*This is God: The who-what-when-where-how and why of God, our great Source and Center of all things. [in construction]
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MORAL RELATIVITY [scroll to the bottom]
Explanation for why there is such corruption, lack of care, harm, death etc...currently on our world. God is incorrectly defined.
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This Is God!
Within each of us there is an internal drive to discover God and to worship Him. When even the atheist declares “There is no God” this is a statement proving that the idea of God is already held within their own minds. If this were not so there would be no need for a declaration. However, there is great confusion in our world about the concepts of God, divinity, deity and appellations like angels and other superhuman personalities that may, at times, be experienced by someone. This paper will describe in our terms, and for our time on our world, who God is, what He does for us, when, where and how He works. Of highest importance is to know WHY He is as such. And this answer is simple. God Loves You! So – let us dive right in and discover God for ourselves with an initial understanding that preconceived notions are best set aside with a clean slate in our minds for new and better understandings to emerge.
God is love.
God’s divine character and nature can best be understood by comprehending the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God and the son of man, meaning Jesus is and was both human and divine [God]. Jesus is the material and physical expression of God Himself, as a Master Creator Son. This makes it paramount that one embraces what is actually true regarding Jesus’ saying-s and doing-s. If you desire to know what our Master actually said and did you will find this expansive information in Part 4 of The Urantia Book which dictates what He said by way of the apostle Andrew’s Midwayer [an invisible citizen of our planet who works for the good of mankind].
God is infinite and the Supreme Soul.
He is the source and destiny of our souls. God is the Primal Mind and the Unlimited Spirit of all creation. Here is a short list of some of His attributes:
* perfect: God makes no mistakes
* devoid of fear and enmity: He loves
* immortal
* eternal
* self-existent
* divine
* bountiful
* pure
* beautiful
* true
* deep and unfathomable
* excellent: He imparts Himself to us
* He IS the beginning and the end
* Father of every good and perfect purpose
* God knows Himself fully
* He meets every real need
* God sees the end from the beginning
* knows all things – past, present and future
* He is the great and only I AM
* infinite in attributes
* He is GOOD
* 100% spirit vs. we who are 99.99% material, this means we must seek to discover Him within
* author and bestower of free will choice
* God becomes man as occurred with His Son, our Jesus
* He places a fragment of Himself within the minds of His lowly creatures – us
* In this way He becomes as close as one can ever be with us. God is our friend!
Who is God?
God is love personified.
Our Father wants only good to come to you. When hard times arrive in our lives it is God, and His workers, who provides your loving help. He is never the source of error, evil or harm. He is no respecter of persons [does not show favoritism]. All of us are ‘chosen people’ in that He has chosen to place a fragment of Himself within each of us. These God fragments are called Thought Adjusters. They indwell all humans with the ability to make a moral choice.
2:5.1 “God is love”; therefore his only personal attitude towards the affairs of the universe is always a reaction of divine affection. The Father loves us sufficiently to bestow his life upon us. “He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.”
God is spiritual love.
Although He is vast, unfathomable to our mortal minds in His expanse and abilities, He is astonishingly and tenderly caring as He intimately places His own spirit-fragment to indwell us in order to have a personal and close friendship [True Religion as Jesus taught]. He longs for this loving relationship with His children. He can give us His love and receive our love in return. In this, we can experience His presence in our lives and this brings God, and us, joy. Have you ever wondered how God sees things? We ask in prayer for many things from God’s hand and He listens. But – have you ever thought to ask God how HIS day is going?, is He busy? It is sort of funny to think about, but if you never asked how your friend’s day has been, never showed any interest in them – how would they feel? Well, God is a PERSON! Ask Him sometime. Show some interest in Him and ask Him what He wants – today.
4:4.6 In God the Father freewill performances are not ruled by power, nor are they guided by intellect alone; the divine personality is defined as consisting in spirit and manifesting himself to the universes as love. Therefore, in all his personal relations with the creature personalities of the universes [US], the First Source and Center is always and consistently a loving Father. God is a Father in the highest sense of the term. He is eternally motivated by the perfect idealism of divine love, and that tender nature finds its strongest expression and greatest satisfaction in loving and being loved.
Father’s presence within my mind and heart is so personal, so deeply moving in kindness, grace and patience – I find myself healed, lifted up within, encouraged and understood in ways almost too deep for words. However, my heart for service to Him compels me to try and describe who He is, not only to me personally, but His potential for these same things within ALL of His children. God is love. Yes! ~ Marin
God is good.
In the past, many have described God as they saw fit for various reasons. Personal and national motivations of humans have often determined what our records have historically said about God. Hence, our great confusion. But if we want to personally discover the goodness of God for ourselves we will find Him in His spiritual realm through our own private pursuits in authentic worship by way of ‘attainment’ stillness practice. It is in this quiet reflection and spiritual intake of Him that we begin to see who He is and how deeply He loves, cares and nurtures us as His child.
5:4.6 The Hebrews based their religion on goodness; the Greeks on beauty; both religions sought truth. Jesus revealed a God of love, and love is all-embracing of truth, beauty, and goodness.
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5:4.7 The Zoroastrians had a religion of morals; the Hindus a religion of metaphysics; the Confucianists a religion of ethics. Jesus lived a religion of service. All these religions are of value in that they are valid approaches to the religion of Jesus. Religion [friendship with God] is destined to become the reality of the spiritual unification [coherence] of all that is good, beautiful, and true in human experience.
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God’s goodness is far-seeing. Looking back I see my enormous struggles and hardships as I wondered how I would survive. He knew what was being forged within me in those dark times. His goal for us is to be good, strong in love, forgiveness and compassion. With our will, His will can be done for our good. Do you see? Nothing can keep you from His goodness save our own selfish will in opposition to His will. Let go and let God. Yes.
~ Marin
God is coherent beauty.
Example: My dad kept a magnetic desk toy in his office. It was comprised of many small pieces of metal that would stick to a magnetic base. I played with this thing many times. I enjoyed pulling the little pieces up and watching them fall in perfect magnetic attraction. These would immediately stick to the base no matter what I did. As a child I wondered how this could be! With fascination I experienced this cohesion, this sticking together by some invisible force of power. This is an example of what it means to ‘cohere’ to something where two different things became one unit. Time and time again, unfailingly, they would cling and cleave together. ~ Marin
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2:7.7 The eternal quest is for unification, for divine coherence. The far-flung physical universe coheres in the Isle of Paradise; the intellectual universe coheres in the God of mind, the Conjoint Actor [3rd person of the Trinity]; the spiritual universe is coherent in the personality of the Eternal Son [2nd person of the Trinity]. But the isolated mortal of time and space coheres [becomes unified as one] in God the Father through the direct relationship between the indwelling Thought Adjuster and the Universal Father [God]. Man’s Adjuster is a fragment of God and everlastingly seeks for divine unification; it coheres with, and in, the Paradise Deity of the First Source and Center. [The terms ‘mankind, man and sons’ all include women and girls. Females are also ‘sons of God’.]
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2:7.8 The discernment of supreme beauty is the discovery and integration of reality [God IS reality]: The discernment of the divine goodness in the eternal truth, that is ultimate beauty [the interplay between God with His child and His creations].
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God is incapable of ugly error, evil or sin.
111:1.6 Mind is the cosmic instrument on which the human will can play the discords of destruction, or upon which this same human will can bring forth the exquisite melodies of God identification [cohesion] and consequent eternal survival. The Adjuster bestowed upon man is, in the last analysis, impervious to evil and incapable of sin, but mortal mind can actually be twisted, distorted, and rendered evil and ugly by the sinful machinations of a perverse and self-seeking human will. Likewise can this mind be made noble, beautiful, true, and good — actually great — in accordance with the spirit-illuminated will of a God-knowing human being.
