The Life and Teachings of Jesus: Part 4 of the Urantia Book

Most people are interested in the life of Jesus, especially the childhood years. This detailed biography of Jesus is from the fourth book of Urantia. Fact or fiction, the reader, decides, but it is a dramatic narration - readable, warm, and most impressive when speculating of the source of the material. The exact circumstances of the origin of The Urantia Book are unknown. The book and its publishers do not name a human author. Instead, it is written as if directly presented by numerous celestial beings appointed to the task of providing an "epochal" religious revelation. As early as 1911, William S. Sadler and his wife Lena Sadler, physicians in Chicago and well known in the community, are said to have been approached by a neighbor who was concerned because she would occasionally find her husband in a deep sleep and breathing abnormally. She reported that she was unable to wake him at these times. The Sadlers came to observe the episodes, and over time, the individual produced verbal communications that claimed to be from "student visitor" spiritual beings. This changed sometime in early 1925 with a "voluminous handwritten document," which from then on became the usual method of purported communication. The individual was never identified publicly but has been described as "a hard-boiled businessman, member of the board of trade and stock exchange."