The Late Great Urantia Revelation

[freelight]

Jesusonian gospel.............

Jesusonian gospel.............

The ub is not recognized as a source for truth here. We all know that the ub is a fabrication, so we ignore it. The ub might be accepted on a UFO forum, but not a Christian forum.

Part 4 is all about Jesus, his life, teachings, resurrection, ascension, etc (one of the most complete extensive records existing, believe it or not). By sheer volume, it speaks more of Jesus than the NT, revealing every year of his life, and his special place in the divine hierarchy as our Creator Son (it expands on the various orders of Sons of God, angels, and other cosmic beings). Its no more a fabrication than the gospels (or any biblical stories), since the gospel narratives cannot be proven to have taken place and could have a good share of mythology and religious teachings from other cultures woven in, besides we not knowing for sure who penned them (even though famous names may been ascribed to them), besides other 'redactions' made by scribes over the centuries, 'tailoring' the records.

The UB does substantiate much of the teachings of Jesus from the gospel records and expands upon them, so it does agree that a historical Jesus existed, although his message and the religion that formed later after him distorted and changed the original message-emphasis, and things further took on a life of its own as it evolved into 'orthodox christianity', and its various dogmas and creeds.

To use a more fitting term, the UB is 'Jesusonian' in its message, as we've covered here before. See the very last Paper 196 here on 'The Faith of Jesus'. The papers mention this term 5 times -

94:4.10 Today, in India, the great need is for the portrayal of the Jesusonian gospel —the Fatherhood of God and the sonship and consequent brotherhood of all men, which is personally realized in loving ministry and social service. In India the philosophical framework is existent, the cult structure is present; all that is needed is the vitalizing spark of the dynamic love portrayed in the original gospel of the Son of Man, divested of the Occidental dogmas and doctrines which have tended to make Michael's life bestowal a white man's religion.

94:10.3 The Tibetans have something of all the leading world religions except the simple teachings of the Jesusonian gospel: sonship with God, brotherhood with man, and ever-ascending citizenship in the eternal universe.

95:7.3 Here and there throughout Arabia were families and clans that held on to the hazy idea of the one God. Such groups treasured the traditions of Melchizedek, Abraham, Moses, and Zoroaster. There were numerous centers that might have responded to the Jesusonian gospel, but the Christian missionaries of the desert lands were an austere and unyielding group in contrast with the compromisers and innovators who functioned as missionaries in the Mediterranean countries.

195:10.5 In winning souls for the Master, it is not the first mile of compulsion, duty, or convention that will transform man and his world, but rather the second mile of free service and liberty-loving devotion that betokens the Jesusonian reaching forth to grasp his brother in love and sweep him on under spiritual guidance toward the higher and divine goal of mortal existence. Christianity even now willingly goes the first mile, but mankind languishes and stumbles along in moral darkness because there are so few genuine second-milers—so few professed followers of Jesus who really live and love as he taught his disciples to live and love and serve.

196:2.1 Some day a reformation in the Christian church may strike deep enough to get back to the unadulterated religious teachings of Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. You may preach a religion about Jesus, but, perforce, you must live the religion of Jesus. In the enthusiasm of Pentecost, Peter unintentionally inaugurated a new religion, the religion of the risen and glorified Christ. The Apostle Paul later on transformed this new gospel into Christianity, a religion embodying his own theologic views and portraying his own personal experience with the Jesus of the Damascus road. The gospel of the kingdom is founded on the personal religious experience of the Jesus of Galilee; Christianity is founded almost exclusively on the personal religious experience of the Apostle Paul. Almost the whole of the New Testament is devoted, not to the portrayal of the significant and inspiring religious life of Jesus, but to a discussion of Paul's religious experience and to a portrayal of his personal religious convictions. The only notable exceptions to this statement, aside from certain parts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are the Book of Hebrews and the Epistle of James. Even Peter, in his writing, only once reverted to the personal religious life of his Master. The New Testament is a superb Christian document, but it is only meagerly Jesusonian.

Here we see the 'Jesusonian gospel' is about the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, the spiritual rebirth of one realizing this 'sonship' in the Spirit, and then living that divinely inspired life of love and service. It is primarily a social gospel since its all relational, from the smallest family units, communities and then nations, for it is only when all receive and live out the gospel (as sons of God recognizing God as 'Our Heavenly Father') that we can live together in peace, there being righteousness and justice. So,...it would behoove you to first become properly educated in what the UB is all about before carrying on with your usual assumptions.

