What does The Urantia Book say about Jesus being the Saviour?
[print] [email] Several quotes relate directly to this question: “Though it is hardly proper to speak of Jesus as a sacrificer, a ransomer, or a redeemer, it is wholly correct to refer to him as a savior.” (188:4.7,Pg 2017) “Jesus is truly a savior in the sense that his life and death do win men over to goodness and righteous survival. Jesus loves men so much that his love awakens the response of love in the human heart.” (188:5.2, Pg 2018) According to The Urantia Book, Jesus’ life among us served to illuminate the way of salvation, but his death was not a ransom paid to appease an offended God. It was, and still is, his life of unselfish service and his revelation of the true and loving nature of our Heavenly Father that illuminated and opened the way of salvation for all who sincerely seek it. Jesus does save us, not from God, but from our own base, ignorant, and selfish natures. Jesus revealed that each person, by wholeheartedly trusting in the absolute goodness of God as his infin
