Conversations with God the Movie

^121:8.12 ^{Acknowledgment: In carrying out my commission to restate the
teachings and retell the doings of Jesus of Nazareth, I have drawn
freely upon all sources of record and planetary information. My
ruling motive has been to prepare a record which will not only be
enlightening to the generation of men now living, but which may also
be helpful to all future generations. From the vast store of
information made available to me, I have chosen that which is best
suited to the accomplishment of this purpose. As far as possible I
have derived my information from purely human sources. Only when
such sources failed, have I resorted to those records which are
superhuman. When ideas and concepts of Jesus' life and teachings
have been acceptably expressed by a human mind, I invariably gave
preference to such apparently human thought patterns. Although I
have sought to adjust the verbal expression the better to conform to
our concept of the real meaning and the true import of the Master's
life and teachings, as far as possible, I have adhered to the actual
human concept and thought pattern in all my narratives. I well know
that those concepts which have had origin in the human mind will
prove more acceptable and helpful to all other human minds. When
unable to find the necessary concepts in the human records or in
human expressions, I have next resorted to the memory resources of
my own order of earth creatures, the midwayers. And when that
secondary source of information proved inadequate, I have
unhesitatingly resorted to the superplanetary sources of
information.}

^{121:8.13
The memoranda which I
have collected, and from which I have prepared this narrative of the
life and teachings of Jesus -- aside from the memory of the record
of the Apostle Andrew -- embrace thought gems and superior concepts
of Jesus' teachings assembled from more than two thousand human
beings who have lived on earth from the days of Jesus down to the
time of the inditing of these revelations, more correctly
restatements. The revelatory permission has been utilized only when
the human record and human concepts failed to supply an adequate
thought pattern. My revelatory commission forbade me to resort to
extrahuman sources of either information or expression until such a
time as I could testify that I had failed in my efforts to find the
required conceptual expression in purely human sources.}

^{121:8.14
While I, with the
collaboration of my eleven associate fellow midwayers and under the
supervision of the Melchizedek of record, have portrayed this
narrative in accordance with my concept of its effective arrangement
and in response to my choice of immediate expression, nevertheless,
the majority of the ideas and even some of the effective expressions
which I have thus utilized had their origin in the minds of the men
of many races who have lived on earth during the intervening
generations, right on down to those who are still alive at the time
of this undertaking. In many ways I have served more as a collector
and editor than as an original narrator. I have unhesitatingly
appropriated those ideas and concepts, preferably human, which would
enable me to create the most effective portraiture of Jesus' life,
and which would qualify me to restate his matchless teachings in the
most strikingly helpful and universally uplifting phraseology. In
behalf of the Brotherhood of the United Midwayers of Urantia, I most
gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to all sources of record and
concept which have been hereinafter utilized in the further
elaboration of our restatement of Jesus' life on earth.}