 

[TulipBee]

Happy Birthday Jesus :drum:




"All that night Mary was restless so that neither of them slept much. By the break of day the pangs of childbirth were well in evidence, and at noon, August 21, 7 B.C., with the help and kind ministrations of women fellow travelers, Mary was delivered of a male child. Jesus of Nazareth was born into the world, was wrapped in the clothes which Mary had brought along for such a possible contingency, and laid in a near-by manger.

122:8.2 In just the same manner as all babies before that day and since have come into the world, the promised child was born; and on the eighth day, according to the Jewish practice, he was circumcised and formally named Joshua (Jesus)."

merry christmas!

 

[Caino]

Part 4 is all about Jesus, his life, teachings, resurrection, ascension, etc (one of the most complete extensive records existing, believe it or not). By sheer volume, it speaks more of Jesus than the NT, revealing every year of his life, and his special place in the divine hierarchy as our Creator Son (it expands on the various orders of Sons of God, angels, and other cosmic beings). Its no more a fabrication than the gospels (or any biblical stories), since the gospel narratives cannot be proven to have taken place and could have a good share of mythology and religious teachings from other cultures woven in, besides we not knowing for sure who penned them (even though famous names may been ascribed to them), besides other 'redactions' made by scribes over the centuries, 'tailoring' the records.

The UB does substantiate much of the teachings of Jesus from the gospel records and expands upon them, so it does agree that a historical Jesus existed, although his message and the religion that formed later after him distorted and changed the original message-emphasis, and things further took on a life of its own as it evolved into 'orthodox christianity', and its various dogmas and creeds.

To use a more fitting term, the UB is 'Jesusonian' in its message, as we've covered here before. See the very last Paper 196 here on 'The Faith of Jesus'. The papers mention this term 5 times -



Here we see the 'Jesusonian gospel' is about the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, the spiritual rebirth of one realizing this 'sonship' in the Spirit, and then living that divinely inspired life of love and service. It is primarily a social gospel since its all relational, from the smallest family units, communities and then nations, for it is only when all receive and live out the gospel (as sons of God recognizing God as 'Our Heavenly Father') that we can live together in peace, there being righteousness and justice. So,...it would behoove you to first become properly educated in what the UB is all about before carrying on with your usual assumptions.

Thanks for putting together those quotes Freelight! Good stuff! Indeed the world is ripe for the restatement of the gospel of Jesus. It is so sad that the church politicians have made these people on TOL so narrow minded and hateful.

 

[patrick jane]

Part 4 is all about Jesus, his life, teachings, resurrection, ascension, etc (one of the most complete extensive records existing, believe it or not). By sheer volume, it speaks more of Jesus than the NT, revealing every year of his life, and his special place in the divine hierarchy as our Creator Son

Blasphemy -

 

[freelight]

Context is key

Context is key

Blasphemy -

What I shared is a fact, read what I wrote in context before jumping the proverbial gun. Take a deep breath and read my commentary again.

Part 4 is all about Jesus, his life, teachings, resurrection, ascension, etc (one of the most complete extensive records existing, believe it or not). By sheer volume, it speaks more of Jesus than the NT, revealing every year of his life,

Read that in context? Read Part 4 and you'll see every year of Jesus life described in detail and it expands extensively on his entire life mission and teachings. The NT does not contain any information on the lost years of Jesus (age 12 - 30 ish). The UB and other records such as The Aquarian Gospel does. Each resource must be evaluated on its own content and context. There are also channeled writings and messages claiming to be from Jesus and the apostles themselves (via various mediums), so you have to do your own homework of the material out there, at last using your own conscience and spiritual discernment.

So my statement that by sheer volume, the UB speaks more of Jesus than the NT is a fact, and not an issue of blasphemy.

 

[journey]

Freelight and Caino,

I'll keep this short and simple. The ub is spoiled baloney. I would trust it more if I knew it was written by Elmer Fudd.

 

[Zeke]

Freelight and Caino,

I'll keep this short and simple. The ub is spoiled baloney. I would trust it more if I knew it was written by Elmer Fudd.

And you're dogma is as well, you can't face the facts so you project you're doubts onto others while pretending to have some truth you haven't fully researched.

 

[Caino]

LIFE TRANSPLANTATION



36:3.1 "Life does not spontaneously appear in the universes; the Life Carriers must initiate it on the barren planets. They are the carriers, disseminators, and guardians of life as it appears on the evolutionary worlds of space. All life of the order and forms known on Urantia arises with these Sons, though not all forms of planetary life are existent on Urantia.

