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Welcome to our webpage lovingly dedicated to God - The Universal Father. This page is dedicated to the search for, and the study of God through the Revelation of The Urantia Book.
One of the most stirring statements in The Urantia Book is this:
"Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and
the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences." ~ The Urantia Book, (102:7.10)
Seeking God and finding God constitute the most thrilling adventure of a lifetime. There is no pursuit quite as satisfying or quite as all-
encompassing as the pursuit of truth, beauty and goodness, all of which are found in the
always-enlarging realization of the Father. In The Urantia Book, Jesus teaches us
that it is"... the greatest discovery possible for the human soul to make—the supernal
experience of finding God for yourself, in yourself, and of yourself, and of doing all this as a fact in your own personal experience."
In The Urantia Book, we are gifted with a revelation of God that has no modern
equal. The fact of God, the reality of God, his personality, his nature, his character,
and his relationship with both the universe and with every
individual - these newly-revealed aspects of God, and much more - give the truth-seeker a stunning new picture of the Author of all Truth.
Simply click on the links which will take you on a journey of discovery.
"When men search for God, they are searching for everything. When they find God, they have found everything."~ The Urantia Book, (117:6.9)
The following links will provide you with a striking collection of beautiful and inspiring Quote of the Day selections all about God. They are
delightful appetizers; but for the most complete study of God, there is simply no substitute for reading the text of The Urantia Book.
Immerse yourself in The Urantia Book's revelation of God. Relax. "Be still", and
learn to know God as you may never have known him. But we hope you'll have your appetizer before you go...and come back anytime for instant
inspiration!
No study of God the Father can be complete without the addition of Jesus of Nazareth, who revealed God to mankind, and whose appearance on earth
over 2000 years ago still reverberates throughout the world. Jesus WAS God to mankind, and he still remains today, the closest we mortals can get to
understanding the loving nature of God the Father.
Jesus devoted his life to teaching of God - by word and by example. Many of his followers were disappointed that he refused to assume an earthly
throne, but instead, Jesus established a Kingdom of eternal beauty that can never be destroyed - The kingdom of heaven - wherein all of his children are secured a place, simply by faith.
In these following Quote of the Day collections, you can learn much more about Jesus and his mission to reveal God to humanity.
God
The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will
creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the
children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. ~ The Urantia Book, (1:0.3)
Since the beginning man has wanted to know about God - to know if God exists - to know if God cares - to know if their lives have meaning when God
is so big. But most of all, in our hearts, we want to KNOW GOD. We have all been taught such very different and sometimes not very favorable things
about God. Click on the following links and experience a whole new way to look at God. The truths of these papers will resonate within your heart and
thrill your soul. This is the place to start when you are ready to meet God again, for the
very first time.
Who Is God? These Urantia Book Papers hold the answer.
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God Within Man - The Thought Adjuster
God's love for his mortal children is so encompassing, so far-reaching, that he makes himself completely available to every individual mortal
through the ministry of mind; this simply means that a fragment - a "spark" - of God literally indwells your mind, thus allowing God to experience in
the most intimate way, your day-to-day life with you, good and bad. In turn, we mortals are allowed to experience in our inmost beings the reality of
God - his goodness, his love and his joy. As we strive more and more to find him within our hearts, he becomes just that much more real in our
experience. We live in God, and God does, literally, live in us. The Urantia Book designates this fragment of God the Thought Adjuster. Its
job is to help attune our thoughts and our minds towards the recognition of the always desirable will of God. "It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward."
Said Jesus: "No more shall suffering mortals be denied
the comfort of knowing the love of God and understanding the mercy of the Father in heaven. While the speech of God spoken from the whirlwind was a
majestic concept for the day of its utterance, you have already learned that the Father does not thus reveal himself, but rather that he speaks within
the human heart as a still, small voice, saying, `This is the way; walk therein.' Do you not comprehend that God dwells within you, that he has become
what you are that he may make you what he is!" ~ The Urantia Book,
(148:6.10)
This is such a beautiful statement, and so plainly said - Jesus did not equivocate. What a comfort - what a joy - what a solid foundation upon which
to build a strong faith and a life of truth, beauty and goodness...to know for certain that we go in partnership with the very Creator of all that is!
And when we come to know - and experience - this saving fact of the Father's indwelling presence, it can transform a mediocre life into one of renewed
purpose, grace and goodness.
