Hello Rick…and All!! I wonder too about the logic of basing any human organizational and dissemination plan on any work that is not by or from the many patterns presented to us directly in and by the Revelation…surely there is sufficient structural design templates provided therein for us mortals to idealize and implement for our experience and improvement based on results and that experience.
The name is problematic….and fraudulent on its face. And damages any credibility the “Plan of Mortals” might actually aspire to by its misleading current title (easily remedied and revised though). Jesus clearly left the “keys” of mortal ministry management in the hands of mortals to work out such plans themselves and not, as I recall, with any expectation that a singular authority would claim them….except, perhaps as was mentioned here by another, as the nursemaid of a newborn infant or nurseryman of a new sprout. The Creator Son’s plan (now Master Son) is, of course, a multi-faceted and multi-dimensional and responsive “plan” placed into the capable hands of many agencies and agents of celestial orders with great diversity in focus, priority, and effect. To claim this one element of planetary upliftment as “THE” is, again, a falsehood that presumes an authority that does not exist among any mortal or group of mortals.
As to “our organization”…..I can only offer my opinion as I do not speak for or represent the membership on any such issues and in the Association, it IS the membership that determines policy. I don’t think archiving documents or posting web links should be perceived as any sort of organizational endorsement though in this or any other example…..but perhaps that issue should be considered more seriously. The endorsement of our previous President of the Board, though, could be viewed by some as more than a personal endorsement (incorrectly however).
To my knowledge, Urantia Association International does not aspire to any singularity of domination or authority but, rather, seeks simply to organize supporters into a corps of activists who are dedicated to the Foundation’s mission of publishing, translating, and distribution of the whole text to the whole world and support that effort by the affiliation and networking of students to meet, gather, read, discuss, debate, teach and learn by a system of connectivity resources – people linked to people to link people to people. This is the agenda as I understand it and its outcome will be determined by those people so engaged in time to come – it is but a super-structure and vehicular organization, not a doctrine or creed or authority, designed to flexibly adapt to the certain changes to come in membership, readership, opportunity and challenge.
IMO, that does not allow for the organizational supporting or proclaiming this project due to its title, its presumptions, and its goal of authoritarianism. However, I am very interested in any and all scholarly work that would help extract organizational patterns from the Revelation itself which might be useful in guiding future development of the cooperative and coordinated integration of shared goals by multiple organizations and activists which does not require uniformity by such an effort of unity. Diversity has its downside, as does authoritarianism. So far as I can discern, the parting words of “….you’re on your own now.” were definitive and instructive. This piece of apocrypha matches repletely our Master’s giving the “keys” of mortal ministry into the hands of the mortals then and there and to come. This is our puzzle to piece together, over time, by the evolutionary demands of error, improvement, new error, new improvement, ad infintum.
I hope I stated clearly that such is but one opinion by but one tadpole……..Peace.
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
