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SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I The Foreword, the first words that the authors write in the revelation presented as The Urantia Book, differs from all other papers in the book in both purpose and design. Though it can be studied as if it’s just another paper, we should keep... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I Paper 1 is significant not only because it is the first paper in The Urantia Book but because it introduces us to one of the basic and most mysterious truths of the entire Urantia revelation: God is the Original Personality who is the source of... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I When man regards himself as a child of God and looks upon the Creator as a true spiritual Father, he has begun to grasp the nature of God. In this paper, through some familiar Biblical quotes, we are reminded of the many ways in which a Creator... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I The six attributes of God expounded in this paper—omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience, infinite nature, eternal nature, first source and center of all things—reflect a Judeo-Christian understanding of God, yet differ in some key ways. | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I This paper helps us to understand God’s eternal purpose for the creation of his universe and his attitude towards it. It goes on to explain his relationship with nature, as well as how a knowledge of his true character helps to further our... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I Although God resides in Paradise at the center of all things, he also lives within our minds in the form of Thought Adjusters. To find God and to commune with him, we do not need to go any further than our own inner experience of contemplating... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I The Eternal Son is the Second Person of the Paradise Trinity and the Second Great Source and Center. On Paradise, he surrounds and enshrouds the personal presence of the Universal Father and, therefore, the Father is personally manifested to the... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I The Eternal Son is the complete, exclusive, universal, and final revelation of the spirit and personality of the Universal Father. He is concerned only with the spiritual aspects of the Father's eternal purpose and is therefore all-present,... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I When the Universal Father's infinite and absolute thought finds divine expression in the Eternal Son, both the Thought-God and the Word-God desire an agent of combined action. And when they conjointly conceive an identical and infinite action,... | |||||
SELF-DIRECTED STUDY / Part I This paper describes the Infinite Spirit’s unifying agencies and functions. It begins with the intriguing words, “A strange thing occurred …,” going on to explain that this occurrence happened when, in order to jointly personalize... |