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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.
*** 3. MINISTRY OF THE
FATHER'S LOVE 6:3.1 The Son shares the
justice and righteousness of the Trinity but overshadows these divinity
traits by the infinite personalization of the Father's love and mercy; the
Son is the revelation of divine love to the universes. As God is love, so the
Son is mercy. The Son cannot love more than the Father, but he can show mercy
to creatures in one additional way, for he not only is a primal creator like
the Father, but he is also the Eternal Son of that same Father, thereby
sharing in the sonship experience of all other sons
of the Universal Father. 6:3.2 The Eternal Son is
the great mercy minister to all creation. Mercy is the essence of the Son's
spiritual character. The mandates of the Eternal Son, as they go forth over
the spirit circuits of the Second Source and Center, are keyed in tones of
mercy. 6:3.3 To comprehend the
love of the Eternal Son, you must first perceive its divine source, the
Father, who is love, and then behold the unfolding of this infinite affection
in the far-flung ministry of the Infinite Spirit and his almost limitless
host of ministering personalities. 6:3.4 The ministry of the
Eternal Son is devoted to the revelation of the God of love to the universe
of universes. This divine Son is not engaged in the ignoble task of trying to
persuade his gracious Father to love his lowly creatures and to show mercy to
the wrongdoers of time. How wrong to envisage the Eternal Son as appealing to
the Universal Father to show mercy to his lowly creatures on the material
worlds of space! Such concepts of God are crude and grotesque. Rather should
you realize that all the merciful ministrations of the Sons of God are a
direct revelation of the Father's heart of universal love and infinite compassion. The Father's love is the real and eternal
source of the Son's mercy. 6:3.5 God is love, the
Son is mercy. Mercy is applied love, the Father's love in action in the
person of his Eternal Son. The love of this universal Son is likewise
universal. As love is comprehended on a sex planet, the love of God is more comparable
to the love of a father, while the love of the Eternal Son is more like the
affection of a mother. Crude, indeed, are such illustrations, but I employ
them in the hope of conveying to the human mind the thought that there is a
difference, not in divine content but in quality and technique of expression,
between the love of the Father and the love of the Son. REFERENCE: The Urantia Book, Paper 6, Section 6:3.1 - 3.5 |