God will never produce harm, violence, hate or malice. This is an impossibility! If things like these are present it will be the love of God who heals and the law of God that destroys these man-made and erroneous, evil, unloving things of hate.
188:5.2 The cross forever shows that the attitude of Jesus toward sinners was neither condemnation nor condonation, but rather eternal and loving salvation. Jesus is truly a savior in the sense that his life and death do win men over to goodness and righteous survival. Jesus [who is God] loves men so much that his love awakens the response of love in the human heart. Love is truly contagious and eternally creative. Jesus' death on the cross exemplifies a love which is sufficiently strong and divine to forgive sin and swallow up all evil-doing. Jesus disclosed to this world a higher quality of righteousness than justice — mere technical right and wrong. Divine love does not merely forgive wrongs; it absorbs and actually destroys them. The forgiveness of love utterly transcends the forgiveness of mercy. Mercy sets the guilt of evil-doing to one side; but love destroys forever the sin and all weakness resulting therefrom. Jesus brought a new method of living to Urantia. He taught us not to resist evil but to find through him a goodness which effectually destroys evil. The forgiveness of Jesus is not condonation; it is salvation from condemnation. Salvation does not slight wrongs; it makes them right. True love does not compromise nor condone hate; it destroys it. The love of Jesus is never satisfied with mere forgiveness. The Master's love implies rehabilitation, eternal survival. It is altogether proper to speak of salvation as redemption if you mean this eternal rehabilitation. [No blood shed is necessary – the atonement doctrine of Paul in the New Testament was Paul’s own fabrication. God does not work like this]. Paul taught error intimating that Jesus said the same things. He did not!
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God is truth.
Fear has always been a powerful human motivator in terms of controlling people.
Example: The Greeks invented the concept of Hades/Hell for their reasons pursuant to control and a shaming tool for those they thought had weak souls. This concept has taken root and is found in many world religions. This is not ‘truth’!
This fallacy of the character of God as one needing to execute eternal punishment, torture and suffering is a good example of how great confusion on our world regarding the nature of God has continued up until today. This will be corrected! God is incapable of this cruel and ugly enactment upon the children that He cherishes. The truth is that God loves us and wants us to love our fellows. And in this way we become more and more like Him. When man tries to control other men, the first tool in their toolbox is often fear [shame]; and with this fear, money can come pouring in from those who want to use this supposed ‘wrath of God’ to produce their ends by fear. Here is the GOOD NEWS! God is not angry! God does not punish His children! There is no Hell! If there is error, evil and sin in our world it is due to man’s free will choice and propensity for selfishness, greed and control. These are not the things of God. God is truth!
5:4.2 The great and immediate service of true religion [friendship with God] is the establishment of an enduring unity in human experience [cohesion with God], a lasting peace and a profound assurance. With primitive man, even polytheism is a relative unification of the evolving concept of Deity; polytheism [many gods] is monotheism [one true God] in the making. Sooner or later, God is destined to be comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth [God is all things ‘good’].
In a material world where confusion and chaos are rampant we must focus on God’s spiritual realm in order to grow spiritually. His truth will hit the bullseye in His target of our hearts. He is an expert in this and we should trust Him as He seeks to show us His truth, and this grounds us in an ever-shifting world filled with whizzing voices and off-target theories. God is stabilizing. God is truth. ~ Marin
God is kind.
Our Father hopes for our successes, and as the giver of our free will He is not surprised that we make mistakes [error], choose that which we know is not good [evil]. The very point of His giving us life means that we will need to learn from our mistakes by experiential progression. Our good God does not punish His erring children for making mistakes as we go about using the very free will that He gave to us anymore than a good human parent does not torture their child for breaking a rule.
Example: A 12 year old daughter steals a purse at school and is caught. The good mother recognizes that something is wrong with this child’s understanding of what is right or wrong. The daughter’s experience of having to face the parents of the victim, the victim and her friends, the principal and teachers of her school is demonstrably painful for the thief. Although this good mother may choose to add some discipline, the experience that naturally occurs when light is shed on evil acts is sufficient to train this child to never do this again. This is how God’s laws of what is right and wrong [the golden rule] do the work of personal growth by means of natural consequences. God is the one who will show this child what is the better way as He continues to lovingly and mercifully nurture His child as she continues to grow. God is kind.
2:5.4 God is divinely kind to sinners. When rebels return to righteousness, they are mercifully received, “for our God will abundantly pardon.” “I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.” “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God.”
The woman caught in adultery.
Father understands ‘why’ we have done, and do, the things we choose to do. Although His cosmic laws are ever in place for our experiential learning, He in kind in His adjustments in our minds and hearts. This is why He gave us free will – as we learn from our mistakes – we grow. There is no unkindness, only love and understanding. He sends us on our way in life with His love. ~ Marin
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God is perfect.
The more we seek God – the more we pursue cohesion [sticking to] with God – the more we begin to think like Him and then to act like Him with loving service for our fellows. One who is truly loving can never inflict unloving harm upon another. In God’s perfectness we discover Him to be irresistible as we experience Him in personal worship daily. In Jesus we see God in physical actions of beauty as His love is unconditional and His ever wide arms open to receive even the lowliest of beings. God is perfect, and we CAN become more and more like Him with every passing day.
140:10.1 That evening while teaching in the house, for it had begun to rain, Jesus talked at great length, trying to show the twelve what they must be, not what they must do. They knew only a religion that imposed the doing of certain things as the means of attaining righteousness [613 Jewish laws to follow] — salvation [by conditional behaviors rather than faith]. But Jesus would reiterate, "In the kingdom you must be righteous in order to do the work." Many times did he repeat, "Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." All the while was the Master explaining to his bewildered apostles that the salvation which he had come to bring to the world was to be had only by believing, by simple and sincere faith. Said Jesus: "John preached a baptism of repentance, sorrow for the old way of living. You are to proclaim the baptism of fellowship with God. Preach repentance to those who stand in need of such teaching, but to those already seeking sincere entrance to the kingdom, open the doors wide and bid them enter into the joyous fellowship of the sons of God." But it was a difficult task to persuade these Galilean fishermen that, in the kingdom, being righteous, by faith, must precede doing righteousness in the daily life of the mortals of earth.
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In knowing God with His love and kindness I discover that I want to become more like Him – more like Jesus, who IS God. I feel this deep in my heart and this has changed my life. Patience, mercy and love. Yes. I want to be like that! ~ Marin
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God is mercy.
Mercy sets the guilt of evil-doing to one side; but love destroys forever the sin and all weakness resulting therefrom [188:5.2]. Our ‘feeling’ experiences of the presence of God reveal to us His loving kindness and mercy. Our logic then leads us to embrace rejection of any kind of false teachings whereby God is described as needing blood to be shed, works to be done for conditional acceptance or a fantasy-based place called Hell to be remotely considered. When we understand this love of God and His thorough understanding of us as His own created child it becomes easy to compassionately help our fellows. This is how we recognize that we are growing in His spiritual direction for we can witness ourselves growing in love, kindness and mercy for others. Yes! This is our litmus test. God is forever our goal in true religion, which is friendship with our Father within who is goodness and mercy.
4:4.7 In science, God is the First Cause; in religion [friendship with God], the universal and loving Father; in philosophy, the one being who exists by himself, not dependent on any other being for existence but beneficently conferring reality of existence [with free will] on all things and upon all other beings. But it requires revelation to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent Unity of philosophy ARE the God of religion, full of mercy and goodness and pledged to effect the eternal survival of his children on earth.
