Paper 5 - God’s Relation to the Individual
This was an interesting Paper to read as the topic of God’s relationship to us is one that has always been important to me. I often find myself wondering, how can God love me? I fail in my walk with Him everyday! A paragraph that caught my eye immediately was one in which I was informed that God is not in spiritual hiding (5.1.10), which is something you often hear people ask when they raise the question, Why is God so difficult to find? Why does he seem to be absent? The paragraph goes on to tell me that it is, in fact, man that is hiding themselves away from God. I heard this said, in various forms, many many times in my Christian life, and if I am honest I always saw this as a “cop out” by the Christian; blame everything on the individual struggling to find God. Prayers not being answered? It’s your fault! Not received healing? It’s your fault! God seems so distant? It’s your fault! The Urantia book suggests that it is our own wilful decision to hide ourselves from God, and I certainly do see that in society today.
5.1.9 - Are we “reborn” in each super-universe? If so, do we start off in No.1 as lesser beings than Man, and work our way up through to the seventh super-universe? If so, what’s next? Going back to paragraph (5.1.10) I highlighted the sentence, Man’s final doom is not sealed until he has lost the power to choose the Father’s will. There is never a closure of the Father’s heart to the need and petition of his children. This is comforting to read as it tells me that no matter how I feel about my performance, so long as I continue to seek God, He will never close the door in my face. This does, however, raise one question for me; what exactly is the Father’s will?
When the mind believes God and the souls knows God, and when, with the fostering Adjuster, they all desire God, then is survival assured. (5.5.13) Another comforting read, especially as he goes on to tell us that nothing about our background, upbringing or circumstances can come between us and God. A question that I have in this paragraph is, Is the “Adjuster” another name for what the Bible calls the Holy Spirit?
(5.6.7) Here I read something that I have always believed as a Christian; that nothing, no other being, force, creator, or agency in all the wide universe of universes can interfere to any degree with the absolute sovereignty of the mortal free will, as it operates within the realms of choice, regarding the eternal destiny of the personality of the choosing mortal.
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