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3:2.1 [[Grand Universe|All the universes]] know that "the Lord God omnipotent reigns."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Revelation#Chapter_19] The affairs of this world and other worlds are divinely [[Administration|supervised]]. "He does according to his will in the army of [[heaven]] and among the inhabitants of the [[earth]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Daniel#Chapter_4] It is eternally true, "there is no power but of God."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_XIII]
3:2.2 Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the [[divine]] [[nature]], it is [[literally]] true that "with God all things are possible."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_10] The long-drawn-out [[evolutionary]] [[processes]] of peoples, planets, and universes are under the perfect control of the [[Creator Sons|universe creators]] and [[Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe|administrators]] and unfold in accordance with the [[eternal]] [[purpose]] of the [[Universal Father]], proceeding in [[harmony]] and order and in keeping with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one lawgiver. He upholds the worlds in [[space]] and swings the universes around the endless [[circle]] of the eternal [[circuit]].
3:2.3 Of all the [[divine]] [[attributes]], his omnipotence, especially as it prevails in the [[material]] [[universe]], is the best [[understood]]. Viewed as an unspiritual [[phenomenon]], God is [[energy]]. This declaration of physical [[fact]] is predicated on the incomprehensible [[truth]] that the [[First Source and Center]] is the primal [[cause]] of the [[universal]] [[physical]] [[phenomena]] of all [[space]]. From this divine activity all physical energy and other material [[manifestations]] are derived. [[Light]], that is, light without [[heat]], is another of the nonspiritual manifestations of the Deities. And there is still another form of nonspiritual energy which is virtually [[unknown]] on [[Urantia]]; it is as yet unrecognized.
3:2.4 God controls all [[power]]; he has made "a way for the lightning"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.28]; he has ordained the [[circuits]] of all energy. He has decreed the [[time]] and [[manner]] of the manifestation of all forms of energy-[[matter]]. And all these [[things]] are held forever in his everlasting grasp—in the [[gravitational]] control centering on [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:4._PERIPHERAL_PARADISE nether Paradise]. The light and energy of the eternal God thus swing on forever around his [[majestic]] circuit, the endless but orderly procession of the starry hosts composing the [[universe of universes]]. All [[creation]] circles eternally around the [[Paradise]]-[[Personality]] center of all [[things]] and [[beings]].
3:2.5 The omnipotence of [[the Father]] pertains to the everywhere dominance of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106#106:6._ABSOLUTE_OR_SIXTH-PHASE_INTEGRATION absolute level], whereon the three energies, [[material]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]], are indistinguishable in close proximity to him—the Source of all things. Creature mind, being neither [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#2._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28_PHYSICAL_ENERGIES.29 Paradise monota] nor Paradise spirit, is not directly responsive to the [[Universal Father]]. God adjusts with the mind of imperfection—with [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] through the [[Thought Adjuster]]s.
3:2.6 The Universal Father is not a [[Temporal|transient]] [[force]], a shifting [[power]], or a [[Change|fluctuating]] [[energy]]. The power and [[wisdom]] of [[the Father]] are wholly adequate to cope with any and all universe [[Contingencies|exigencies]]. As the emergencies of [[human]] [[experience]] arise, he has foreseen them all, and therefore he does not [[react]] to the affairs of the universe in a detached way but rather in accordance with the dictates of eternal [[wisdom]] and in consonance with the [[mandates]] of [[infinite]] [[judgment]]. Regardless of [[appearances]], the power of God is not [[function]]ing in the [[universe]] as a [http://thomism.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/what-is-a-blind-force/ blind force].
3:2.7 Situations do arise in which it appears that emergency rulings have been made, that [[natural law]]s have been suspended, that misadaptations have been recognized, and that an effort is being made to rectify the situation; but such is not the case. Such [[concepts]] of [[God]] have their [[origin]] in the limited range of your [[viewpoint]], in the finiteness of your [[comprehension]], and in the circumscribed scope of your survey; such misunderstanding of God is due to the [[profound]] ignorance you enjoy regarding the [[existence]] of the higher laws of the realm, the magnitude of the [[Father]]'s [[character]], the [[infinity]] of his [[attributes]], and the [[fact]] of his [[free-will]]ness.
3:2.8 The planetary [[creatures]] of God's [[Thought Adjusters|spirit indwelling]], scattered hither and yon throughout the universes of space, are so nearly infinite in [[number]] and order, their [[intellects]] are so [[diverse]], their minds are so limited and sometimes so gross, their [[vision]] is so curtailed and localized, that it is almost impossible to formulate generalizations of [[law]] adequately [[expressive]] of the Father's infinite attributes and at the same time to any [[degree]] comprehensible to these created [[intelligences]]. Therefore, to you the creature, many of the [[acts]] of the all-powerful Creator seem to be [[arbitrary]], detached, and not infrequently [[heart]]less and cruel. But again I [[assure]] you that this is not true. God's doings are all [[purpose]]ful, [[intelligent]], [[wise]], [[kind]], and eternally considerate of the best [[good]], not always of an [[individual]] [[being]], an individual [[race]], an individual [[planet]], or even an individual [[universe]]; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest. [[Paper 52 - Planetary Mortal Epochs|In the epochs of time]] the welfare of the part may sometimes appear to differ from the welfare of the whole; in the circle of eternity such apparent [[differences]] are nonexistent.
