Paper 133 of the Urantia Book, describes the story of Jesus' return from Rome together with his Indian merchant friend, Ganid and his son Gonod, after more than a year of travel together. The following is an incident described on page 1468, where in Gonod is asking Jesus about his opinion on the Caste System that was prevalent in his homeland India even those days:
One day while resting at lunch, about halfway to Tarentum, Ganid asked Jesus a direct question as to what he thought of India's caste system. Said Jesus: "Though human beings differ in many ways, the one from another, before God and in the spiritual world all mortals stand on an equal footing. There are only two groups of mortals in the eyes of God: those who desire to do his will and those who do not. As the universe looks upon an inhabited world, it likewise discerns two great classes: those who know God and those who do not. Those who cannot know God are reckoned among the animals of any given realm. Mankind can appropriately be divided into many classes in accordance with differing qualifications, as they may be viewed physically, mentally, socially, vocationally, or morally, but as these different classes of mortals appear before the judgment bar of God, they stand on an equal footing; God is truly no respecter of persons. Although you cannot escape the recognition of differential human abilities and endowments in matters intellectual, social, and moral, you should make no such distinctions in the spiritual brotherhood of men when assembled for worship in the presence of God."
Physically, mentally, socially, vocationally or morally people could be differentiated in this world, but before God they all stand on an equal footing for classification- those who know and obey His will and those who do not.
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