I apologize, this one really burns in me.

Is what the Urantia Book says complex or simple?

Does one need to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to understand the text of the Urantia book?

Is what Jesus taught complex or simple?

If we are the sons of God, is that complex or simple?

Is simple complex?

Here's a paradox:
Is simple complex?
Yes.

Considering the preceding, for folks like Lucifer, Satan, Caligastia and Daligastia, simple is complex.

As Rexford stated already, love is a complex concept with many levels of perception and application.

Love is not complicated nor complex.

The buddhist walks up to the hot dog vendor and tells him to "make me one with everything."

...The vendor gives him a hot dog and the buddhist gives him a twenty dollar bill. After a moment of waiting, the buddhist asks, "Where's my change?" The vendor smiles and says, "Ahh, change must come from within."

Sure Manny....consistency is important.....what I mean is the "mortal" concepts of love are all over the map, including self indulgence (I love to eat, etc.), romantic infatuation, passion for a school or team or candidate, etc., self adoration, celebrity worship, et al.

Pure love of the selfless or self forgetting form is not complicated. In its purity however are multiple levels of appreciation or utilization...it's all the same love, but its form applied by mind in maturity, experience, and wisdom may be less or more in power and effect. But that love given to any other without self-gratification at its center is pure regardless of its voltage (power of effect), Or so I understand it.

Sorry for the apparent contradiction.

[. . .] God needs no justification however and should never be made into the image of man as is our historical preponderance and error. We cannot truly fathom God or His nature or His purpose or His plan....but we may be assured of our standing as children in one family in love with and service to one another. I am sure of that much. He has created a system where the lowliest attain the highest and the highest attain/serve the lowest in a universe of experiential evolution into perfection by free will choice over time. And that eventuation/result will bring about entirely new levels of experience and ministry in the eternities to come. Glorious.

I look forward to your opinions Manny and that text which relates. Certainly God the Supreme "gains" by every experience and expression of love. And I don't think love, the essence of pure love, comes in degrees, no. But the wisdom of those who express love does moderate its effect in degrees of wisdom perhaps. 6 volt is as pure as 220 but it does not have the same force or effect - still pure current though. God is the original "turbine" of love creation and we are the grid-end "outlet"....the wiser and more experienced is our love, the greater the current applied. (this metaphor is entirely inadequate of course to illustrate the love circuit or mind or spirit gravity circuits)

As to God's self regard, etc., I'll let others speak to that. God needs no justification however and should never be made into the image of man as is our historical preponderance and error. We cannot truly fathom God or His nature or His purpose or His plan....but we may be assured of our standing as children in one family in love with and service to one another. I am sure of that much. He has created a system where the lowliest attain the highest and the highest attain/serve the lowest in a universe of experiential evolution into perfection by free will choice over time. And that eventuation/result will bring about entirely new levels of experience and ministry in the eternities to come. Glorious.

I simply love you.

"sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble tres bien ensemble"

I look forward to your opinions Manny and that text which relates.

And I don't think love, the essence of pure love, comes in degrees, no. But the wisdom of those who express love does moderate its effect in degrees of wisdom perhaps.