God is righteous and just.
It is righteous and just when God sees us through and through with complete understanding of our struggles and efforts to live a good life when confusion and chaos are all around us. He knows all of this and completely comprehends WHY we do the things we do. This righteous attitude of God transcends any need for punishment. Yes, He has no need to punish us. His just ways seek to work with us, from within and without, for progression and the possibility of even what could be GREAT.
2:4.2 And never is it necessary that any influence be brought to bear upon the Father to call forth his loving-kindness. The creature’s need is wholly sufficient to insure the full flow of the Father’s tender mercies and his saving grace. Since God knows all about his children, it is easy for him to forgive. The better man understands his neighbor, the easier it will be to forgive him, even to love him.
2:3.1 God is righteous; therefore is he just. “The Lord is righteous in all his ways.” “‘I have not done without cause all that I have done,’ says the Lord.” “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” The justice of the Universal Father cannot be influenced by the acts and performances of his creatures, “for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, no respect of persons [partiality], no taking of gifts.”
Because the Son of God came to us on His sapphire world we are now ready to grasp by faith alone the personalized expression of God – Jesus. This is the fundamental importance of knowing what our Master actually said and did. God shows us His righteousness in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, who is divine AND human.
4:3.7 The character of God is infinitely superhuman; therefore must such a nature of divinity be personalized, as in the divine Sons [our Jesus], before it can even be faith-grasped by the finite mind of man.
Jesus IS God.
The apostles had a difficult time understanding Jesus’ teachings.
138:5.2 When they had refreshed themselves, Jesus took the twelve apart for a season to pray with them and to instruct them in the nature and work of the Holy Spirit, but again did they largely fail to comprehend the meaning of those wonderful truths which he endeavored to teach them. One would grasp one point and one would comprehend another, but none of them could encompass the whole of his teaching. Always would they make the mistake of trying to fit Jesus' new gospel into their old forms of religious belief [Acceptance by God due to following certain Judaic laws]. They could not grasp the idea that Jesus had come to proclaim a new gospel of salvation and to establish a new way of finding God; they did not perceive that HE was a new revelation of the Father in heaven.
5:4.5 All religions teach the worship of Deity and some doctrine of human salvation. The Buddhist religion promises salvation from suffering, unending peace; the Jewish religion promises salvation from difficulties, prosperity predicated on righteousness; the Greek religion promised salvation from disharmony, ugliness, by the realization of beauty; Christianity promises salvation from sin, sanctity; Mohammedanism provides deliverance from the rigorous moral standards of Judaism and Christianity. The religion of Jesus [friendship with God] IS salvation from self, deliverance from the evils of creature isolation in time and in eternity.
Jesus knew full well the incredible difficulties of living life on earth [think global pandemics, nuclear wars, hunger, profit motive, slavery/human trafficking, degradation of woman etc...] He understood the varied doctrines [teachings, abstractions] of the world religions of His day. He saw the spiritual darkness and ignorance regarding the true character and nature of His Father, maligned by those seeking to control others with fear and shame. He witnessed and felt the sufferings of His children and sought to show them [and now us] the path to freedom from fear, isolation and evil. Is it any wonder that Jesus would choose to go to the cross in order to show us that He deeply understands the most intense pain and suffering that we too might experience, to any greater or lesser degree? Yes! THIS is the real reason that Jesus allowed Himself to be so tortured and abused unto death, even crucifixion.
Take a moment – ponder this fact!
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God is our Father.
God is a Father to each one of us, even our enemies.
5:4.15 In the study of the religious life of Jesus, view him positively. Think not so much of his sinlessness as of his righteousness, his loving service. Jesus up-stepped the passive love disclosed in the Hebrew concept of the heavenly Father to the higher active and creature-loving affection of a God who is the Father of every individual, even of the wrongdoer.
Father’s spirit is the same for everyone. This is spirit ‘unity’, not uniformity in that we are all different in thinking and protocols, but not different in ‘unity’ as we are all indwelt with the same spirit of God.
141:5.1 One of the most eventful of all the evening conferences at Amathus was the session having to do with the discussion of spiritual unity. James Zebedee had asked, "Master, how shall we learn to see alike and thereby enjoy more harmony among ourselves?" When Jesus heard this question, he was stirred within his spirit, so much so that he replied: "James, James, when did I teach you that you should all see alike? I have come into the world to proclaim spiritual liberty to the end that mortals may be empowered to live individual lives of originality and freedom before God. I do not desire that social harmony and fraternal peace shall be purchased by the sacrifice of free personality and spiritual originality. What I require of you, my apostles, is spirit unity — and that you can experience in the joy of your united dedication to the wholehearted doing of the will of my Father in heaven. You do not have to see alike or feel alike or even think alike in order spiritually to be alike. Spiritual unity is derived from the consciousness that each of you is indwelt, and increasingly dominated, by the spirit gift of the heavenly Father. Your apostolic harmony must grow out of the fact that the spirit hope of each of you is identical in origin, nature, and destiny.
It is our Father’s indwelling spirit that unifies us as One, and we will each express Him in our own and
separate lives. Do you see His beautiful plan?
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God loves YOU!
“The Father longs for every mortal to know that they are deeply cherished and watched over. Yes, that is simply the tip of the iceberg of the help I speak of. It requires an effort on your part to simply be open; to feel loved, and trust that you are guided. There is joy to be had; new possibilities to be envisioned; and always hope.” ~ Abraham
cherish : verb : to keep or cultivate with care and affection : to nurture
Jesus was a Jew. Yes. However, this is simply because He was born into a Jewish family and learned those traditions. Recognize what our Master is saying here...
145:2.4 "You well know that, while a kindhearted father loves his family as a whole, he so regards them as a group because of his strong affection for each individual member of that family. No longer must you approach the Father in heaven as a child of Israel but as a child of God. As a group, you are indeed the children of Israel, but as individuals, each one of you is a child of God. I have come, not to reveal the Father to the children of Israel, but rather to bring this knowledge of God and the revelation of his love and mercy to the individual believer as a genuine personal experience. The prophets have all taught you that Yahweh cares for his people, that God loves Israel. But I have come among you to proclaim a greater truth, one which many of the later prophets also grasped, that God loves you — every one of you — as individuals. All these generations have you had a national or racial religion; now have I come to give you a personal religion.” ~ Jesus
As a planetary population we will all come to realize the eternal goal for our world as ‘Light and Life’ where everyone, eventually, will live and love God as Jesus describes. But let us specifically comprehend that this happens ONE INDIVIDUAL AT A TIME! Therefore, what may be desired on the world’s stage in the aggregate begins as spiritual illumination by each and every one of us. THEN our world will discover God in His actual and true character and nature as the family of God and the FRIENDS OF JESUS. The God of eternity loves YOU!
147:3.3 In speaking to those assembled, Jesus said: "Many of you are here, sick and afflicted, because of your many years of wrong living. Some suffer from the accidents of time, others as a result of the mistakes of their forebears, while some of you struggle under the handicaps of the imperfect conditions of your temporal existence. But my Father works, and I would work, to improve your earthly state but more especially to insure your eternal estate. None of us can do much to change the difficulties of life unless we discover the Father in heaven so wills. After all, we are all beholden to do the will of the Eternal. If you could all be healed of your physical afflictions, you would indeed marvel, but it is even greater that you should be cleansed of all spiritual disease and find yourselves healed of all moral infirmities. You are all God's children; you are the sons of the heavenly Father. The bonds of time may seem to afflict you, but the God of eternity loves you. And when the time of judgment shall come, fear not, you shall all find, not only justice, but an abundance of mercy. Verily, verily, I say to you: He who hears the gospel of the kingdom and believes in this teaching of son-ship with God, has eternal life; already are such believers passing from judgment and death to light and life. And the hour is coming in which even those who are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the resurrection."
