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4:4.1 [[God]] is the only stationary, self-contained, and changeless [[being]] in the whole [[universe of universes]], having no outside, no beyond, no past, and no future. God is purposive [[energy]] ([[creative]] [[spirit]]) and [[absolute]] [[will]], and these are self-existent and [[universal]].
4:4.2 Since God is self-existent, he is [[absolute]]ly independent. The very [[identity]] of God is inimical to [[change]]. "I, the Lord, change not."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Malachi#Chapter_.3] God is immutable; but not until you achieve [[Paradise]] [[status]] can you even begin to [[understand]] how God can pass from [[simplicity]] to [[complexity]], from [[identity]] to variation, from [[quiescence]] to [[motion]], from [[infinity]] to [[Finite|finitude]], from the [[divine]] to the [[human]], and from [[unity]] to [[duality]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:3._TRINITIES_AND_TRIUNITIES triunity]. And God can thus modify the [[manifestations]] of his absoluteness because divine immutability does not imply immobility; God has will—he is [[will]].
4:4.3 God is the [[being]] of [[absolute]] self-[[determination]]; there are no [[limits]] to his [[universe]] [[reactions]] save those which are self-imposed, and his [[freewill]] [[acts]] are conditioned only by those divine [[qualities]] and perfect [[attributes]] which inherently characterize his [[eternal]] [[nature]]. Therefore is God [[Relationship|related]] to the [[universe]] as the being of final [[goodness]] plus a [[free will]] of [[creative]] [[infinity]].
4:4.4 The Father-[[Absolute]] is the [[creator]] of the [[Havona|central and perfect universe]] and the Father of all other [[Creator Sons|Creators]]. [[Personality]], [[goodness]], and numerous other characteristics, God shares with man and other beings, but infinity of will is his alone. God is limited in his [[creative]] [[acts]] only by the sentiments of his eternal nature and by the [[Mandate|dictates]] of his infinite [[wisdom]]. God [[personal]]ly chooses only that which is infinitely perfect, hence the supernal [[perfection]] of the [[central universe]]; and while the [[Creator Sons]] fully share his [[divinity]], even [[phases]] of his absoluteness, they are not altogether limited by that finality of wisdom which directs the Father's infinity of will. Hence, in the [[Paper 21 - The Paradise Creator Sons|Michael order of sonship]], [[creative]] [[free will]] becomes even more [[active]], wholly divine and well-nigh [[ultimate]], if not [[absolute]]. The Father is infinite and eternal, but to deny the [[possibility]] of his volitional self-limitation amounts to a denial of this very concept of his volitional absoluteness.
4:4.5 God's absoluteness pervades [[Paper 106 - Universe Levels of Reality|all seven levels of universe reality]]. And the whole of this absolute nature is subject to the [[relationship]] of the [[Creator]] to his universe [[creature]] [[family]]. Precision may characterize [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_10#10:5._FUNCTIONS_OF_THE_TRINITY trinitarian] [[justice]] in the [[universe of universes]], but in all his vast [[family]] [[relationship]] with the creatures of time the God of universes is [[governed]] by divine [[sentiment]]. First and last—eternally—the infinite God is a [[Father]]. Of all the possible titles by which he might appropriately be known, I have been instructed to portray the God of all [[creation]] as the [[Universal Father]].
4:4.6 In God the Father [[freewill]] [[performances]] are not ruled by [[power]], nor are they [[guided]] by [[intellect]] alone; the divine [[personality]] is defined as consisting in [[spirit]] and [[manifesting]] himself to the universes as [[love]]. Therefore, in all his personal [[relations]] with the creature personalities of the universes, the [[First Source and Center]] is always and consistently a loving Father. God is a Father in the highest sense of the term. He is eternally motivated by the perfect [[Ideal|idealism]] of divine [[love]], and that tender nature finds its strongest [[expression]] and greatest [[Pleasure|satisfaction]] in loving and being loved.
4:4.7 In [[science]], God is the First [[Cause]]; in [[religion]], the [[universal]] and loving [[Father]]; in [[philosophy]], the one being who exists by himself, not dependent on any other being for existence but beneficently conferring [[reality]] of [[existence]] on all [[things]] and upon all other [[beings]]. But it requires [[revelation]] to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent [[Unity]] of philosophy are the God of religion, full of [[mercy]] and [[goodness]] and pledged to [[effect]] the eternal [[survival]] of his [[children]] on [[earth]].
4:4.8 We crave the [[concept]] of the [[Infinite]], but we [[worship]] the [[experience]]-idea of God, our [[Omnipresence|anywhere]] and any-time capacity to grasp the [[personality]] and [[divinity]] factors of our highest concept of [[Deity]].
4:4.9 The [[consciousness]] of a victorious human life on [[earth]] is born of that [[creature]] [[faith]] which dares to [[challenge]] each recurring [[Event|episode]] of [[existence]] when confronted with the awful [[spectacle]] of human [[limitation]]s, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a [[Thought Adjuster|part]] of the [[Father]]-Absolute of the [[universe of universes]]. And that is "the victory which overcomes the world, even your [[faith]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_V]
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[[Category:Paper 4 - God's Relation to the Universe]]
4:4.1 [[God]] is the only stationary, self-contained, and changeless [[being]] in the whole [[universe of universes]], having no outside, no beyond, no past, and no future. God is purposive [[energy]] ([[creative]] [[spirit]]) and [[absolute]] [[will]], and these are self-existent and [[universal]].