3:2.9 We are all a part of the [[family]] of God, and we must therefore sometimes share in the family [[discipline]]. Many of the acts of God which so disturb and confuse us are the result of the decisions and final rulings of all-wisdom, empowering the [[Conjoint Actor]] to execute the choosing of the [[infallible]] will of the infinite mind, to enforce the [[decisions]] of the [[personality]] of [[perfection]], whose survey, [[vision]], and solicitude [[embrace]] the highest and eternal welfare of all his [[Master Universe|vast and far-flung creation]].
3:2.10 Thus it is that your detached, [[Fraction|sectional]], finite, gross, and highly [[materialistic]] [[viewpoint]] and the limitations inherent in the nature of your [[being]] constitute such a handicap that you are unable to see, comprehend, or know the [[wisdom]] and [[kindness]] of many of the [[divine]] acts which to you seem fraught with such crushing cruelty, and which seem to be characterized by such utter [[Apathy|indifference]] to the comfort and welfare, to the planetary [[happiness]] and personal [[Wealth|prosperity]], of your fellow creatures. It is because of the limits of human [[vision]], it is because of your circumscribed understanding and finite comprehension, that you misunderstand the motives, and pervert the [[purposes]], of God. But many things occur on the [[evolutionary]] worlds which are not the [[personal]] doings of the [[Universal Father]].
3:2.11 The divine omnipotence is perfectly co-ordinated with the other attributes of the [[personality]] of God. The power of God is, ordinarily, only limited in its universe spiritual [[manifestation]] by three conditions or situations:
*1. By the ''nature'' of God, especially by his infinite [[love]], by [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]].
*2. By the ''will'' of God, by his [[mercy]] [[ministry]] and fatherly [[relationship]] with the personalities of the universe.
*3. By the ''law'' of God, by the righteousness and [[justice]] of the eternal [[Paradise Trinity]].
3:2.12 God is unlimited in power, divine in nature, final in will, [[infinite]] in attributes, [[eternal]] in wisdom, and [[absolute]] in reality. But all these characteristics of the Universal Father are unified in Deity and universally expressed in the [[Paradise Trinity]] and in the [[Paper 18 - The Supreme Trinity Personalities|divine Sons of the Trinity]]. Otherwise, outside of Paradise and the central universe of [[Havona]], [[everything]] pertaining to God is limited by the evolutionary [[presence]] of [[the Supreme]], conditioned by the eventuating presence of the [[Ultimate]], and co-ordinated by the three existential [[The Three Absolutes|Absolutes—Deity, Universal, and Unqualified]]. And God's presence is thus limited because such is the will of God.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_3 Go to Paper 3]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 3 - The Attributes of God]]
3:2.1 [[Grand Universe|All the universes]] know that "the Lord God omnipotent reigns."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Revelation#Chapter_19] The affairs of this world and other worlds are divinely [[Administration|supervised]]. "He does according to his will in the army of [[heaven]] and among the inhabitants of the [[earth]]."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Daniel#Chapter_4] It is eternally true, "there is no power but of God."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans#The_Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Romans.2C_XIII]
3:2.2 Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the [[divine]] [[nature]], it is [[literally]] true that "with God all things are possible."[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gospel_of_Mark#Chapter_10] The long-drawn-out [[evolutionary]] [[processes]] of peoples, planets, and universes are under the perfect control of the [[Creator Sons|universe creators]] and [[Paper 33 - Administration of the Local Universe|administrators]] and unfold in accordance with the [[eternal]] [[purpose]] of the [[Universal Father]], proceeding in [[harmony]] and order and in keeping with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one lawgiver. He upholds the worlds in [[space]] and swings the universes around the endless [[circle]] of the eternal [[circuit]].
3:2.3 Of all the [[divine]] [[attributes]], his omnipotence, especially as it prevails in the [[material]] [[universe]], is the best [[understood]]. Viewed as an unspiritual [[phenomenon]], God is [[energy]]. This declaration of physical [[fact]] is predicated on the incomprehensible [[truth]] that the [[First Source and Center]] is the primal [[cause]] of the [[universal]] [[physical]] [[phenomena]] of all [[space]]. From this divine activity all physical energy and other material [[manifestations]] are derived. [[Light]], that is, light without [[heat]], is another of the nonspiritual manifestations of the Deities. And there is still another form of nonspiritual energy which is virtually [[unknown]] on [[Urantia]]; it is as yet unrecognized.