We may come to know things ABOUT God over time. What does this really DO for us? These are merely ‘facts’ ABOUT Him. One might read a profile ABOUT someone on a dating site, but would this mean that they really KNOW them? Not at all. What Jesus is saying is that He desires for us to comprehend and KNOW our Father in His true meaning as we become OF God and OF Jesus. We each have a spiritual career set before us and light and life is the goal in experiencing His LIVING TRUTH in our hearts and minds individually whereby God becomes dominant and transcendent in our own beings. This is the reason behind our name as ‘Friends OF Jesus’ and not just friends about Jesus. Do you see the difference? One is concept and theory while the latter is actual direct connection and friendship, relationship with God on a very personal level. And this grows and grows over time.
193:0.3 "And now you should give ear to my words lest you again make the mistake of hearing my teaching with the mind while in your hearts you fail to comprehend the meaning. From the beginning of my sojourn as one of you, I taught you that my one purpose was to reveal my Father in heaven to his children on earth. I have lived the God-revealing bestowal that you might experience the God-knowing career. I have revealed God as your Father in heaven; I have revealed you as the sons of God on earth. It is a fact that God loves you, his sons. By faith in my word this fact becomes an eternal and living truth in your hearts. When, by living faith, you become divinely God-conscious, you are then born of the spirit as children of light and life, even the eternal life wherewith you shall ascend the universe of universes and attain the experience of finding God the Father on Paradise.” ~ Jesus
When at first I heard of Jesus and God, His Father, my heart immediately opened up. As I thought about what I heard I was grateful that my sins had been ‘forgiven’ supposedly by the blood of Jesus shed on a cross which God desired, needed and required in order for me to be accepted. This was confusing. I understood that Jesus loved me – enough to be crucified. [Horrific!] This made me cry. But, “God loves you” I was told. God? Love? How is ordering Jesus, His beloved Son, to be tortured and nailed to a cross ‘LOVE’??? In fact, this made ME feel guilty because I was told it was my sin that nailed Him there. If God’s ‘love’ did this to His own Son then what might He do to me? This made me afraid of God. It was supposedly love that desired blood and death. Huh? Does this make sense to you? It did not to me. It was terrifying, horrific, ugly, evil and full of hate and vengeance. Maybe THIS IS GOD?! Eventually, I came out of this stupid stupor. The fact of Jesus’ crucifixion is not in doubt. The typical explanation and subsequent doctrines ARE! God ‘allowed’ this path for Jesus. He did not ‘order’ it. As we have said before, Jesus chose of His own volition to experience massive and intense pain and suffering so that He might fully feel, taste and drink the cup of human experience in our world, a world soon to come out of the terrible Lucifer rebellion. And this rebellion IS finally over. The time for correcting these false teachings [doctrines] about God is here and NOW. We are Friends OF Jesus because we are friends with God, who is loving, nurturing, understanding and GOOD. Clarify this for others. Help Them! Feed Them! Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” ~ Marin
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God knows all things
Although God seems to be hidden from us – He is not! He is simply SO incredibly spiritual, SO massively powerful and SO comprehensive in His awareness of all things in all places of time and space – WE are not spiritually ready to see Him in Paradise, face to face, as it were. However, we will be like this someday. I can’t wait! And so we begin our journey to Him in this life with His indwelling tendril of love securely placed within our hearts and minds as our guide and pilot. It is up to us how quickly we desire to grow. Things can go slow or fast.
3:3.3 His consciousness is universal. His personal circuit encompasses all personalities, and his knowledge of even the lowly creatures is supplemented indirectly through the descending series of divine Sons and directly through the indwelling Thought Adjusters. And furthermore, the Infinite Spirit [Who is ‘mind’] is all the time everywhere present.
Example: When a baby nurses from it’s mother they are about 9 inches from her face. Babies need a caring parent for healthy development. Without this they can become skewed and unhealthy in personality progress. This is our Father’s way. As this analogy is terrifically insufficient it is still the best representation of God’s relation to us – except that – our spiritual parent, our Father, is not 9 inches from our faces. He actually dwells within us! There is NO distance between us and Him except that distance that we choose to keep ourselves to ourselves with our will standing in opposition to His will. He respectfully accepts this and affords us our own free will choice. If you have ever longed for a truly good friend, a BEST friend, loyal and nurturing, He is living in your own heart and mind.
5:0.1 If the finite mind of man is unable to comprehend how so great and so majestic a God as the Universal Father can descend from his eternal abode in infinite perfection to fraternize [socialize, friendliness] with the individual human creature, then must such a finite intellect rest assurance of divine fellowship upon the truth of the fact that an actual fragment of the living God resides within the intellect of every normal-minded and morally conscious Urantia mortal. The indwelling Thought Adjusters are a part OF the eternal Deity of the Paradise Father. Man does not have to go farther than his own inner experience of the soul’s contemplation of this spiritual-reality presence to find God and attempt communion with him.
5:0.2 God has distributed the infinity of his eternal nature throughout the existential realities of his six absolute co-ordinates, but he may, at any time, make direct personal contact with any part or phase or kind of creation through the agency of his pre-personal fragments. And the eternal God has also reserved to himself the prerogative of bestowing personality upon the divine Creators and the living creatures of the universe of universes [US], while he has further reserved the prerogative of maintaining direct and parental contact with all these personal beings through the personality circuit.
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Until I embraced rejection of these false man-made descriptions [abstractions] of my loving Father I was too afraid of Him. I felt so isolated from such a perceived ‘God of wrath’. I could not discover God within until I chose to believe the truth of Him, by faith, and began to pursue Him, MY Father of love. Once I began to quietly, privately and personally seek Him within for who He really was did I begin to taste, feel and KNOW His presence. This has been life-changing. I discovered God as my patient and mind-expanding spiritual leader and teacher. I began to think differently. Old things passed away – fell away—and His new and emerging presence started to fill every niche in my thinking. I began to realize that He was making me ‘more’ than I ever thought I could be. Thoughts of insecurity, fear and doubt fell off to be replaced by an Assurance of who He truly is. And this has grown and grown over time. He will do this for you also. He is the same for me as He is for you. This is spiritual living. This is LIFE as a child who is God’s friend – so close. ~ Marin
God is not…
There exists a difference between the idea or thought of God on one hand, and the experience reality of Him on the other. Most people have an idea of the Lord as an abstraction, almost with very little inner personal communion or feeling-development (soul-development) with Him. It is the experiencing of God which develops the soul. It is reliant upon the mental capacity for understanding this experience. It is the humanizing of this experience, and the personalizing of this experience, which causes those spiritual forces to mobilize and cause spiritual growth for the individual.
There is no spiritual growth without thought – without the thinking, reasoning, wise understanding of the spiritual experience. At first this experience is limited and fleeting. Yet, if it is pursued wisely, sagaciously, this experience becomes, and makes, the individual become more and more real. As you realize your potential spiritual growth, this active transfer of purely spiritual (and with some, mental) energies causes the phenomenon of soul growth; and this soul becomes a morontia reality.
The soul becomes a morontia [more spiritual] reality while we are yet mortal. It is the combination of the material, mortal, mental process—with the purely spiritual input from the Father, the Thought Adjuster—that this combination produces a new reality. This is a life-long project for both parties involved. The mortal mind must grasp and understand the spiritual reality for it to be made real for that individual. It is a process of becoming who you really are; the process of realizing your mortal potential – which potential shall extend to the morontia worlds [life after this life], but it is begun on this world. Therefore, it is important that you receive and understand.
