When to share the Urantia Book with others? The articles in this cluster carefully support the following default policy: introduce the book to individuals only in response to evidence of their capacity of receptivity.
There are two qualifications to this analysis. First, Jesus made exceptions to this policy. Jesus revealed his divine nature as the Deliverer to Nalda, the Samaritan woman at the well; he revealed himself as the Bread of Life in the epochal sermon; and he revealed himself his divinity, for example, as the Light of the World toward the end of his life. But there were specific reasons that justified the exceptions. Nalda was sincere, and there was no danger in revealing this in Samaria. The epochal sermon was in response to the organized opposition of his enemies—who had adequate evidence of the divinity of his life and teachings; he defended his flock and gave his enemies another chance to wake up to the fact that they were making a huge error fraught with dangerous for their people and their souls. And revealing his divinity at the end is something that Bestowal Sons do. These justifications imply that we do well to verify receptivity with individuals as our default policy, and only depart from it when we have clear and adequate reasons to do so.
The second qualification to this analysis is that it doesn’t cover communicating with groups of people with high average capacity of receptivity. Suppose a group of Christian leaders asks you to speak on The Urantia Book. Should you accept? I would say yes, unless you see particular reasons not to.
I have had remarkable responses after praying for the other person to say or do something which would be a clear sign for me to go ahead with the introducing the Urantia Book. I prefer to whet appetites and attract inquiry.
