LESSON 2: The Liberation of Women

Promote Donna's book The Women Who Loved Jesus.

“The most astonishing and the most revolutionary feature of Michael's mission on earth was his attitude toward women. In a day and generation when a man was not supposed to salute even his own wife in a public place, Jesus dared to take women along as teachers of the gospel in connection with his third tour of Galilee. And he had the consummate courage to do this in the face of the rabbinic teaching which declared that it was ‘better that the words of the law should be burned than delivered to women.'

In one generation Jesus lifted women out of the disrespectful oblivion and the slavish drudgery of the ages. And it is the one shameful thing about the religion that presumed to take Jesus' name that it lacked the moral courage to follow this noble example in its subsequent attitude toward women. 149:2.8

Jesus' Attitude Toward Society

Jesus frequently warned his listeners against covetousness, declaring that ‘a man's happiness
consists not in the abundance of his material possessions.' He constantly reiterated, ‘What shall it
profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?' He made no direct attack on the
possession of property, but he did insist that it is eternally essential that spiritual values come
first. In his later teachings he sought to correct many erroneous Urantia views of life by narrating
numerous parables which he presented in the course of his public ministry. Jesus never intended
to formulate economic theories; he well knew that each age must evolve its own remedies for
existing troubles. And if Jesus were on earth today, living his life in the flesh, he would be a
great disappointment to the majority of good men and women for the simple reason that he
would not take sides in present-day political, social, or economic disputes. He would remain
grandly aloof while teaching you how to perfect your inner spiritual life so as to render you
manyfold more competent to attack the solution of your purely human problems. 140:8.17