For the most comprehensive exploration of the Thought Adjusters, please see the following Papers:
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God's Will
Far from the Old Testament God of old, before whom mankind, even to this day cowers in fear, the revelation of the Universal Father in The Urantia Book shows us the eternal truth of a God so large and embracing and good
that there is no room in his nature for negative thought or intention; no thoughts of vengeance or retribution. Far from a niggling dread that his
Divine will may be something we need fear, The Urantia Book's teachings about God help us to welcome and seek his will in our lives - to
embrace it and dedicate our own free will to its realization. His spiritual reality, his loving-kindness, his matchless personality, and above all, his attitude of
Fatherly affection for all of his children are just a few of God's adorable qualities.
Said Jesus: "You have been taught that you should `fear God and keep his commandments, for that is the whole duty of
man.' But I have come to give you a new and higher commandment. I would teach you to `love God and learn to do his will, for that is the highest
privilege of the liberated sons of God.' Your fathers were taught to `fear God—the Almighty King.' I teach you, `Love God—the all-merciful
Father.' ~ The Urantia Book, (149:6.7)
We are blessed to belong to a time in history when the truth of God is finally re-told...
Read about choosing God's Will: The Consecration of Choice
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Find God
Find God in this selection of Truthbook's Quote of the Day offerings. Come back often ...
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 God Is Love
"When once you grasp the idea of God as a true and loving Father, the only concept which Jesus ever taught, you must forthwith, in all
consistency, utterly abandon all those primitive notions about God as an offended monarch, a stern and all-powerful ruler whose chief delight is to
detect his subjects in wrongdoing and to see that they are adequately punished, unless some being almost equal to himself should volunteer to suffer
for them, to die as a substitute and in their stead. The whole idea of ransom and atonement is incompatible with the concept of God as it was taught and exemplified by Jesus of Nazareth. The infinite love of God is
not secondary to anything in the divine nature." ~ The Urantia Book,
(188:4.8)
Learn much more about the love of God and the God of love in these beautiful and inspiring selection from Quote of the Day:
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God as Father and Friend
One of the most beautiful truths of the expanded revelation of God contained within
The Urantia Book is the teaching about God as Father. We learn that God is Father of our spirit selves just as our earthly father is parent
to our material bodies. And since our spirit selves are destined for eternity, that Father-child relationship will persist throughout our eternal
career. God is a real person, and is personally real - a true friend and a true Father.
The concept of God as a Father was not original with Jesus, but he exalted and elevated the idea into a sublime experience by achieving a new revelation of God and by proclaiming that every mortal creature is a child of this Father of
love, a son of God. ~ The Urantia Book, (196:0.2)
"The affectionate heavenly Father, whose spirit indwells his children on earth, is not a divided personality—one of justice and one of mercy—neither does it require a mediator to secure the Father's favor or forgiveness. Divine righteousness is not dominated by strict retributive justice; God as a
father transcends God as a judge." ~ The Urantia Book, (2:6.6)
"Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart." ~ The Urantia Book, (3:1.4)
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God Within
You may also enjoy the following selections from our Quote of the Day feature which beautifully instruct, through Urantia Book quotes and stunning
photography, the truths of the indwelling God.
The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. "We know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his
spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man's inseparable companion." ~ The Urantia Book, (3:1.4)
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The Will of God
Only in the perfection, harmony, and unanimity of will can the creature become as one with the Creator; and such a state of divinity is attained
and maintained only by the creature's continuing to live in time and eternity by
consistently conforming his finite personal will to the divine will of the Creator. Always must the desire to do the Father's will be supreme in the
soul and dominant over the mind of an ascending son of God. ~ The Urantia Book,
(130:4.3)
Man does not achieve union with God as a drop of water might find unity with the
ocean. Man attains divine union by progressive reciprocal spiritual communion, by personality intercourse with the personal God, by increasingly attaining the divine nature through wholehearted and intelligent
conformity to the divine will. Such a sublime relationship can exist only between personalities. ~ The Urantia Book, (1:7.2)
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God-Consciousness
The realization of the recognition of spiritual values is an experience which is superideational. There is no word in any human language which can be employed to designate this "sense," "feeling," "intuition," or
"experience" which we have elected to call God-consciousness. ~ The Urantia Book, (103:1.6)
Every human being very early experiences something of a conflict between his self-seeking and his altruistic impulses, and many times the first
experience of God-consciousness may be attained as the result of seeking for superhuman help in the task of resolving such moral conflicts. ~ The
Urantia Book, (103:2.4)
To see God—by faith—means to acquire true spiritual insight. And spiritual insight enhances Adjuster guidance, and these in the end augment God-
consciousness. ~ The Urantia Book, (140:5.13)
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God, Eternal Life and Immortality
The fact that mortal man goes in willing partnership with God ensures that that human being will "awaken on the shores
of a better world...Then will begin your real life, the ascending life"
