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GOD, RELIGION AND
WORSHIP
Part I |
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CEDOMIL VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D.
Interim Paper VIII |
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The morality of the “religions
of evolution” lead the men forward in the God quest by the motive power of
fear. The “religions of revelation”
encourage men to seek the God of love and to be like him. TRUE RELIGION is a living and dynamic
experience of divinity attainment and the establishment of an enduring unity
in human experience of a lasting peace and a profound assurance of eternal
salvation by following the God’s way to Paradise. With primitive man, even
polytheism is a relative unification of the evolving concept of Deity;
polytheism is monotheism in making. Sooner or later, God is destined to be
comprehended as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the
life of truth. GOD is not only the determiner
of universe destiny; HE IS man’s eternal destination! All nonreligious, secular
human activities seek to bend the universe to the distorting service of self. TRULY RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUAL
seeks to identify him/her-“self” with the “Self” of the universe and then to
dedicate the activities of this unified “self-Self” to the service of the
universe family of his/hers fellow beings, human and superhuman. The domains of philosophy and
art intervene between the nonreligious and the religious actions of the human
“self”. Through art and philosophy the
material-minded man is inveigled into the contemplation of the spiritual
realities and universe values of eternal meanings. From
the universe standpoint, the There
is also the difference between the Godheads in the matter of personal
appeals, communion, and other intimate relations. In
the highest sense, TRUE WORSHIP is of the UNIVERSAL FATHER and HIM ONLY. True,
we can and we do worship the Father as he is manifested in his local
universes of his Supplications
of all kinds belong to the realm of the Eternal Son of Prayers,
all formal communications, everything except adoration and worship of the
Universal Father, are matters that concern a local universe Creator Sons and
they do not ordinarily proceed out of the realm of their local universe
jurisdiction. All
true worship is, however, always dispatched to the Father by the function of
His personality circuit with His Creator Sons. In
addition there is also the presence of the “I AM” indwelling spirit
Thought-Adjuster within human heart, empowered to register all bona fide true
adorations of their subjects about the Father, utilizing both, their direct
pre-personal channels of communications with the Father and the local
universes Creator Son-Paradise Eternal Son spirit-gravity circuits. PRAYER
embodies a “self”-creature interest element in praying for something in
return. True
worship is, however, for its own sake, and that is the great difference
between true worship and prayer. TRUE
WORSHIP asks nothing and expects nothing for the worshiper. There
is absolutely no self-request or other element of personal interest in true
worship; we simply worship God for what we comprehend him to be. We
do not worship the Father because of anything we may derive from such
veneration; we render such devotion and engage in such worship as natural and
spontaneous reaction to the recognition of the Father’s matchless personality
and because of His lovable nature and adorable attributes. The
moment the element of self-interest intrudes upon worship, that instant
devotion translates from worship to prayer and should be, therefore, directed
to the person of the Eternal Son of Paradise Trinity, or to the Creator Son
of the local universe in which the individual has its planetary existence,
i.e. Michael of Nebadon for Urantians. In
reality of practical religious experience, prayers being part of true worship
addressed to God the Father, will be automatically configured and distributed
both to the Son and to the Father respectively, via their existent respective
spirit-gravity circuits. When
dealing with the practical affairs of daily life, humans are in the hands of
the Infinite Spirit personalities of the Conjoining Actor of the i.e.
humans co-operate with the spirit agencies originating in the REFERENCE: The
Urantia book; Paper 5, Sections 3 & 4 (edit), The Urantia Foundation |
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