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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.
*** 2. NATURE OF THE
ETERNAL 6:2.1 The Eternal Son is
just as changeless and infinitely dependable as the Universal Father. He is
also just as spiritual as the Father, just as truly an unlimited spirit. To
you of lowly origin the Son would appear to be more personal since he is one
step nearer you in approachability than is the Universal Father. 6:2.2 The Eternal Son is
the eternal Word of God. He is wholly like the Father; in fact, the Eternal
Son is God the Father personally manifest to the universe of universes. And
thus it was and is and forever will be true of the Eternal Son and of all the
co-ordinate Creator Sons: "He who has seen the Son has seen the
Father." 6:2.3 In nature the Son
is wholly like the spirit Father. When we worship the Universal Father,
actually we at the same time worship God the Son and God the Spirit. God the
Son is just as divinely real and eternal in nature as God the Father. 6:2.4 The Son not only possesses
all the Father's infinite and transcendent
righteousness, but the Son is also reflective of all the Father's holiness of
character. The Son shares the Father's perfection and jointly shares the
responsibility of aiding all creatures of imperfection in their spiritual
efforts to attain divine perfection. 6:2.5 The Eternal Son
possesses all the Father's character of divinity and
attributes of spirituality. The Son is the fullness of God's absoluteness in
personality and spirit, and these qualities the Son reveals in his personal
management of the spiritual government of the universe of universes. 6:2.6 God is, indeed, a
universal spirit; God is spirit; and this spirit nature of the Father is
focalized and personalized in the Deity of the Eternal Son. In the Son all
spiritual characteristics are apparently greatly enhanced by differentiation
from the universality of the First Source and Center. And as the Father
shares his spirit nature with the Son, so do they together just as fully and
unreservedly share the divine spirit with the Conjoint Actor, the Infinite
Spirit. 6:2.7 In the love of
truth and in the creation of beauty the Father and the Son are equal except
that the Son appears to devote himself more to the realization of the
exclusively spiritual beauty of universal values. 6:2.8 In divine goodness
I discern no difference between the Father and the Son. The Father loves his
universe children as a father; the Eternal Son looks upon all creatures both
as father and as brother. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 6, Section 6:2.1 - 2.8 |
