: *Says, something to the effect: everything (all of creation) always was.Then he continues........ with something to the effect, (without going back and rereading the book to find out his exact words): Is that so hard to imagine? Is it so hard to imagine, that everything that exists, did not come into being, was not created, but always existed?* I did not mean that I was ascribing to that Neo Tech idea. I was being facetious. When I read that my BS meter went off. (And I certainly do not have the answer either.) But I would like to challenge him on the idea, some day. But that is not a near enough of a priority for me yet. There are a couple of books that I recommend reading for you, and they are: The Oahspe bible, a channeled bible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahspe:_A_New_Bible http://www.angelfire.com/in2/oahspe3/odownload.html and the Urantia book: http://www.urantia.org/urantia-book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book *Excerpt from wikipedia:* *The Urantia Book* (sometimes called the *Urantia Papers* or *The Fifth Epochal Revelation*) is a spiritual<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality>and philosophical <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy> book that originated in Chicago <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago> sometime between 1924 and 1955. The authorship remains a matter of speculation. The authors introduce the word "Urantia" as the name of the planet Earth<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth>and state that their intent is to "present enlarged concepts and advanced truth."[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2003138-1> [2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Urantia_Book19551-2>The book aims to unite religion, science and philosophy, [3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2003129-3>and its enormous amount of material about science is unique among literature claimed to be presented by celestial beings.[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-FOOTNOTEThe_Urantia_Book19551-2> Among other topics, the book discusses the origin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life>and meaning of life <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_of_life>, mankind's place in the universe <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe>, the relationship between God <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God> and people, and the life of Jesus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus>. It has been described as "a rich and complex moral narrative, equal parts Tolkien<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R.R._Tolkien>and St. Paul <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul>."[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-Nasht2006-4> The Urantia Foundation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urantia_Foundation>, a U.S.-based non-profit group <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-profit_group>, first published *The Urantia Book* in 1955. In 2001, a jury found that the English book's copyright was no longer valid after 1983.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-Michael2003-5>The English text became a public domain <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain> work in the United States,[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-FOOTNOTELewis2007208-6>and in 2006 the international copyright expired. [a] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book#cite_note-8> David
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