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GOD’S RELATION TO
THE UNIVERSE The erroneous ideas about the
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Paper
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In the previous Interim-
Papers we have reviewed the meanings of the TRUE WORSHIP of the agencies of the Holy Spirit,
the Mind of the The following Interim-Paper is
devoted to further enlightenment about the true nature of God.
***** 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 the
Urantia’s primitive man was a mythmaker. One of the greatest sources of confusion on the planet
concerning the nature of God, grows out of the failure of the old sacred
books to clearly distinguish between the personalities of the Paradise
Trinity, Paradise Deity and the creators and administrators of local
universes of time and space. During the past dispensations of partial understanding,
the planetery priests and prophets
failed to clearly differentiate
between the universe 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
local universe Life Carriers and various orders of angels, have been, in old sacred
books and records, presented as coming
from God himself. Even today, the Urantian religious thought still
confuses the associate personalities of Deity with the Universal Father
himself, so that all are included under one appellation. Today, the people of Urantia still continue to suffer from
the influence of their primitive
concepts of God; the Gods which 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 rule the
universes.
In old Hebrew belief that "without the shedding of
blood there could be no remission of sin”,
Jews could 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
therefore, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial
sacrifice of animals. The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of
propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through
sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a
religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an
enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to
the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the
universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent
blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious
divine wrath. 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. The bestowal of a Paradise Son, the Christ Michael of
Nebadon, on this world, 2000 years ago,
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 to
believe, 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! 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. In this new Aquarian dispensational age, and further
cosmic teaching unfolding, the Urantia
mortal will better understand the purpose of his life in this
universe, and the planetary man
will soon begin to realize that
he lives in an organized realm of comparative Grand universe law and order, ruled by the
administrative policies and conducts of its Supreme Creators and the Supreme
Controllers under one God of all and in all. Reference: The
Urantia Book, Paper 4, Section 5 (edit/modif.) |
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