Spiritual realities. I have difficulty in trying to convey this because it is the only reality for me. For you who are in a much more limited state of perception, this is more of an 'idea' than a 'truth.'
This truth is as real to me as the chair you’re sitting in is to you. Yet to me, the physical material reality is such a limited place; it is so confined that the greater spiritual world is unrecognized by your limited [mortal] perception. Therefore, in order to perceive the spiritual reality of the world, one must see with spiritual eyes, perceiving the value, the beauty, the goodness – which goes beyond mere physical realities.
Sometimes it is difficult to expand the mind to the point of grasping the greater spiritual reality. Yet it is this grasping, this expansion, which is necessary in order to enfold and incorporate this greater reality into a personal experience – which causes spiritual growth and soul ascension. ~ Ham
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Current world religions define God by ‘abstractions’. Allow us to define Ham’s use of this word.
abstraction : noun
composition or creation having designs that do not represent actual objects
From its roots, abstraction should mean basically "something pulled or drawn away". So abstract art is composition or creation having designs that do not represent actual objects very well. Theories are often abstractions and are most likely lacking in full truth; so a theory about economics, for instance, may "pull back" to take a broad view that somehow explains all of economics (but maybe doesn't end up explaining any of it very successfully). An abstract of a medical or scientific article is a one-paragraph summary of its contents that is, the basic findings "pulled out" of the article. This most likely is an incomplete representation due to the lack of full explanation.
Synonyms: concept [an idea], conception, notion, thought or impression
Example of the difference between realism and abstraction.
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The showing of things An artistic composition or creation having
as they really are. designs that do not well represent actual objects.
The time come for us to comprehensively recognize WHO God truly is, not by abstraction, but by learning what everyone else is our universe understands Him to be. We on Urantia are just a bit behind all others. As stated previously; the Lucifer rebellion is recently over and rebels are ‘no more’. The true life and teachings of Jesus will bring everyone into this reality of God – Who IS Reality!
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God is more than nature or the universe personified
1:2.2 The eternal God is infinitely more than reality idealized or the universe personalized. God is not simply the supreme desire of man, the mortal quest objectified. Neither is God merely a concept, the power-potential of righteousness. The Universal Father is not a synonym for nature, neither is he natural law personified. God is a transcendent reality, not merely man's traditional concept of supreme values. God is not a psychological focalization of spiritual meanings, neither is he "the noblest work of man." God may be any or all of these concepts in the minds of men, but he is more. He is a saving Person and a loving Father to all who enjoy spiritual peace on earth, and who crave to experience personality survival in death.
God is not like me. He is not to be anthropomorphized [human qualities applied in the abstract]. God is far, far greater! We may struggle with things like anger, the lack of love or un-forgiveness, but our Father feels none of these things. God is jealous as in He is vigilant in guarding us. His desire for us is to become more and more like Him, to live and know Him as He is in His all-consuming adoring passion for us to KNOW Him as His beloved child. ~ Marin
4:3.1 All too long has man thought of God as one like himself. God is not, never was, and never will be jealous of man or any other being in the universe of universes. Knowing that the Creator Son [our Jesus] intended man to be the masterpiece of the planetary creation, to be the ruler of all the earth, the sight of his being dominated by his own baser passions, the spectacle of his bowing down before idols of wood, stone, gold, and selfish ambition — these sordid scenes stir God and his Sons to be jealous for man, but never of him.
God is a Person. Morality, social service, abstract beauty, sects of unity or the exaltation of nature is not ‘worship’. These things are not ‘persons’.
5:5.4 Moral conduct is always an antecedent [coming before] of evolved religion and a part of even revealed religion, but never the whole of religious experience. Social service is the result of moral thinking and religious living. Morality does not biologically lead to the higher spiritual levels of religious experience [friendship with God]. The adoration of the abstract beautiful is not the worship of God; neither is exaltation of nature nor the reverence of unity the worship of God.
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2:7.5 Philosophers commit their gravest error when they are misled into the fallacy of abstraction, the practice of focusing the attention upon one aspect of reality and then of pronouncing such an isolated aspect to be the whole truth. The wise philosopher will always look for the creative design which is behind, and pre-existent to, all universe phenomena. The creator thought invariably precedes creative action.
12:9.5 Your religion is becoming real because it is emerging from the slavery of fear and the bondage of superstition. Your philosophy struggles for emancipation from dogma and tradition. Your science is engaged in the age-long contest between truth and error while it fights for deliverance from the bondage of abstraction, the slavery of mathematics, and the relative blindness of mechanistic materialism.
102:7.3 Those who would invent a religion without God [as a unified Person] are like those who would gather fruit without trees, have children without parents. You cannot have effects without causes; only the I AM is causeless. The fact of religious experience implies God, and such a God of personal experience must be a personal Deity. You cannot pray to a chemical formula, supplicate a mathematical equation, worship a hypothesis, confide in a postulate, commune with a process, serve an abstraction, or hold loving fellowship with a law.
We worship God for Who He Is – a unified Person!
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God Discovered.
God is living love—emphasis on LIVING. He is real in His spiritual realm. He is spiritual reality! To ignore and subvert leads to nothingness. To embrace His friendship, to accept His goodness, to engage with His Personality is to become more than you are today. HE makes us more as our nurturing parent.
One does not have to be a member of a man-made world religion.
It is high time for man [females included in reference to ‘man’] to set aside these historically preconceived notions of God found in man-made abstractions of Him. His true character and nature reveal to us this life-giving Person who can be known and loved and love us in return discovered in authentic personal spiritual communal worship within. Enjoy and embrace your God Discovered!
4:3.2 The eternal God is incapable of wrath and anger in the sense of these human emotions [anthropomorphisms] and as man understands such reactions. These sentiments are mean and despicable; they are hardly worthy of being called human, much less divine; and such attitudes are utterly foreign to the perfect nature and gracious character of the Universal Father.
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It is no wonder why we have been so confused for such a long, long time [200K+ years]. We thank our Father and His Son that this horrible Lucifer rebellion is now OVER! The time has finally come whereby all of us, all of mankind can now comprehend in our minds who God truly is. We can now approach Him with NO fear, NO guilt and NO insecurities. Our minds can become clear and in childlike faith we can faith-grasp His loving goodness towards us by spiritual experience personally – direct personal contact from God to us.
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4:3.3 Much, very much, of the difficulty which Urantia mortals have in understanding God is due to the far-reaching consequences of the Lucifer rebellion and the Caligastia [deposed Earth planetary prince, now replaced by Machiventa Melchizedek] betrayal. On worlds not segregated by sin, the evolutionary races are able to formulate far better ideas of the Universal Father; they suffer less from confusion, distortion, and perversion of concept.
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We are the captains of our little mortal ship [our bodies] housing our indwelling Thought Adjusters, fragments of God Himself. As any good ship has it’s captain there is also a pilot who receives direction from this said captain. He respects our free will. Until we allow Him taking control of where and how our ship progresses He patiently waits. Yes! God is WAITING for YOU to tell Him, to allow Him the control providing the best of destinations – HIM! [greater communication with our Thought Adjusters today, eventual Paradise meeting face-to-face in our eternal life]
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4:3.4 God repents of nothing he has ever done, now does, or ever will do. He is all-wise as well as all-powerful. Man’s wisdom grows out of the trials and errors of human experience; God’s wisdom consists in the unqualified perfection of his infinite universe insight, and this divine foreknowledge effectively directs the creative free will.