36:3.2 The corps of Life Carriers commissioned to plant life upon a new world usually consists of one hundred senior carriers, one hundred assistants, and one thousand custodians. The Life Carriers often carry actual life plasm to a new world, but not always. They sometimes organize the life patterns after arriving on the planet of assignment in accordance with formulas previously approved for a new adventure in life establishment. Such was the origin of the planetary life of Urantia.

36:3.3 When, in accordance with approved formulas, the physical patterns have been provided, then do the Life Carriers catalyze this lifeless material, imparting through their persons the vital spirit spark; and forthwith do the inert patterns become living matter.

36:3.4 The vital spark—the mystery of life—is bestowed through the Life Carriers, not by them. They do indeed supervise such transactions, they formulate the life plasm itself, but it is the Universe Mother Spirit who supplies the essential factor of the living plasm. From the Creative Daughter of the Infinite Spirit comes that energy spark which enlivens the body and presages the mind.

36:3.5 In the bestowal of life the Life Carriers transmit nothing of their personal natures, not even on those spheres where new orders of life are projected. At such times they simply initiate and transmit the spark of life, start the required revolutions of matter in accordance with the physical, chemical, and electrical specifications of the ordained plans and patterns. Life Carriers are living catalytic presences which agitate, organize, and vitalize the otherwise inert elements of the material order of existence.

36:3.6 The Life Carriers of a planetary corps are given a certain period in which to establish life on a new world, approximately one-half million years of the time of that planet. At the termination of this period, indicated by certain developmental attainments of the planetary life, they cease implantation efforts, and they may not subsequently add any thing new or supplemental to the life of that planet. *

36:3.7 During the ages intervening between life establishment and the emergence of human creatures of moral status, the Life Carriers are permitted to manipulate the life environment and otherwise favorably directionize the course of biologic evolution. And this they do for long periods of time.

36:3.8 When the Life Carriers operating on a new world have once succeeded in producing a being with will, with the power of moral decision and spiritual choice, then and there their work terminates—they are through; they may manipulate the evolving life no further. From this point forward the evolution of living things must proceed in accordance with the endowment of the inherent nature and tendencies which have already been imparted to, and established in, the planetary life formulas and patterns. The Life Carriers are not permitted to experiment or to interfere with will; they are not allowed to dominate or arbitrarily influence moral creatures.

36:3.9 Upon the arrival of a Planetary Prince they prepare to leave, though two of the senior carriers and twelve custodians may volunteer, by taking temporary renunciation vows, to remain indefinitely on the planet as advisers in the matter of the further development and conservation of the life plasm. Two such Sons and their twelve associates are now serving on Urantia." UB1955

 

[TulipBee]

Leviticus 19:31*- Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

Isaiah 8:19*- And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Deuteronomy 18:9-12*- When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. **(Read More...)

Leviticus 20:6*- And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 20:27*- A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.

Revelation 21:8*- But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Deuteronomy 18:14*- For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].

1 Chronicles 10:13-14*- So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it]; **(Read More...)

Deuteronomy 18:10*- There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

2 Kings 21:6*- And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

Deuteronomy 4:19*- And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14*- When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. **(Read More...)

Revelation 18:23*- And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Acts 16:16*- And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

 

[freelight]

No witches or wizards here..........

No witches or wizards here..........

Leviticus 19:31*- Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.

Isaiah 8:19*- And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

Deuteronomy 18:9-12*- When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. **(Read More...)

Leviticus 20:6*- And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 20:27*- A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood [shall be] upon them.

Revelation 21:8*- But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Deuteronomy 18:14*- For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so [to do].

1 Chronicles 10:13-14*- So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, [even] against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking [counsel] of [one that had] a familiar spirit, to enquire [of it]; **(Read More...)

Deuteronomy 18:10*- There shall not be found among you [any one] that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, [or] that useth divination, [or] an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

2 Kings 21:6*- And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

Deuteronomy 4:19*- And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, [even] all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Deuteronomy 18:9-14*- When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. **(Read More...)

Revelation 18:23*- And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

Acts 16:16*- And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:

Nice try.....but none of these OT passages have anything to do with the UB or its process of transmission since no 'witchcraft', 'sorcery' or 'divination' was involved.

Several members of this group who participated in the preliminary "contacts" which led up to the appearance of the Urantia Papers, had had considerable experience in the investigation of psychic phenomena. This group early arrived at the conclusion that the phenomena connected with the personality, who was later associated with the Urantia Papers, was in no way similar to any other well-known type of psychic performance - such as hypnosis, automatic writing, clairvoyance, trances, spirit mediumship, telepathy, or double personality.

