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The '''Universal Father''' is the [[God]] of all [[creation]], the First Source and Center of all [[things]] and [[being]]s. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an [[infinite]] upholder. The truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: "You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the [[universe of universes|heaven of heavens]], with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with [[light]] as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain." Only the [[concept]] of the Universal Father--one God in the place of many gods--enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as [[divine]] creator and infinite controller.

The '''Universal Father''' is the [[God]] of all [[creation]], the First Source and Center of all [[things]] and [[being]]s. First think of God as a creator, then as a controller, and lastly as an [[infinite]] upholder. The truth about the Universal Father had begun to dawn upon mankind when the prophet said: "You, God, are alone; there is none beside you. You have created the heaven and the [[universe of universes|heaven of heavens]], with all their hosts; you preserve and control them. By the Sons of God were the universes made. The Creator covers himself with [[light]] as with a garment and stretches out the heavens as a curtain." Only the [[concept]] of the Universal Father--one God in the place of many gods--enabled mortal man to comprehend the Father as [[divine]] creator and infinite controller.

[[Urantia]] mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for [[human being]]s, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this [[destiny]], they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be [[universal]] in the [[material]] sense, unlimited in [[intellectual]] grasp, or final in [[spiritual]] [[experience]], but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and [[God-consciousness]].

[[Urantia]] mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for [[human being]]s, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this [[destiny]], they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be [[universal]] in the [[material]] sense, unlimited in [[intellectual]] grasp, or final in [[spiritual]] [[experience]], but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and [[God-consciousness]].

This is the true [[meaning]] of that divine command, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect," which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of [[time]] and [[space]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_1#PAPER_1:_THE_UNIVERSAL_FATHER]

This is the true [[meaning]] of that divine command, "Be you perfect, even as I am perfect," which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of [[time]] and [[space]].[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_1#PAPER_1:_THE_UNIVERSAL_FATHER]

 

[[Category: Religion]]

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[[Category: Cosmology]]

[[Category: Cosmology]]