The Urantia Book - God's Unchanging Character

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For a long time it was believed the man God is like him. God is not jealous, there never has been and never will be man or any other being in the universe of universes. Knowing that the Creator Son intended man to be the masterpiece of the planetary creation, the ruler of the whole earth, to see him dominated by his baser passions, the spectacle of his bowing down before idols of wood, stone and gold, and selfish ambition, these sordid scenes stir God and his Sons to be jealous  for man, but never of him.

The eternal God is incapable of wrath and anger in the sense of these human emotions and as man understands such reactions. These feelings are low and despicable, unworthy of being called human, much less divine; and such attitudes are utterly foreign to the perfect nature and gracious character of the Universal Father.

Great, very great, part of the difficulty which Urantia mortals have in understanding God is due to the vast consequences of the Lucifer rebellion and the Caligastia betrayal. On worlds not segregated by sin, the evolutionary races are able to formulate far better ideas of the Universal Father; suffer less from confusion, distortion and perversion of concept.

God does not repent of anything he has done, what it does or what it will do. He is all-knowing while omnipotent. A man's wisdom born of trials and errors of human experience; God's wisdom consists in the unqualified perfection of his infinite universe insight, and this divine foreknowledge effectively directs the creative free will.

The Universal Father never does anything that causes subsequent sorrow or regret, but the planning and making of his Creator personalities in the outlying universes will creatures, sometimes, by his unfortunate choice, emotions of divine sorrow in the personalities of their Creator parents. But though the Father never makes mistakes, nor harbors regrets, nor experiences pain, is a being with fatherly affection and his heart certainly grieves when their children fail to attain the spiritual levels they are capable of achieving with the help so freely it has provided them with spiritual development plans and policy mortal ascension of universes.

The infinite goodness of the Father is beyond the comprehension of the finite mind of time; hence must always provided a comparative contrast with evil (not sin) for the effective exhibition of all phases of relative goodness. Imperfect mortal discernment can understand the perfection of divine goodness, only for its contrasting association with relative imperfection in the relationships of time and matter in the motions of space.

The character of God is infinitely superhuman; therefore, that nature of divinity be personalized, as it does in the divine Sons, before it can be understood even by faith in the finite mind of man.