4:4.2 Since God is self-existent, he is [[absolute]]ly independent. The very [[identity]] of God is inimical to [[change]]. "I, the Lord, change not."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Malachi#Chapter_.3] God is immutable; but not until you achieve [[Paradise]] [[status]] can you even begin to [[understand]] how God can pass from [[simplicity]] to [[complexity]], from [[identity]] to variation, from [[quiescence]] to [[motion]], from [[infinity]] to [[Finite|finitude]], from the [[divine]] to the [[human]], and from [[unity]] to [[duality]] and [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_104#104:3._TRINITIES_AND_TRIUNITIES triunity]. And God can thus modify the [[manifestations]] of his absoluteness because divine immutability does not imply immobility; God has will—he is [[will]].
4:4.3 God is the [[being]] of [[absolute]] self-[[determination]]; there are no [[limits]] to his [[universe]] [[reactions]] save those which are self-imposed, and his [[freewill]] [[acts]] are conditioned only by those divine [[qualities]] and perfect [[attributes]] which inherently characterize his [[eternal]] [[nature]]. Therefore is God [[Relationship|related]] to the [[universe]] as the being of final [[goodness]] plus a [[free will]] of [[creative]] [[infinity]].
4:4.4 The Father-[[Absolute]] is the [[creator]] of the [[Havona|central and perfect universe]] and the Father of all other [[Creator Sons|Creators]]. [[Personality]], [[goodness]], and numerous other characteristics, God shares with man and other beings, but infinity of will is his alone. God is limited in his [[creative]] [[acts]] only by the sentiments of his eternal nature and by the [[Mandate|dictates]] of his infinite [[wisdom]]. God [[personal]]ly chooses only that which is infinitely perfect, hence the supernal [[perfection]] of the [[central universe]]; and while the [[Creator Sons]] fully share his [[divinity]], even [[phases]] of his absoluteness, they are not altogether limited by that finality of wisdom which directs the Father's infinity of will. Hence, in the [[Paper 21 - The Paradise Creator Sons|Michael order of sonship]], [[creative]] [[free will]] becomes even more [[active]], wholly divine and well-nigh [[ultimate]], if not [[absolute]]. The Father is infinite and eternal, but to deny the [[possibility]] of his volitional self-limitation amounts to a denial of this very concept of his volitional absoluteness.
4:4.5 God's absoluteness pervades [[Paper 106 - Universe Levels of Reality|all seven levels of universe reality]]. And the whole of this absolute nature is subject to the [[relationship]] of the [[Creator]] to his universe [[creature]] [[family]]. Precision may characterize [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_10#10:5._FUNCTIONS_OF_THE_TRINITY trinitarian] [[justice]] in the [[universe of universes]], but in all his vast [[family]] [[relationship]] with the creatures of time the God of universes is [[governed]] by divine [[sentiment]]. First and last—eternally—the infinite God is a [[Father]]. Of all the possible titles by which he might appropriately be known, I have been instructed to portray the God of all [[creation]] as the [[Universal Father]].
4:4.6 In God the Father [[freewill]] [[performances]] are not ruled by [[power]], nor are they [[guided]] by [[intellect]] alone; the divine [[personality]] is defined as consisting in [[spirit]] and [[manifesting]] himself to the universes as [[love]]. Therefore, in all his personal [[relations]] with the creature personalities of the universes, the [[First Source and Center]] is always and consistently a loving Father. God is a Father in the highest sense of the term. He is eternally motivated by the perfect [[Ideal|idealism]] of divine [[love]], and that tender nature finds its strongest [[expression]] and greatest [[Pleasure|satisfaction]] in loving and being loved.
4:4.7 In [[science]], God is the First [[Cause]]; in [[religion]], the [[universal]] and loving [[Father]]; in [[philosophy]], the one being who exists by himself, not dependent on any other being for existence but beneficently conferring [[reality]] of [[existence]] on all [[things]] and upon all other [[beings]]. But it requires [[revelation]] to show that the First Cause of science and the self-existent [[Unity]] of philosophy are the God of religion, full of [[mercy]] and [[goodness]] and pledged to [[effect]] the eternal [[survival]] of his [[children]] on [[earth]].
4:4.8 We crave the [[concept]] of the [[Infinite]], but we [[worship]] the [[experience]]-idea of God, our [[Omnipresence|anywhere]] and any-time capacity to grasp the [[personality]] and [[divinity]] factors of our highest concept of [[Deity]].
4:4.9 The [[consciousness]] of a victorious human life on [[earth]] is born of that [[creature]] [[faith]] which dares to [[challenge]] each recurring [[Event|episode]] of [[existence]] when confronted with the awful [[spectacle]] of human [[limitation]]s, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a [[Thought Adjuster|part]] of the [[Father]]-Absolute of the [[universe of universes]]. And that is "the victory which overcomes the world, even your [[faith]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=1st_Letter_of_John#1st_Letter_of_John.2C_V]
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[[Category:Paper 4 - God's Relation to the Universe]]