See:

History of the Urantia Movement

Who wrote the UB?

Also a thorough study of the Jewish understanding of the above passages would be helpful, since the texts are not all that clear of what those various terms mean while much folklore, superstition and speculation have been associated with such. You may note that beneficent forms of divination are apparently allowed in the scriptural accounts, via the ephod, urim and thummim, casting of lots, etc. Jewish culture is somewhat more lenient towards divination of various forms if used for good than many fundamentalist Christians.

See: My Jewish Learning , Jewish Encyclopedia

If you're looking for witches, wizards or soothsayers that peep and mutter, you're in the wrong place

 

[TulipBee]

Nice try.....but none of these OT passages have anything to do with the UB or its process of transmission since no 'witchcraft', 'sorcery' or 'divination' was involved.



See:

History of the Urantia Movement

Who wrote the UB?

Also a thorough study of the Jewish understanding of the above passages would be helpful, since the texts are not all that clear of what those various terms mean while much folklore, superstition and speculation have been associated with such. You may note that beneficent forms of divination are apparently allowed in the scriptural accounts, via the ephod, urim and thummim, casting of lots, etc. Jewish culture is somewhat more lenient towards divination of various forms if used for good than many fundamentalist Christians.

See: My Jewish Learning , Jewish Encyclopedia

If you're looking for witches, wizards or soothsayers that peep and mutter, you're in the wrong place

you said medium and now you take it back, why?

 

[Caino]

The revelation of Jesus Christ on earth didn't agree with the scriptures that the Hebrews wrote about themselves. So they killed or tried to kill Jesus just like the same pigheaded religious people rejected the prophet's of old. Today, stubborn Christianity will become like the closed minded Jews, a museum to intolerance and fear based ignorance.

 

[TulipBee]

The revelation of Jesus Christ on earth didn't agree with the scriptures that the Hebrews wrote about themselves. So they killed or tried to kill Jesus just like the same pigheaded religious people rejected the prophet's of old. Today, stubborn Christianity will become like the closed minded Jews, a museum to intolerance and fear based ignorance.

the bible states the church will always stand, forever. the bible will always exist

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

Good morning my "UFO Aficionados."

 

[patrick jane]

The revelation of Jesus Christ on earth didn't agree with the scriptures that the Hebrews wrote about themselves. So they killed or tried to kill Jesus just like the same pigheaded religious people rejected the prophet's of old. Today, stubborn Christianity will become like the closed minded Jews, a museum to intolerance and fear based ignorance.

Good day

 

[patrick jane]

Freelight and Caino,

I'll keep this short and simple. The ub is spoiled baloney. I would trust it more if I knew it was written by Elmer Fudd.

Spoiled baloney is nasty - nasty bologna

 

[journey]

Zeke and whoever,

I've been researching God's Word for over 60 years and have no doubt about it. As a contrast, I have nothing but doubts about the flagship of the urantia UFO cult - the ub. In other words, I have no use for the ub.

 

[Caino]

EVOLUTION — GRADUAL OR EPISODIC

"The Urantia Papers were received in the mid 1930's when the concept that gradualism is the major mode of evolutionary change had become dogma for the great majority of paleontologists. Despite being against firmly entrenched current opinion, the Urantia Papers made this statement: "From era to era radically New species of animal life arise; they do not evolve as the result of the gradual accumulation of small variations; they appear as full-fledged and New orders of life, and they appear suddenly." There are not less than twenty five statements in The Urantia Book that cite the sudden appearance of radically New and different species of plant and animal life. Hence there can be no doubt that the book , while not rejecting gradualism as a means of adaptation, places complete emphasis on sudden and radical change as being a major tool for the achievement of evolutionary advance. There is a qualification to this assertion which states: "The sudden appearance of New species and diversified orders of living organisms is wholly biologic, strictly natural. There is nothing supernatural connected with these genetic mutations."

