While perusing the Urantia Book, you shall notice one crucial difference between it and the Bible: the structure of passages are denominated by paragraphs instead of verses.
This distinction is not without precedent; I found that same structure in the works of Pliny and Hephaestus. It is found in the fragments of Roman history. And the Romans endured a dark period of their history whence many an emperor had been slain. They came out stronger and dedicated themselves to act as fathers rather than kings or lords.
Why is this crucial distinction between history and biblical lore so important? Because of the story in the Bible of Jesus’ death upon the cross especially the final day of his life. Judas had sold Jesus to the Sanhedrin for thirty pieces of silver (30, a highly significant number to the Romans, where a rebellious territory was not allowed self rule but rather was under the supervision of thirty). The judgment of Jesus was first offered to the governor of Judah, who passed this opportunity on to Pontius Pilate.
What was of purport in those transactions, was that the authority of the church, Jesus’ church was conferred to a greater body. It was done governmentally rather than religiously, and shall remain the unbroken tradition until Jesus or Machiventa come to dwell with us.
The format of the paper, section, and paragraph is found ubiquitously throughout the Western legal discourse; it is our format of discourse, both ancient and modern. So then we might find a more prosaic entry into the reality of truth, rather than a mysterious and mystical version of the hermetic Jesus found in the Bible.