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1:3.8 “I come forth from the Eternal [in Paradise], and I have repeatedly returned to the presence of the Universal Father. I know of the actuality and personality of the First Source and Center, the Eternal and Universal Father. I know that, while the great God is absolute, eternal, and infinite, he is also good, divine, and gracious. I know the truth of the great declarations: "God is spirit" and "God is love," and these two attributes are most completely revealed to the universe in the Eternal Son.”
~ a Divine Counselor hailing from Paradise [he came a long way to bring us this message]
Will a child run up to an adult, parent or otherwise, if they are afraid? Will they unreservedly rush to show their childish affections to a parent or adult of whom they know will shame them for being young and so small? Do children confide their deepest thoughts and feelings to someone who they already know does not care for them, does not show their love towards them? No. Sadly, they will not. On the contrary, it is easy to embrace, show affection and confide in one who is so loving, understanding and forgiving. This is the heart of God towards us. We are also new and young beings. God loves us!
2:5.7 I find it easy and pleasant to worship one who is so great and at the same time so affectionately devoted to the uplifting ministry of his lowly creatures. I naturally love one who is so powerful in creation and in the control thereof, and yet who is so perfect in goodness and so faithful in the loving-kindness which constantly overshadows us. I think I would love God just as much if he were not so great and powerful, as long as he is so good and merciful. We all love the Father more because of his nature than in recognition of his amazing attributes.
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God cannot ‘hate sin’ for sin is not a person. God loves the person who makes mistakes while He knows that we are learning by experience what is right and wrong in His created universes via free will.
2:6.8 God loves the sinner and hates the sin: such a statement is true philosophically, but God is a transcendent personality, and persons can only love and hate other persons. Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he is a personality reality (potentially eternal), while towards sin God strikes no personal attitude, for sin is not a spiritual reality; it is not personal; therefore does only the justice of God take cognizance of its existence. The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin. This attitude of the divine nature would apparently change if the sinner finally identified himself wholly with sin [habitual opposition to what God wants] just as the same mortal mind may also fully identify itself with the indwelling spirit Adjuster. Such a sin-identified mortal would then become wholly unspiritual in nature (and therefore personally unreal) and would experience eventual extinction of being [no painful end, just a cessation of existence]. Unreality, even incompleteness of creature nature, cannot exist forever in a progressingly real and increasingly spiritual universe.
Past records of God are untrustworthy.
God has been working in humans for eons! He has never stopped and will never cease His never-ending spiritual work within us.
“Revelation to the mind engages provocative thought in spiritual channels in many unexpected ways [creating ‘beauty’ within us]. This is an experiential commitment to divinity of thought and is rewarded by a deepening feeling and understanding of the presence of the Father. Deepening devotion of thought is required in order to progress spiritually in a material world. You must train and discipline your mind. Throughout history people have had inspiring thoughts that have been recorded in word or deed. This isn’t something magical or mystifying, it is something that comes from the divine spirit within that should be shared with others.” ~ unknown Celestial Teacher 2.20.2025
4:5.1 Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of the God-knowing men of past ages, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Such ancient beliefs have been invariably altered by the fact that primitive man was a mythmaker. [However, some did actually ‘know’ God]
Placing anyone before God Himself in priority [EVEN celestial teachings/messages] limits His potential power in our lives. Simply said: No one should replace His primary focus in our thinking or pursuit if we want the highest and best outcomes for our living. Concept/theory ABOUT God [teachings/lessons] without actually attaining Him in our minds avails little for us. God is a PERSON and no one can replace Him. [pursuing ‘messages’ from our celestial helpers more than pursuing God Himself is in opposition to those very ‘messages’ we may receive, and then share with others]
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4:5.2 One of the greatest sources of confusion on Urantia concerning the nature of God grows out of the failure of your sacred books clearly to distinguish between the personalities of the Paradise Trinity and between Paradise Deity and the local universe creators and administrators. During the past dispensations of partial understanding, your priests and prophets failed clearly to differentiate between Planetary Princes, System Sovereigns, Constellation Fathers, Creator Sons, Superuniverse Rulers, the Supreme Being, and the Universal Father. Many of the messages of subordinate personalities, such as Life Carriers and various orders of angels, have been, in your records, presented as coming from God himself. Urantian religious thought still confuses the associate personalities of Deity with the Universal Father himself, so that all are included under one appellation. [This confusion is currently being corrected as we can now better ascertain between God Himself, who is to be worshiped and attained within us juxtaposed those who WORK FOR God and His Son, Michael, who is our universe Sovereign and also our Master Creator Son, Jesus.]
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4:5.3 The people of Urantia continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood — these are the gods of primitive religion; they are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims of such imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that he lives in a realm of comparative law and order as far as concerns the administrative policies and conduct of the Supreme Creators and the Supreme Controllers.
4:5.5 The Hebrews believed that “without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin.” They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted therefor, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals.
Jesus did not come to our world as a ‘sacrifice’ to redeem mankind back to God. God has never needed to buy back, win back, free us from any captivity or to release us from blame or debt to Him by way of blood shed and death. His love does not work like that. Our fore-fathers and fore-mothers believed that there needed to be some kind of sacrificial blood atonement for their mistakes. God has NEVER required this because His love for His children has always been free, full, complete and ready to satisfy all of our real needs simply because He loves us and asks of us only our faith.
4:5.6 The bestowal of a Paradise Son [Jesus] on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a travesty upon the infinite character of God! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary!
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THE TIME IS RIPE for Jesus to be resurrected from the tomb of erroneous tradition and dogma. His life and teachings will bring our world into Light and Life – one individual at a time. Consider the real meaning of WHY Jesus chose go to Jerusalem, submit to arrest and illegal midnight trials, tortured and crucified on a cross? He did not do this in order to rescue, deliver, ransom, reclaim or save anyone. No! He did this so that He could fully comprehend and experience the pain and suffering as He ‘drank the cup to full’ of the human experience. As a result, we have a Master who completely understands OUR pain and suffering on this world full of chaos and confusion.
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Welcome to His truth. Welcome to change!
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4:5.7 But the inhabitants of Urantia are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The revelation of the truth about God is appearing, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God.
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As a Christian pastor I was deeply embedded in the ‘system’ of this world religion with it’s fundamentals taken from the olden Judaic beliefs applied to Jesus by Paul, the great corrupter of what our Master really taught and how He so perfectly lived His life among us. [Part 4 of The Urantia Book] Once I recognized these false teachings it was easy, pleasant and thrillingto begin to relate to my Father as He truly is. My fear of Him fell away, my superstitions vanished, my freedom from doubts were replaced by an ASSURANCE of His love, kindness and eagerness to meet with me, personally, any time I chose to seek Him in the practice of stillness and attainment in direct contact in my own heart and mind. He has become DOMINANT and TRANSCENDENT as He has lifted my thoughts into those thoughts that He wants me to have – more like Him. He provides the spiritual energy, the impetus for loving service to my fellows and fuels me by His enduring peace. ~ Marin
103:2.1 Religion [friendship with God] is functional in the human mind and has been realized in experience prior to its appearance in human consciousness. A child has been in existence about nine months before it experiences birth. But the “birth” of religion [friendship with God] is not sudden; it is rather a gradual emergence. Nevertheless, sooner or later there is a “birth day.” You do not enter the kingdom of heaven unless you have been “born again” ~ Jesus — born of the Spirit.
Being born of the Spirit is a private matter that was experienced firsthand by the human and divine Jesus when he initiated his quest to connect with the “Father in him.” For human beings, it marks the onset of eternal life. However, our instructions reveal that God who indwells us MUST become dominant and control every part of our lives.
