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GOD’S RELATION TO THE UNIVERSE
The Erroneous Ideas About God |
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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. *** 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 planetary 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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