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[[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:The_eye_of_all_ur60.jpg|right|frame]] 104:2.1 [[Monotheism]] arose as a [[philosophic]] [[protest]] against the [[Contradiction|inconsistency]] of [[polytheism]]. It [[developed]] first through [[pantheon]] [[organizations]] with the departmentalization of [[supernatural]] [[activities]], then through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henotheism henotheistic] exaltation of one [[god]] above the many, and finally through the exclusion of all but the One God of final [[value]]. 104:2.2 [[Trinitarianism]] grows out of the [[experiential]] [[protest]] against the impossibility of conceiving the oneness of a deanthropomorphized [[solitary]] [[Deity]] of unrelated universe significance. Given a sufficient time, [[philosophy]] tends to [[abstract]] the [[personal]] [[qualities]] from the [[Deity]] [[concept]] of [[pure]] [[monotheism]], thus reducing this [[idea]] of an unrelated [[God]] to the [[status]] of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism pantheistic] [[Absolute]]. It has always been [[difficult]] to [[understand]] the [[personal]] [[nature]] of a [[God]] who has no [[personal]] [[relationships]] in [[equality]] with other and [[co-ordinate]] [[personal]] [[beings]]. [[Personality]] in [[Deity]] demands that such Deity exist in [[relation]] to other and [[equal]] personal [[Deity]]. 104:2.3 Through the [[recognition]] of the [[Trinity]] [[concept]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE mind of man] can [[hope]] to grasp something of the interrelationship of [[love]] and [[law]] in the [[time-space]] [[creations]]. Through [[spiritual]] [[faith]] man gains [[insight]] into the [[love]] of [[God]] but soon [[discovers]] that this [[spiritual]] [[faith]] has no [[influence]] on the [[ordained]] [[laws]] of the [[material]] [[universe]]. Irrespective of the firmness of man's [[belief]] in [[God]] as his [[Paradise]] [[Father]], expanding [[cosmic]] [[horizons]] demand that he also give [[recognition]] to the [[reality]] of [[Paradise]] [[Deity]] as [[universal]] [[law]], that he [[recognize]] the [[Trinity]] [[sovereignty]] extending outward from [[Paradise]] and [[overshadowing]] even the evolving [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_32 local universes] of the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_21 Creator Sons] and [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_17#17:6._THE_LOCAL_UNIVERSE_CREATIVE_SPIRITS Creative Daughters] of the [[three]] [[eternal]] [[persons]] whose [[deity]] [[union]] is the [[fact]] and [[reality]] and [[eternal]] [[Union|indivisibility]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]]. 104:2.4 And this selfsame [[Paradise Trinity]] is a real [[entity]]—not a [[personality]] but nonetheless a true and [[absolute]] [[reality]]; not a [[personality]] but nonetheless compatible with coexistent [[personalities]]—the personalities of [[the Father]], [[the Son]], and [[the Spirit]]. The [[Trinity]] is a supersummative [[Deity]] [[reality]] [[eventuating]] out of the conjoining of the [[three]] [[Paradise]] [[Deities]]. The [[qualities]], characteristics, and [[functions]] of the [[Trinity]] are not the [[simple]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum sum] of the [[attributes]] of the [[three]] [[Paradise]] [[Deities]]; [[Trinity]] [[functions]] are something [[unique]], [[original]], and not wholly [[predictable]] from an [[analysis]] of the [[attributes]] of [[Universal Father|Father]], [[Eternal Son|Son]], and [[Infinite Spirit|Spirit]]. 104:2.5 For example: [[The Master]], when on [[earth]], admonished his followers that [[justice]] is never a [[personal]] [[act]]; it is always a [[group]] [[function]]. Neither do [[the Gods]], as [[persons]], [[administer]] [[justice]]. But they [[perform]] this very [[function]] as a [[collective]] whole, as the [[Paradise Trinity]]. 104:2.6 The [[conceptual]] grasp of the [[Trinity]] [[association]] of [[Universal Father|Father]], [[Eternal Son|Son]], and [[Infinite Spirit|Spirit]] [[prepares]] the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_111#111:1._THE_MIND_ARENA_OF_CHOICE human mind] for the further presentation of certain other [[threefold]] [[relationships]]. [[Theological]] [[reason]] may be fully satisfied by the [[concept]] of the [[Paradise Trinity]], but [[philosophical]] and [[cosmological]] [[reason]] demand the [[recognition]] of the other [[triune]] [[associations]] of the [[First Source and Center]], those triunities in which the [[Infinite]] [[functions]] in various [[Impersonal|non-Father]] [[capacities]] of [[universal]] [[manifestation]]—the [[relationships]] of the [[God]] of [[force]], [[energy]], [[power]], [[causation]], [[reaction]], [[potentiality]], [[actuality]], [[gravity]], [[tension]], [[pattern]], [[principle]], and [[unity]]. <center>[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104 Go to Paper 104]</center> <center>[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center> [[Category:Paper 104 - Growth of the Trinity Concept]] [[Category: Deity]] [[Category: Trinity]] [[Category: Unity]]

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