141:6.4 That night Jesus discoursed to the apostles on the new life in the kingdom. He said in part: “When you enter the kingdom, you are reborn. You cannot teach the deep things of the spirit to those who have been born only of the flesh; first see that men are born of the spirit before you seek to instruct them in the advanced ways of the spirit. Do not undertake to show men the beauties of the temple until you have first taken them into the temple [their human hearts and minds where God dwells]. Introduce men to God and as the sons of God before you discourse on the doctrines [teachings] of the fatherhood of God and the sonship of men. Do not strive with men — always be patient. It is not your kingdom; you are only ambassadors. Simply go forth proclaiming: This is the kingdom of heaven — God is your Father and you are his sons, and this good news, if you wholeheartedly believe it, is your eternal salvation.” ~ Jesus [the term ‘sons’ includes women]
The myth of God’s Wrath
142:2.1- 4 There was in Jerusalem in attendance upon the Passover festivities one Jacob, a wealthy Jewish trader from Crete, and he came to Andrew making request to see Jesus privately. Andrew arranged this secret meeting with Jesus at Flavius’s home the evening of the next day. This man could not comprehend the Master’s teachings, and he came because he desired to inquire more fully about the kingdom of God. Said Jacob to Jesus: “But, Rabbi, Moses and the olden prophets tell us that Yahweh is a jealous God, a God of great wrath and fierce anger. The prophets say he hates evildoers and takes vengeance on those who obey not his law. You and your disciples teach us that God is a kind and compassionate Father who so loves all men that he would welcome them into this new kingdom of heaven, which you proclaim is so near at hand [available to all].”
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When Jacob finished speaking, Jesus replied: “Jacob, you have well stated the teachings of the olden prophets who taught the children of their generation in accordance with the light of their day. Our Father in Paradise is changeless. But the concept of his nature has enlarged and grown from the days of Moses down through the times of Amos and even to the generation of the prophet Isaiah. And now have I come in the flesh to reveal the Father in new glory and to show forth his love and mercy to all men on all worlds. As the gospel of this kingdom shall spread over the world with its message of good cheer and good will to all men, there will grow up improved and better relations among the families of all nations. As time passes, fathers and their children will love each other more, and thus will be brought about a better understanding of the love of the Father in heaven for his children on earth. Remember, Jacob, that a good and true father not only loves his family as a whole — as a family — but he also truly loves and affectionately cares for each individual member.”
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After considerable discussion of the heavenly Father’s character, Jesus paused to say: “You, Jacob, being a father of many, know well the truth of my words.” And Jacob said: “But, Master, who told you I was the father of six children? How did you know this about me?” And the Master replied: “Suffice it to say that the Father and the Son know all things, for indeed they see all. Loving your children as a father on earth, you must now accept as a reality the love of the heavenly Father for you — not just for all the children of Abraham, but for you, your individual soul.” Then Jesus went on to say...
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What is God?
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Touching upon this previously, we restate that He is our loving FATHER. God is the original good parent of all personalities everywhere in His vast domain.
4:4.5 “First and last — eternally — the infinite God is a Father. Of all the possible titles by which he might appropriately be known, I have been instructed to portray the God of all creation as the Universal Father.“~ our Divine Counselor hailing from Paradise
2:5.10 But the love of God [verb, His action towards us] is an intelligent and farseeing parental affection. The divine love functions in unified association with divine wisdom and all other infinite characteristics of the perfect nature of the Universal Father. God is love, but love is not God. The greatest manifestation [evidence] of the divine love for mortal beings is observed in the bestowal of the Thought Adjusters, but your greatest revelation [disclosure in human example] of the Father's love is seen in the bestowal life of his Son Michael as he lived on earth the ideal spiritual life. It is the indwelling Adjuster who individualizes the love of God to each human soul.
Yes. God is love [noun, a person, love Personified], but love [verb, the action of the emotion called ‘love’] is not God. God is a Person who loves and IS love [noun and verb]. This is the original definition. However, the definition of love as a human emotion, an action verb, is different. Love as an emotion is not God as love personified. Although it is God-like to actively love another fellow, we yet discover that one is a noun and the latter is a verb. Do you see this difference?
2:6.4 The concept of God as a king-judge, although it fostered a high moral standard and created a law-respecting people as a group, left the individual believer in a sad position of insecurity respecting his status in time and in eternity. The later Hebrew prophets proclaimed God to be a Father to Israel; Jesus revealed God as the Father of each human being. The entire mortal concept of God is transcendently illuminated by the life of Jesus. Selflessness is inherent in parental love. God loves not like a father, but as a father. He is the Paradise Father of every universe personality.
This is where the ‘chosen people’ concept came from and it then morphed over into Christianity whereby Paul applied this olden Jewish concept to his personally invented religion he named Christianity, as he used Jesus’ name, the Christ, as his [Paul’s] personally devised teachings. Paul and Jesus do not teach the same things! In studying what our Master really said we can see that Jesus actually did not teach the ‘chosen people’ theory as Paul taught it. However, Paul presents this as if it came from Jesus. Christians today have a hard time embracing the fact that belonging to a church or social group is not ‘salvation’ or ‘spiritual’. It is merely social. Jesus’ revelation—Jesus’ True Religion is one that shows us that ALL people are ‘chosen’ by God in that each person has a Thought Adjuster that has chosen them, to incarcerate Himself within them, on an individual basis. This is not achieved corporately, although we should share His love and our experiences with Him, as individuals, in the group. Yes.
Father is the Creator of each of our ‘personalities’. This is WHAT He does.
Have you ever wondered where YOUR personality came from? Have you ever pondered what ‘personality’ really is? Personality is not mind, body or soul. It is YOU – totally unique and special. No one anywhere is like you because YOUR personality came from God in Paradise, as did your indwelling Thought Adjuster. And this glorious and divine romance is all about God in Paradise bringing you home to Him by way of your ‘pilot’ – your pre-personal Thought Adjuster. At the point of fusion [we will soon discuss this] you will become one with Him. He takes upon Himself your unique and adoring personality that He gave to you and you take on His divine spirit. This will signify your absolute commitment to Him for all eternity.
5:6.1 The Universal Father is the God of personalities. The domain of universe personality, from the lowest mortal and material creature of personality status [US] to the highest persons of creator dignity and divine status, has its center and circumference in the Universal Father. God the Father is the bestower and the conservator of every personality.
0:5.11 Personality. The personality of mortal man is neither body, mind, nor spirit; neither is it the soul. Personality is the one changeless reality in an otherwise ever-changing creature experience; and it unifies all other associated factors of individuality. The personality is the unique bestowal which the Universal Father makes upon the living and associated energies of matter, mind, and spirit, and which survives with the survival of the morontial soul.
The soul’s demonstration of existence
112:7.9 Has the triumphant Adjuster won personality by the magnificent service to humanity, or has the valiant human acquired immortality through sincere efforts [persistence] to achieve Adjusterlikeness? It is neither; but they together have achieved the evolution of a member of one of the unique orders of the ascending personalities of the Supreme, one who will ever be found serviceable, faithful, and efficient, a candidate for further growth and development, ever ranging upward and never ceasing the supernal ascent until the seven circuits of Havona [Paradise area] have been traversed and the onetime soul of earthly origin stands in worshipful recognition of the actual Personality of the Father on Paradise.
What do you want? What are you waiting for?
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WHEN IS GOD?
WHEN IS GOD is an enormous topic, for God is working at all times, in all ways—everywhere! Our original great Source and Center of all things and beings abides in Paradise now and is upholding everything ever that He created. He lovingly controls all material things in His universes. Without our Powerful God no thing could continue to exist. And He does all of this and His heart of love reaches out in order to continue to create beauty in His cosmology – the interaction, interplay between our Creator and His creatures and creations. God is constantly present. He exists, lives and loves in all places at the same time. He will be present in our future one minute from now or 50 years from now. God is ALWAYS!
