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THE ABSOLUTENESS
OF GOD Part II-The Omnipotence |
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Paper XI |
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In the Interim-Papers VIII and
IX we have reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the PRAYER SUPPLICATIONS to the
realms of the Son and qualified PRAYER
REALIZATIONS by the spirit agencies of the Spirit, the Mind of the
The several following
Interim-Papers will be devoted to enlightenment about the true
nature of God. *** THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD- God’s
Omnipotence All the universes know that- “The Lord God omnipotent
reigns”. “There is no power but the
power of God”. “He does according to His will
in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth”. “With God all things are
possible”. The long-drawn-out
evolutionary processes of peoples, planets, and universes are under the
perfect control of the universe creators and administrators and unfold in
accordance with the eternal purpose of the Universal Father,
proceeding in harmony and order and in keeping with the all-wise plan
of God. Of all the divine attributes,
His OMNIPOTENCE (infinite power), especially as it prevails in
the material universe, is the best understood. He is only one LAWGIVER
and He upholds the worlds in space and swings the
universes around the endless circle of the eternal circuit. Viewed as the material
(non-spiritual) phenomenon, God is energy. This declaration of physical
fact is predicated on the incomprehensible truth that
the First Source and Center is the primal cause of the universal
physical phenomena of space and from His divine activity all
physical energy and other material manifestations are derived. God controls all power and He
has ordained the circuits of all energy manifestations. God has decreed the time and
manner of the manifestations of all forms of energy-matter held by
His grasp of gravitational control centering on nether God thus swing on forever
around the center of all things and
beings. The omnipotence of the Father
pertains to the everywhere dominance of the absolute
level, whereon the three energies- spiritual, mindal and
material, are not separable to Him as the First Creator and Source of
all things. God is eternal so he reacts to
the affairs of the universe in accordance with the dictates
of His eternal wisdom and in consonance with the mandates
of His infinite judgment. Human
misunderstanding of God is due to man’s profound ignorance
regarding the higher laws of the realms, the magnitude of
the Father’s character, the infinity of His attributes, and the fact
of His free-willness. Creature mind, being neither (monota) nor Universal Father, but man’s
mind of imperfection is continuously adjusted toward “God’s divine virtues” through His I
AM spirit fragment- the man’s indwelling
Thought Adjuster. Planetary creatures of God’s
spirit indwelling are scattered throughout the universes of
space and are infinite in number and order. Creature intellects
are so diverse and their minds and visions are often so
localized and limited, that is almost impossible to formulate
generalizations of law adequately expressive of the Father’s
infinite attributes to be at the same time comprehensible to any
significant degree to planetary created intelligences.
Therefore, to many creatures, many of the acts of the all-powerful
Creator seem to be so arbitrary, detached, and not infrequently
felt by humans as heartless and cruel, but humans can be
assured that this is not true nature of God. God’s doings are all
purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind and eternally considerate of the
best good, which may not be always the best for an
individual being, individual race, individual planet or even
individual universe; but they are always the best collective
good for the welfare of all concerned, from the lowest to the
highest. In the epoch or segment of
time the welfare of the part of God’s universe organization may
sometime appear to differ from the welfare of the whole, but be
assured that, from the prospect of the eternal circle of God’s I
AM being, such differences are non-existent. Many of the acts
of God which so confuse and disturb man, are the result of
the decisions and final rulings of all-wisdom, empowering the
Conjoint Actor of the 3rd Source and
Center to execute the choosing of the infallible will of the infinite mind, to
enforce the decisions of the personality of perfection,
whose survey, vision, and solicitude embrace the highest and
eternal welfare of all His vast and far-flung creation. We are all a part of the
family of God, and we must therefore all share in the family
discipline. It is that human detached,
sectional, finite, gross, and highly materialistic viewpoint and
the limitations inherent in the nature of human being, constitute
such a handicap that humans are unable to see, comprehend, or know
the wisdom and kindness of many of divine acts which sometimes
seem so fraught with crushing cruelty or utter indifference to human
comfort, welfare, personal prosperity and planetary happiness. Due
to limited creature vision, understanding, and finite
comprehension many motives, acts and purposes of God are perverted
by humans. Also, many things occurring on the evolutionary
worlds are not personal doings of the Universal Father. The divine omnipotence is perfectly
coordinated with the other attributes of the personality
of God and His power is, ordinarily, only limited in its universe
spiritual manifestations by the three conditions and situations: 1. The NATURE of God, His
infinite love for truth, beauty and goodness. 2. The WILL of God, His mercy
ministry and fatherly relationship with the personalities of the universe. 3. The LAW of God, the righteousness and justice of the
eternal God is unlimited in power,
divine in nature, final in will, infinite in attributes, eternal in wisdom,
absolute in reality, and all these characteristics
of the Universal Father are unified in aspect-
the Godheads, and so universally expressed in the Trinity
and their Outside of pertaining
to God is limited by the evolutionary presence of the Supreme
God- the evolving oversoul and God of the evolutionary universes
of time and space, conditioned by the eventuating presence
of the Ultimate God- the transcending oversoul and God of
the transcending time-space and non-time/non-space realms, and coordinated
by the three existential (Trinity
spirit active “Father” Godheads), the Universal God (Universal
I AM ), and the Unqualified ( Almighty “Matter” nether
“And so is such will of God to
manifest His presence” References: The Urantia book; Paper 3, Section 2 (edit, modif.), The Urantia Foundation |
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