Said Jesus: "When you have by faith once established yourself as a son of God, nothing else matters as regards the
surety of survival." ~ The Urantia Book, (176:3.3)
In so far as man's evolving morontia soul becomes permeated by truth, beauty, and goodness as the value-realization of God-consciousness, such a resultant being becomes
indestructible. ~ The Urantia Book, (111:3.7)
The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. God can be realized only in the
realms of human experience; nevertheless, the true concept of the reality of God is reasonable to logic, plausible to philosophy, essential to religion, and indispensable to any hope of personality survival. ~ The Urantia Book, (1 :2.4)
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 God and Religion
Religion has to do with the spiritual viewpoint, the awareness of the insideness of human experience. Man's spiritual nature affords him
the opportunity of turning the universe outside in. It is therefore true that, viewed exclusively from the insideness of personality experience, all creation appears to be spiritual in nature. ~ The Urantia
Book, (103 :6.3)
In reality, every human being defines religion in the terms of his own experiential
interpretation of the divine impulses emanating from the God spirit that indwells him, and therefore must such an interpretation be unique and wholly
different from the religious philosophy of all other human beings. ~ The Urantia Book, (103 :1.1)
The security of a religious group depends on spiritual unity, not on theological uniformity. A religious group should be able to enjoy the
liberty of freethinking without having to become "freethinkers." There is great hope for any church that worships the living God, validates the brotherhood of man, and dares to remove all creedal pressure from its members. ~ The
Urantia Book, (103 :5.12)
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God as a Personal Experience
Man very early becomes conscious that he is not alone in the world or the universe. There develops a natural spontaneous self-consciousness of
other-mindness in the environment of selfhood. Faith translates this natural experience into religion, the recognition of God as the reality—source,
nature, and destiny—of other-mindness. But such a knowledge of God is ever and always a reality of personal experience. If God were not a personality, he could not become a living part of the real religious experience of a human
personality. ~ The Urantia Book, (102:4.3)
Faith transforms the philosophic God of probability into the saving God of certainty in the personal religious experience. Skepticism may challenge the theories of theology, but
confidence in the dependability of personal experience affirms the truth of that belief which has grown into faith. ~ The Urantia Book, (102:6.4)
Those who would invent a religion without God are like those who would gather fruit
without trees, have children without parents. You cannot have effects without causes; only the I AM is causeless. The fact of religious experience
implies God, and such a God of personal experience must be a personal Deity. You cannot pray to a chemical formula, supplicate a mathematical
equation, worship a hypothesis, confide in a postulate, commune with a process, serve an abstraction, or hold loving fellowship with a law. ~ The
Urantia Book, (102:7.3)
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Ideas That Help Us to Find God
In the mortal life, paths of differential conduct are continually opening and closing, and during the times when choice is possible the human personality is constantly deciding between these many courses of action. Temporal volition is
linked to time, and it must await the passing of time to find opportunity for expression. Spiritual volition has begun to taste liberation from the
fetters of time, having achieved partial escape from time sequence, and that is because spiritual volition is self-identifying with the will of God. ~
The Urantia Book, (118:6.6)
Here you will find practical advice for enlarging your experience of God in your every-day experience...
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Jesus Revealed God
Jesus' mission was to tell a new truth about God. When Jesus was on earth, his mission was to reveal anew to mankind the loving nature of God. And
that revelation that Jesus lived constituted the fourth revelation of epochal significance
to our planet. Jesus WAS God made visible to mortal eyes, while at the same time living the
life of a mortal creature like you or me, which is why his incarnation on earth has so much meaning and value even after 2000 years. Jesus often said
that "He who has seen me has seen the Father."
These selections from The Urantia Book will help you understand more about the revelation of God that was Jesus of Nazareth.
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Jesus Teaches of God
Jesus was the consummate teacher. He was so adept at teaching the truth because he LIVED the truth - he was the truth. Sit at his feet while the
Master tells you of God.
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The Kingdom of God
Along with the revelation of God to mankind, Jesus introduced the Kingdom idea - he
disappointed some by his refusal to assume a worldly throme, but he established a spiritual kingdom of eternal value - one that is growing still, and
one that is open to all. Jesus said: "where the spirit of God teaches and leads the soul of man, there in reality is the kingdom of heaven. And this kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and
joy in the Holy Spirit."
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Topical Studies and Video Selections
On this page, we invite you to do some exploration for God through other areas of our site. We hope you'll enjoy clicking through, and savoring
some of our favorite offerings from the website, along with some links from other sites:
Truthbook's Topical Studies about God, his Divine Will, and the ministry of Thought Adjusters - the mystery of God's Presence within you
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Screensavers
Finally, here are some of our favorite Quote of the Day screensavers which can be easily downloaded to your desktop so that you can be reminded
daily of The magnificence of our Heavenly Father. Simply click on your selection and follow the instructions.
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