There are no records.
Because God is our original and infinite Creator there is no archive of His actions back in eternity. No created being was there. However, we do know this from the third person of the Trinity...
8:1.9 In brief, the Infinite Spirit testifies that, since he is eternal, so also is the central universe eternal. And this is the traditional starting point of the history of the universe of universes. Absolutely nothing is known, and no records are in existence, regarding any event or transaction prior to this stupendous eruption of creative energy and administrative wisdom that crystallized the vast universe which exists, and so exquisitely functions, at the center of all things. Beyond this event lie the unsearchable transactions of eternity and the depths of infinity — absolute mystery.
As finite humans, our minds can only comprehend things in sequential order. We live in time and space, so we cannot well fathom realities like eternity and infinity. However, I think we score some spiritual points when we TRY to understand God and His actions. We should continue to try our best.
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So, here we go!
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105:1.3 The I AM is the Infinite; the I AM is also infinity. From the sequential, time viewpoint, all reality has its origin in the infinite I AM, whose solitary existence in past infinite eternity must be a finite creature's premier philosophic postulate [simply stated, God was originally alone until He emerged the Son and then the Spirit which created the Trinity]. The concept of the I AM connotes unqualified infinity, the undifferentiated [no other created beings of His chosen differentials] reality of all that could ever be in all of an infinite eternity.
Remember: God is original EVERYTHING! Just as He creatively emerged the Trinity, He did not – has not stopped—creating multitudinous other orders of beings. We, on Urantia, have been in such a state of spiritual poverty and ignorance that we must now discipline our minds to open it up and enlarge our capacities for recognition, comprehension and understanding of these facts. They seem new to us only because of the ignorance we have enjoyed for so long. The rest of the universe not caught in the Lucifer rebellion know all about these other orders of beings. From Angels to Midwayers to Celestial Overseers and Teachers to Paradise Sons to Planetary Princes and many, many more the list goes on and on revealing the incredible creative powers of our God to share His glorious cosmos with His other creations. But I digress. We are discussing when God is.
Example: Hold up a pencil and think of it like a timeline. The point of the graphite of the pencil has that as an endpoint. The eraser at the end is another. Imagine this as time and space. Pretend you are God, who is in eternity, infinity—in no time or space, looking around this timeline. He can see the end to the end of what might be happening on that continuum, but He sees more. Recognizing all of the area around the pencil would be to imagine what eternity and infinity are. These are outside of the timeline. We can only see what is in the timeline of time or space for we are finite. He is in this timeline, but He is also outside of it. This is a rather sorry analogy, apologies! But it is quite difficult for us in any way to fathom this eternal aspect of God. In any event, it has helped us, so we share it.
3:1.7 The Universal Controller is potentially present in the gravity circuits of the Isle of Paradise in all parts of the universe at all times and in the same degree, in accordance with the mass, in response to the physical demands for this presence, and because of the inherent nature of all creation which causes all things to adhere [cohere] and consist in him. Likewise is the First Source and Center potentially present in the Unqualified Absolute, the repository of the uncreated universes of the eternal future. God thus potentially pervades the physical universes of the past, present, and future. He is the primordial foundation of the coherence [binding together] of the so-called material creation.
God, obviously, knows what He has done and is doing now. However, He is fully aware of His plans for future developments as time and space are continuing to enlarge. His power is completely sufficient to expand His universes that are, even now, being created in our outer space zones.
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4:1.6 The Universal Father has not withdrawn from the management of the universes; he is not an inactive Deity. If God should retire as the present upholder of all creation, there would immediately occur a universal collapse. Except for God, there would be no such thing as reality. At this very moment, as during the remote ages of the past and in the eternal future, God continues to uphold. The divine reach extends around the circle of eternity. The universe is not wound up like a clock to run just so long and then cease to function; all things are constantly being renewed. The Father unceasingly pours forth energy, light, and life. The work of God is literal [absolute, nonfictional] as well as spiritual. "He stretches out the north over the empty space and hangs the earth upon nothing."
In finite-ness, God the Supreme is our God of action. Our Father is love and mercy. His Supreme being is our God who is looking for our cohesion with God in terms of our actions of loving worship for and service to others coming out of our Godlikeness – our free choice-desires to also create His beauty in our lives that pour forth His love to others. When we do this our Supreme actually grows and His future will be spiritually amazing for everyone, everywhere. He will bring all of us into perfection, together, at the same time in the future as Light and Life. This is what He is looking for. Our spiritual attainment contributes to Him in time and space.
117:6.16 It is not only man's own limitations which prevent him from finding the finite God; it is also the incompletion of the universe; even the incompletion of all creatures — past, present, and future — makes the Supreme inaccessible. God the Father can be found by any individual who has attained the divine level of Godlikeness, but God the Supreme will never be personally discovered by any one creature until that far-distant time when, through the universal attainment of perfection, all creatures will simultaneously find him.
“I come, then, to worship, not merely the God of existences, but the God of the possibility of all future existences. Therefore must your devotion to a supreme ideal, if that ideal is real, be devotion to this God of past, present, and future universes of things and beings. And there is no other God, for there cannot possibly be any other God. All other gods are figments of the imagination, illusions of mortal mind, distortions of false logic, and the self-deceptive idols of those who create them. Yes, you can have a religion without this God, but it does not mean anything. And if you seek to substitute the word God for the reality of this ideal of the living God, you have only deluded yourself by putting an idea in the place of an ideal, a divine reality. Such beliefs are merely religions of wishful fancy.” ~ Rodan 160:5.9
WHERE IS GOD?
God lives in Paradise.
3:5.4 Said Jesus: “My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.” As you glimpse the manifold workings and view the staggering immensity of God’s well-nigh limitless creation, you may falter in your concept of his primacy, but you should not fail to accept him as securely and everlastingly enthroned at the Paradise center of all things and as the beneficent Father of all intelligent beings. There is but “one God and Father of all, who is above all and in all,” “and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.”
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God is everywhere.
Where is the end of space? We cannot tell! Where is the end of time? No one knows but the Cause and Creator of both. Even if we could know these things it would still be insufficient to comprehend all that He is. So much of Himself—His knowledge, His power and His everywhereness brings us into His reality. Thinking upon these things helps us to discover a more realistic perspective of our smallness, our newness as His young beings. This keeps us in a grateful, humble and child-like mindset. He is SO VAST and incomprehensible and yet His love is SO MASSIVE that He chooses to place a tiny tendril of His own being into our little minds. And with Him within us “all things become possible” as we apply our faith AND trust in His goodness for our own lives.
3:1.2 “‘I am a God at hand [available] as well as afar off,’ says the Lord. ‘Do not I fill heaven and earth?’” The Universal Father is all the time present in all parts and in all hearts of his far-flung creation. He is “the fullness of him who fills all and in all,” and “who works all in all,” and further, the concept of his personality is such that “the heaven (universe) and heaven of heavens (universe of universes, the Central Universe of His abode) cannot contain him.” It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of God. The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. God is revealed throughout the cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass the entirety of the infinity of God.
3:1.3 The Father’s presence unceasingly patrols the master universe. “His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it; and there is nothing hidden from the light thereof.”
Our closest friend.
3:1.4 The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. “We know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man’s inseparable companion.” “He is the ever-present and all-pervading God.” “The spirit of the everlasting Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child.” “Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart.” “The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us.” “The Father lives in the child. God is always with us. He is the guiding spirit of eternal destiny.”