On the day before his revolutionary book "Origin of Species" was released in 1859, Charles Darwin received a letter from his friend, Thomas Henry Huxley, containing the warning; "You have loaded yourself with an unnecessary difficulty in adopting 'Natura non facit saitum' so unreservedly." This Latin phrase means that "nature does not take leaps." Huxley felt that natural selection required no postulate about rates of evolution, that it could function at varying, even very rapid, rates. However Darwin portrayed evolution as an orderly process, proceeding at virtually imperceptible rates. He argued that ancestors and their descendants must be connected by infinitely numerous transitional links forming the finest of graduated steps. There is almost no evidence in the geological record to support the concept of gradualism. Darwin admitted the imperfection of the geological record, and the extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists even today as the trade secret of paleontology. However a substantial group of scientists are now prepared to believe that Huxley was right, and that the theory of evolution and natural selection does not necessarily require gradual change. Hence it is gradualism, not Darwinism, that is being rejected. An alternative concept to gradualism is that evolution proceeds in two major modes, firstly phyletic transformation by which a population changes suddenly from one state to another, and secondly speciation by which variation is introduced into a new population. This concept was put forward by Eldridge and Gould in 1972, and although at first it received considerable opposition, the view that evolution can proceed by sudden changes is now widely held among paleontologists."

REFERENCES: Eldridge, N., and Gould, S.J. 1972. "Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism." in "Models in Paleobiology," ed. T.J.M. Schopf (Freeman, Cooper and Co. San Francisco); The Urantia Book, p.669.


58:6.2 "Although the evolution of vegetable life can be traced into animal life, and though there have been found graduated series of plants and animals which progressively lead up from the most simple to the most complex and advanced organisms, you will not be able to find such connecting links between the great divisions of the animal kingdom nor between the highest of the prehuman animal types and the dawn men of the human races. These so-called "missing links" will forever remain missing, for the simple reason that they never existed."

 

[Grosnick Marowbe]

I heard today is "Little Green Men Day." Have a nice Cosmic day Caino and Freelight.

 

[Caino]

The Atonement Theory

The Atonement Theory

2:6.3 The "richness of the goodness of God leads erring man to repentance." "Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights." "God is good; he is the eternal refuge of the souls of men." "The Lord God is merciful and gracious. He is long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth." "Taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who trusts him." "The Lord is gracious and full of compassion. He is the God of salvation."" He heals the brokenhearted and binds up the wounds of the soul. He is man's all-powerful benefactor."

2:6.4 The concept of God as a king-judge, although it fostered a high moral standard and created a law-respecting people as a group, left the individual believer in a sad position of insecurity respecting his status in time and in eternity. The later Hebrew prophets proclaimed God to be a Father to Israel; Jesus revealed God as the Father of each human being. The entire mortal concept of God is transcendently illuminated by the life of Jesus. Selflessness is inherent in parental love. God loves not like a father, but as a father. He is the Paradise Father of every universe personality.

2:6.5 Righteousness implies that God is the source of the moral law of the universe. Truth exhibits God as a revealer, as a teacher. But love gives and craves affection, seeks understanding fellowship such as exists between parent and child. Righteousness may be the divine thought, but love is a father's attitude. The erroneous supposition that the righteousness of God was irreconcilable with the selfless love of the heavenly Father, presupposed absence of unity in the nature of Deity and led directly to the elaboration of the atonement doctrine, which is a philosophic assault upon both the unity and the free-willness of God.

2:6.6 The affectionate heavenly Father, whose spirit indwells his children on earth, is not a divided personality—one of justice and one of mercy—neither does it require a mediator to secure the Father's favor or forgiveness. Divine righteousness is not dominated by strict retributive justice; God as a father transcends God as a judge.

2:6.7 God is never wrathful, vengeful, or angry. It is true that wisdom does often restrain his love, while justice conditions his rejected mercy. His love of righteousness cannot help being exhibited as equal hatred for sin. The Father is not an inconsistent personality; the divine unity is perfect. In the Paradise Trinity there is absolute unity despite the eternal identities of the co-ordinates of God.

2:6.8 God loves the sinner and hates the sin: such a statement is true philosophically, but God is a transcendent personality, and persons can only love and hate other persons. Sin is not a person. God loves the sinner because he is a personality reality (potentially eternal), while towards sin God strikes no personal attitude, for sin is not a spiritual reality; it is not personal; therefore does only the justice of God take cognizance of its existence. The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin. This attitude of the divine nature would apparently change if the sinner finally identified himself wholly with sin just as the same mortal mind may also fully identify itself with the indwelling spirit Adjuster. Such a sin-identified mortal would then become wholly unspiritual in nature (and therefore personally unreal) and would experience eventual extinction of being. Unreality, even incompleteness of creature nature, cannot exist forever in a progressingly real and increasingly spiritual universe.

2:6.9 Facing the world of personality, God is discovered to be a loving person; facing the spiritual world, he is a personal love; in religious experience he is both. Love identifies the volitional will of God. The goodness of God rests at the bottom of the divine free- willness—the universal tendency to love, show mercy, manifest patience, and minister forgiveness.