Utantia
The Bible, harmonized with the teachings of the Urantia Papers — a study Bible in two columns. In preparation; this is its home.
One door on this page stands open at the far end of the shelf: The Books Left Out — the sacred books the King James canon does not hold, and the place reserved for them here.
The vision
Utantia is a new presentation of the Bible, set up under the context of the Urantia Papers — everything aligned with what the Papers teach — made as a study Bible: to guide Christians who study the Papers, and for anyone curious what that reading of scripture looks like. Traditional scripture in one column; a Urantia-aligned rendering and commentary in the other, for instant compare-and-contrast; cross-references and footnotes throughout. Before anything is published, people knowledgeable in both the King James text and the Papers compare and approve what has been assembled — human-expert review is part of the design, not an afterthought.
The format — locked
| King James Version | Utantia — aligned text & commentary |
|---|---|
| The traditional scripture, verse by verse, in the classic King James text — the settled base text of this work. | The same passage re-presented in the light of the Papers’ teachings, with commentary, conceptual cross-references to the Papers cited in the standard notation (Paper:Section.Paragraph), and study questions — indexed verse by verse by The Paramony of Duane L. Faw, the core technical index mapping the Bible against the Papers. |
The side-by-side layout is non-negotiable — dual columns, never back-and-forth block commentary. Each book carries, ahead of the columns, an introductory alignment summary of its chapters.
The heart of it
The gentle, loving nature of the Heavenly Father; the simplicity of personal faith; true worship as living in love and harmony; perfection as a progressive future promise across eternal timelines, not an immediate earthly expectation. The core work is the removal of fear-based readings: “salt of the earth” losing its savor, for instance, read as an organic loss of spiritual fruitfulness and alignment — not a vindictive deity executing eternal damnation. Cosmic humor, joy, and variety are part of spiritual growth, and the tone is set accordingly: never rigid, dogmatic, or condemning.
Order of work
The Gospel of John first — it carries the deepest synergy with the Papers’ presentation of the life and teachings of Jesus, and its cross-referencing blueprint exists. Then Genesis — the alignment framework for planetary beginnings, early human history, and the movements of peoples. The canon is followed book by book from there. Inclusion of the apocrypha stands open — readers asked for it when the project was announced; the question is the editor’s, in its turn.
The Workshop
When this endeavor begins in earnest, the harmonizing will not be done alone, and it will not be done in the dark. Qualified or invited guests — readers at home in both the King James text and the Papers — may read the draft harmonizations as they are assembled and take part in the work: reviewing a passage against the Paramony, testing a rendering, signing off on a change they have read and weighed.
The law of the room is the law of this whole house. Every contribution is signed. A change enters the text only with a name behind it — or with a deliberately recorded anonymity, which is also a kind of signature: the record shows that a real reader stood here, whether or not the world is told who. Credit is given where it is due, and the choice of credit belongs to the contributor: credited by name, or anonymous on the record, as each guest elects. Invited readers may sign off on the changes they have reviewed, and their sign-offs stand in the record beside the work they approved. The editor’s signature is last, and it is required: nothing publishes unsigned.
Status: planned, not yet open. The workshop is described here so its law is settled before its first guest arrives; it opens when the endeavor begins and the first invitations are given. There is no form on this page, no account to make, and no machinery for submitting work — by design, and for now. When the room opens, it will open here.
The Books Left Out
The base of this work is the 66-book King James canon. Books left out of that canon — the Apocrypha, the deuterocanonical books: Tobit, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, First and Second Maccabees, the additions to Esther and Daniel, and their companions — were left out by the canon’s definition, not by this work’s judgment. They are named here plainly because a door that does not name what it opens to is not much of a door.
The plan, stated as a plan: in due course these books can be taken up for alignment under the same law as the rest — the two tracks, the dual columns, every intervention keyed and signed, the editor’s decision last. This section is where that work will live when it begins. And the far end of the shelf is left open: other sacred books may in time be judged to belong in this conversation. None is promised here.
Status: a place reserved; the work not begun. Nothing here is aligned yet, and no texts are presented — this section records an intention and keeps its place, under the standing rule of the house that nothing unfinished is advertised as done.
Status
In preparation. The format is locked and a two-column master template is established; no final chapter texts are complete yet. The project was announced to the Urantia Facebook Group on August 9, 2026, and the reception was warm. When the Gospel of John is built and signed, it will live here — chapter pages in the dual-column layout — and Genesis will follow the same pattern. Nothing appears on this page that is not finished; the standing rule of the house.