Martin Gardner on The Urantia Book

“The UB's Jesus section is indeed a well-written, impressive work. Either it is accurate in its history, coming directly from higher beings in position to know, or it is a work of fertile imagination by someone who knew the New Testament by heart and who was also steeped in knowledge of the times when Jesus lived.”

“The grand universe registry number of Urantia is 5,342,482,337,666 (UB 182). … Could it be that the thirteen digits in Urantia's registry number conceal some sort of message? I asked my old friend Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix, the world's most famous numerologist, for his opinion of this mysterious number. … Satan, Dr. Matrix reminded me, likes to take things backward. So let's reverse the number and partition it like so:666-73-328-42435The first three digits are, of course, the number assigned to the Beast, an incarnation of Satan, described in the Bible's last book. The next two digits, 7 and 3, add to 10, the number of letters in "Revelation". The three digits in the next set, 3, 2, and 8, add to 13, a chapter in Revelation. The last set of five digits, 4, 2, 4, 3, 5, add to 18, the number of a verse. Now Revelation 13:18 is the very verse in which 666 is assigned to the Beast!”