world of the cross

• Urantia known as

20:6.6When the be­stowal Sons, Cre­ator or Mag­is­te­rial, en­ter the por­tals of death, they reap­pear on the third day. But you should not en­ter­tain the idea that they al­ways meet with the tragic end en­coun­tered by the Cre­ator Son who so­journed on your world nine­teen hun­dred years ago. The ex­traor­di­nary and un­usu­ally cruel ex­pe­ri­ence through which Je­sus of Naz­a­reth passed has caused Uran­tia to be­come lo­cally known as “the world of the cross.” It is not nec­es­sary that such in­hu­man treat­ment be ac­corded a Son of God, and the vast ma­jor­ity of plan­ets have af­forded them a more con­sid­er­ate re­cep­tion, al­low­ing them to fin­ish their mor­tal ca­reers, ter­mi­nate the age, ad­ju­di­cate the sleep­ing sur­vivors, and in­au­gu­rate a new dis­pen­sa­tion, with­out im­pos­ing a vi­o­lent death. A be­stowal Son must en­counter death, must pass through the whole of the ac­tual ex­pe­ri­ence of mor­tals of the realms, but it is not a re­quire­ment of the di­vine plan that this death be ei­ther vi­o­lent or un­usual.

• Urantia known as

57:8.6It was at about this time that Uran­tia was as­signed to the sys­tem of Sa­ta­nia for plan­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tion and was placed on the life reg­istry of Nor­la­ti­adek. Then be­gan the ad­min­is­tra­tive rec­og­ni­tion of the small and in­signif­i­cant sphere which was des­tined to be the planet whereon Mi­chael would sub­se­quently en­gage in the stu­pen­dous un­der­tak­ing of mor­tal be­stowal, would par­tic­i­pate in those ex­pe­ri­ences which have since caused Uran­tia to be­come lo­cally known as the “world of the cross.”

• Urantia known as

119:8.8Uran­tia is the sen­ti­men­tal shrine of all Neb­a­don, the chief of ten mil­lion in­hab­ited worlds, the mor­tal home of Christ Mi­chael, sov­er­eign of all Neb­a­don, a Mel­chiz­e­dek min­is­ter to the realms, a sys­tem sav­ior, an Adamic re­deemer, a se­raphic fel­low, an as­so­ciate of as­cend­ing spir­its, a mor­ontia pro­gres­sor, a Son of Man in the like­ness of mor­tal flesh, and the Plan­e­tary Prince of Uran­tia. And your rec­ord tells the truth when it says that this same Je­sus has prom­ised some­time to re­turn to the world of his ter­mi­nal be­stowal, the World of the Cross.

• Urantia known as

188:4.1Al­though Je­sus did not die this death on the cross to atone for the racial guilt of mor­tal man nor to pro­vide some sort of ef­fec­tive ap­proach to an oth­er­wise of­fended and un­for­giv­ing God; even though the Son of Man did not of­fer him­self as a sac­ri­fice to ap­pease the wrath of God and to open the way for sin­ful man to ob­tain sal­va­tion; not­with­stand­ing that these ideas of atone­ment and pro­pi­ti­a­tion are er­ro­neous, nonethe­less, there are sig­nif­i­cances at­tached to this death of Je­sus on the cross which should not be over­looked. It is a fact that Uran­tia has be­come known among other neigh­bor­ing in­hab­ited plan­ets as the “World of the Cross.”