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THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
GOD’S OMNIPRESENCE |
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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God is present everywhere; the
Universal Father rules the circle of eternity. In the local universes He
rules and bestows life through the persons of His “God has given us eternal
life, and this life is in His Sons.” The local universe Creator
Sons are the personal expressions of God in the sector of time and to the
children of the whirling planets of the evolving universes of space. The Universal Father, invisible
because of His absoluteness and the infinity inherent in the circle of
eternity and in the personalities of the Deities. The highly
personalized Creator Sons of God the Father are clearly discernable by the
lower orders of created intelligences, and so do they compensate for the
invisibility of the infinite and therefore less discernable Father. Creatorship is hardly an
attribute of God the Father; it is rather the aggregate of His acting
nature. Father’s universal function of creatorship is eternally manifested as it
is conditioned and controlled by all the coordinated attributes of the
infinite and divine reality of the First Source and Center. The
creatorship of Fathers universal function culminates in the universal
truth about the Fatherhood of God. Father’s omnipresence
represents His ability to be present everywhere at the same time. “I am a God at hand as well
afar off” says the Lord. “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” The Universal Father is
present at all times in all parts and in all hearts of His far-flung creation. It
is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of
God. The living God is immeasurably
greater than the sum of total of creation that has come into being as a
result of the creative act of His unfettered free will, because the
Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity, the Eternal in eternity, and
the cause can never be fully comprehended by analysis of effects as the
secular science is trying to postulate. God is revealed throughout the
cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass the entirety of
the infinity of God. The Father’s presence unceasingly patrols the master
universe. “His going forth is from the
end of the heaven, and His circuit to the end of it; and there is nothing
hidden from the light thereof.” The creature not only exists
in God, but God also lives in the creature. “God is always with us. He is
the guiding spirit of eternal destiny.” “The true God is not afar off;
he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us.” “The spirit of the everlasting
Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child.” “Man goes forth searching for
a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart.” The omnipresence of God is in
reality a part of his infinite nature; the space constitutes no
barrier to Deity. God is, in perfection and
without limitation, discernibly present only on the creations encircling
Havona, for God has limited his direct and actual presence in recognition of the
sovereignty and the divine prerogatives of the co-ordinate creators and
rulers of the universe of time and space. Hence must the concept of the
God’s divine presence allow for a wide range of both mode and channel of
manifestation embracing the presence circuits of the Eternal Son, The
Infinite Spirit, and the Isle of always possible to distinguish
between the presence of the Universal Father and the actions of his eternal
co-ordinates and agencies, so perfectly do they fulfill all the infinite
requirements of his unchanging purpose. However, with the personality
circuit and his indwelling gifts to men- His Thought Adjusters, here
God acts uniquely, directly and exclusively. God as the Universal
Controller is potentially present in the gravity currents of the Isle of and in the same degree, in
accordance with the mass, in response to the physical demands for this
presence, and because of the inherent nature of all creation which causes
all things to adhere and consist in Him. Likewise is the Father, as the
First Source and Center, potentially present in the Unqualified Absolute of
the nether uncreated universes of the
eternal future. God the Father is the primordial foundation of the coherence of
His non-spiritual Deity potential for so-called material creation. The mind presence of God is
correlated with the absolute mind of the Spirit, but in the finite
creations it is better discerned in the everywhere functioning presence of the
cosmic mind of the Master Spirit # 7 functions
centrally in the hearts of Urantians as the Paradise Trinity Spirit
presence, also known as the Three-Fold Flame. Mind of the evolving humans is
a bestowal of the Divine Ministers of the evolving local universes, the
Daughters of the The everywhere-present spirit
of the Universal Father is coordinated with the function of the universal
Spirit of Truth presence of the Eternal Son of the potential
of the I AM Absolute Deity. However, neither the spiritual
activity of the Eternal Son and his Creator Sons functioning in
the local universes, nor the mind bestowals of the Infinite Spirit and its
local universe daughters, the Divine Ministers, do not interfere with the
direct action of the Fathers Thought Adjusters, the indwelling fragments of
God in the hearts of humans. Concerning God’s presence in a
planet, local system, constellation, or a local universe, the degree of
such presence is a measure of the degree of the evolved presence of the
Supreme Being of the particular sector of the superuniverse, and it is
determined by the en-masse recognition of God and loyalty to Him on the part
of the superuniverse organizations down to the local systems and the
evolving planets themselves. For these reasons, in order to
conserve and safeguard these phases of God’s precious presence, the planets
such as Urantia, or even local systems which have plunged far into
spiritual darkness, become partially isolated or quarantined from the rest of
the created universe. This is the spiritual safeguard or defensive reaction
of the majority of the worlds to save themselves, as far as
possible, from suffering the isolating consequences of the alienating acts of the
headstrong, wicked and rebellious spiritually compromised
minority such as Urantians unwilling to accept the Fatherhood
of one God of all and the spiritual Brother- and Sister-hood of
all men (Male- Female souls/solar polarity manifestations). While the Father parentally
encircuits all his sons- all personalities- His influence in them is
limited by the remoteness of their origin from the Second and the Third Persons
of destiny attainment nears such
levels. The FACT of God’s presence in
creature minds is determined by weather or not they are indwelt by the
Father’s Spirit fragment- the Thought Adjuster of the I AM presence,
but His EFFECTIVE presence is determined by the degree of
cooperation these indwelling Adjusters receive in the working minds
of their human sojourners. The fluctuations of the
Father’s presence are not due to the changeableness of God. The Father does not
retire in seclusion because He has been slighted; His affections are
not alienated because of the creature’s wrongdoing. Rather, having
been endowed with the power of choice (concerning himself), His
children in the exercise of that choice, directly determine the degree and
limitations of the Fathers divine influence in their own hearts and souls. Father has freely bestowed
upon us without limit and without favor. He is not respecter of
persons, planets, local systems or local universes. In the sectors of time He
confers differential honor only on the personalities of God the
Sevenfold (God of the seven superuniverses) which are the co-ordinate
creators of the seven finite superuniverses of time and space. REFERENCES: The Urantia book, Paper 3, Section 1 (edit, modif.), The
Urantia Foundation
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