THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD

GOD’S OMNIPOTENCE

CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
November 2005
INTERIM-PAPER XXXVI

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 Paradise. The light and energy of the eternal

God thus swing on forever around the Paradise as the Personality

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 Paradise mind non-spirit energy

(monota) nor Paradise spirit, is not directly responsive to the

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 Paradise

3^rd 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

Paradise Trinity.

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 Paradise Deity

aspect- the Godheads, and so universally expressed in the Paradise

Trinity and their Paradise divine Sons of Trinity.

Outside of Paradise and the central universe of Havona, everything

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 Paradise Absolutes- the Deity

(Trinity spirit active “Father” Godheads), the Universal God

(Universal I AM ), and the Unqualified ( Almighty “Matter”

nether Paradise three reactive centers).

“And so is such will of God to manifest His presence”

Reference:

The Urantia book; Paper 3, Section 2 (edit, modif.), The Urantia Foundation