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4:2.5 God is not [[personal]]ly [[Presence|present]] in nature or in any of the [[forces]] of [[nature]], for the [[phenomenon]] of nature is the superimposition of the imperfections of [[progressive]] [[evolution]] and, sometimes, the [[consequences]] of insurrectionary [[rebellion]], upon the Paradise [[foundations]] of God's [[universal]] law. As it appears on such a world as [[Urantia]], nature can never be the adequate [[expression]], the true representation, the faithful portrayal, of an all-wise and infinite God.

4:2.5 God is not [[personal]]ly [[Presence|present]] in nature or in any of the [[forces]] of [[nature]], for the [[phenomenon]] of nature is the superimposition of the imperfections of [[progressive]] [[evolution]] and, sometimes, the [[consequences]] of insurrectionary [[rebellion]], upon the Paradise [[foundations]] of God's [[universal]] law. As it appears on such a world as [[Urantia]], nature can never be the adequate [[expression]], the true representation, the faithful portrayal, of an all-wise and infinite God.

4:2.6 Nature, on your world, is a qualification of the laws of perfection by the evolutionary plans of the local universe. What a travesty to [[worship]] nature because it is in a limited, qualified sense pervaded by [[God]]; because it is a [[phase]] of the [[universal]] and, therefore, [[divine]] [[power]]! Nature also is a [[manifestation]] of the unfinished, the incomplete, the imperfect outworkings of the development, [[growth]], and progress of a universe [[experiment]] in [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL cosmic evolution].

4:2.6 Nature, on your world, is a qualification of the laws of perfection by the evolutionary plans of the local universe. What a travesty to [[worship]] nature because it is in a limited, qualified sense pervaded by [[God]]; because it is a [[phase]] of the [[universal]] and, therefore, [[divine]] [[power]]! Nature also is a [[manifestation]] of the unfinished, the incomplete, the imperfect outworkings of the development, [[growth]], and progress of a universe [[experiment]] in [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_118#118:8._CONTROL_AND_OVERCONTROL cosmic evolution].

4:2.7 The apparent defects of the natural world are not indicative of any such corresponding defects in the [[character]] of [[God]]. Rather are such [[observed]] imperfections merely the inevitable stop-[[moments]] in the exhibition of the ever-moving reel of infinity [[Film|picturization]]. It is these very defect-interruptions of perfection-[[continuity]] which make it possible for the [[finite]] mind of [[material]] man to catch a fleeting glimpse of divine [[reality]] in [[time and space]]. The material manifestations of [[divinity]] appear defective to the [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|evolutionary mind of man]] only because mortal man persists in viewing the [[phenomena]] of nature through natural eyes, [[human]] [[vision]] unaided by [[morontia mota]] or by [[revelation]], its compensatory substitute on the [[Paper 49 - The Inhabited Worlds|worlds of time]].

4:2.7 The apparent defects of the natural world are not indicative of any such corresponding defects in the [[character]] of [[God]]. Rather are such [[observed]] imperfections merely the inevitable stop-[[moments]] in the exhibition of the ever-moving reel of infinity [[Film|picturization]]. It is these very defect-interruptions of perfection-[[continuity]] which make it possible for the [[finite]] mind of [[material]] man to catch a fleeting glimpse of divine [[reality]] in [[time and space]]. The material manifestations of [[divinity]] appear defective to the [[Adjutant Mind Spirits|evolutionary mind of man]] only because mortal man persists in viewing the [[phenomena]] of nature through natural eyes, [[human]] [[vision]] unaided by [[morontia mota]] or by [[revelation]], its compensatory substitute on the [[Paper 49 - The Inhabited Worlds|worlds of time]].

4:2.8 And nature is marred, her beautiful face is scarred, her features are seared, by the [[rebellion]], the misconduct, the misthinking of the myriads of [[creatures]] who are a part of nature, but who have contributed to her disfigurement in time. No, nature is not [[God]]. Nature is not an object of [[worship]].

4:2.8 And nature is marred, her beautiful face is scarred, her features are seared, by the [[rebellion]], the misconduct, the misthinking of the myriads of [[creatures]] who are a part of nature, but who have contributed to her disfigurement in time. No, nature is not [[God]]. Nature is not an object of [[worship]].

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