The Urantia Book - Misconceptions About God

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Religious tradition is the imperfectly preserved record of the experiences of men of past ages who knew God, but such records are untrustworthy as guides for religious living or as the source of true information about the Universal Father. Invariably these ancient beliefs have been altered by the fact that primitive man was a maker of myths.

One of the main sources of confusion on Urantia concerning the nature of God comes from your sacred books were not able to clearly distinguish between the personalities of the Paradise Trinity and between Paradise Deity and the creators and administrators of the local universe. During the past dispensations of partial understanding, your priests and prophets were unable to distinguish between Planetary Princes, System Sovereigns, Constellation Fathers, Creator Sons, the rulers of the superuniverses, the Supreme Being, and the Universal Father. Many of the messages of subordinate personalities, such as Life Carriers and various orders of angels appear in your records as coming from God himself.

The people of Urantia continue to suffer the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike men in their anger; They are expressing their dissatisfaction with famines and floods -these are the gods of primitive religion; They are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. These concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was subject to the whims and mastery of these imaginary gods. But mortal man is beginning to realize that living in a realm of comparative law and order in regard to administrative policies and conduct of the Supreme Creators and the Supreme Controllers.

The barbarous idea of ​​appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a completely puerile and primitive religion, a philosophy unworthy of an era enlightened science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes. Is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath.

The Hebrews believed that "without shedding of blood there was no remission of sins." They had not freed from the ancient pagan that the gods can not be appeased except by the sight of blood idea, though Moses made remarkable progress in prohibiting human sacrifice and replace them in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin They followed by the ceremonial sacrifice of animals.

The granting of a Paradise Son on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; It was inescapable, and it was made necessary to win God's favor. This incarnation was also be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of getting the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a distortion of the infinite character of God! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw her bleeding and dying innocent Son on the cross of Calvary! God's relationship with the universe

But the inhabitants of Urantia are to find deliverance from these ancient errors and pagan superstitions respecting the nature of the Universal Father. The revelation of the truth about God is beginning to appear, and the human race is destined to know the Universal Father in all that beauty of character and loveliness of attributes so magnificently portrayed by the Creator Son who sojourned on Urantia as the Son of Man and the Son of God.

[Presented by a Divine Advisor Uversa.]