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GOD’S
RELATION TO THE INDIVIDUAL THE
ETERNAL |
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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In the previous Interim-Papers we have
reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the Paradise Universal Father,
the PRAYER SUPPLICATIONS to the realms of the Paradise Eternal Son and His
Spirit of Truth, and qualified PRAYER REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of
the Holy Spirit, the Mind of the Paradise Conjoint Actor. The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
*** 6:0.1 THE Eternal Son
is the perfect and final expression of the "first" personal and
absolute concept of the Universal Father. Accordingly, whenever and however
the Father personally and absolutely expresses himself, he does so through
his Eternal Son, who ever has been, now is, and ever will be, the living and
divine Word. And this Eternal Son is residential at the center of all things,
in association with, and immediately enshrouding the personal presence of,
the Eternal and Universal Father. 6:0.2 We speak of
God's "first" thought and allude to an impossible time origin of
the Eternal Son for the purpose of gaining access to the thought channels of
the human intellect. Such distortions of language represent our best efforts
at contact-compromise with the time-bound minds of mortal creatures. In the
sequential sense the Universal Father never could have had a first thought,
nor could the Eternal Son ever have had a beginning. But I was instructed to
portray the realities of eternity to the time-limited minds of mortals by
such symbols of thought and to designate the relationships of eternity by
such time concepts of sequentiality. 6:0.3 The Eternal Son
is the spiritual personalization of the 6:0.4 In an effort to
enable the finite mind of time to form some sequential concept of the
relationships of the eternal and infinite beings of the Paradise Trinity, we
utilize such license of conception as to refer to the "Father's first
personal, universal, and infinite concept." It is impossible for me to
convey to the human mind any adequate idea of the eternal relations of the
Deities; therefore do I employ such terms as will afford the finite mind
something of an idea of the relationship of these eternal beings in the
subsequent eras of time. We believe the Son sprang from the Father; we are
taught that both are unqualifiedly eternal. It is apparent, therefore, that
no time creature can ever fully comprehend this mystery of a Son who is
derived from the Father, and yet who is co-ordinately
eternal with the Father himself. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 6, Section 6:0.1-0.4 |