3:2.4 God controls all [[power]]; he has made "a way for the lightning"[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Job#Chapter_.28]; he has ordained the [[circuits]] of all energy. He has decreed the [[time]] and [[manner]] of the manifestation of all forms of energy-[[matter]]. And all these [[things]] are held forever in his everlasting grasp—in the [[gravitational]] control centering on [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_11#11:4._PERIPHERAL_PARADISE nether Paradise]. The light and energy of the eternal God thus swing on forever around his [[majestic]] circuit, the endless but orderly procession of the starry hosts composing the [[universe of universes]]. All [[creation]] circles eternally around the [[Paradise]]-[[Personality]] center of all [[things]] and [[beings]].
3:2.5 The omnipotence of [[the Father]] pertains to the everywhere dominance of the [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_106#106:6._ABSOLUTE_OR_SIXTH-PHASE_INTEGRATION absolute level], whereon the three energies, [[material]], [[mindal]], and [[spiritual]], are indistinguishable in close proximity to him—the Source of all things. Creature mind, being neither [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_42#2._UNIVERSAL_NONSPIRITUAL_ENERGY_SYSTEMS_.28_PHYSICAL_ENERGIES.29 Paradise monota] nor Paradise spirit, is not directly responsive to the [[Universal Father]]. God adjusts with the mind of imperfection—with [[Urantia]] [[mortals]] through the [[Thought Adjuster]]s.
3:2.6 The Universal Father is not a [[Temporal|transient]] [[force]], a shifting [[power]], or a [[Change|fluctuating]] [[energy]]. The power and [[wisdom]] of [[the Father]] are wholly adequate to cope with any and all universe [[Contingencies|exigencies]]. As the emergencies of [[human]] [[experience]] arise, he has foreseen them all, and therefore he does not [[react]] to the affairs of the universe in a detached way but rather in accordance with the dictates of eternal [[wisdom]] and in consonance with the [[mandates]] of [[infinite]] [[judgment]]. Regardless of [[appearances]], the power of God is not [[function]]ing in the [[universe]] as a [http://thomism.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/what-is-a-blind-force/ blind force].
3:2.7 Situations do arise in which it appears that emergency rulings have been made, that [[natural law]]s have been suspended, that misadaptations have been recognized, and that an effort is being made to rectify the situation; but such is not the case. Such [[concepts]] of [[God]] have their [[origin]] in the limited range of your [[viewpoint]], in the finiteness of your [[comprehension]], and in the circumscribed scope of your survey; such misunderstanding of God is due to the [[profound]] ignorance you enjoy regarding the [[existence]] of the higher laws of the realm, the magnitude of the [[Father]]'s [[character]], the [[infinity]] of his [[attributes]], and the [[fact]] of his [[free-will]]ness.
3:2.8 The planetary [[creatures]] of God's [[Thought Adjusters|spirit indwelling]], scattered hither and yon throughout the universes of space, are so nearly infinite in [[number]] and order, their [[intellects]] are so [[diverse]], their minds are so limited and sometimes so gross, their [[vision]] is so curtailed and localized, that it is almost impossible to formulate generalizations of [[law]] adequately [[expressive]] of the Father's infinite attributes and at the same time to any [[degree]] comprehensible to these created [[intelligences]]. Therefore, to you the creature, many of the [[acts]] of the all-powerful Creator seem to be [[arbitrary]], detached, and not infrequently [[heart]]less and cruel. But again I [[assure]] you that this is not true. God's doings are all [[purpose]]ful, [[intelligent]], [[wise]], [[kind]], and eternally considerate of the best [[good]], not always of an [[individual]] [[being]], an individual [[race]], an individual [[planet]], or even an individual [[universe]]; but they are for the welfare and best good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest. [[Paper 52 - Planetary Mortal Epochs|In the epochs of time]] the welfare of the part may sometimes appear to differ from the welfare of the whole; in the circle of eternity such apparent [[differences]] are nonexistent.
3:2.9 We are all a part of the [[family]] of God, and we must therefore sometimes share in the family [[discipline]]. Many of the acts of God which so disturb and confuse us are the result of the decisions and final rulings of all-wisdom, empowering the [[Conjoint Actor]] to execute the choosing of the [[infallible]] will of the infinite mind, to enforce the [[decisions]] of the [[personality]] of [[perfection]], whose survey, [[vision]], and solicitude [[embrace]] the highest and eternal welfare of all his [[Master Universe|vast and far-flung creation]].
3:2.10 Thus it is that your detached, [[Fraction|sectional]], finite, gross, and highly [[materialistic]] [[viewpoint]] and the limitations inherent in the nature of your [[being]] constitute such a handicap that you are unable to see, comprehend, or know the [[wisdom]] and [[kindness]] of many of the [[divine]] acts which to you seem fraught with such crushing cruelty, and which seem to be characterized by such utter [[Apathy|indifference]] to the comfort and welfare, to the planetary [[happiness]] and personal [[Wealth|prosperity]], of your fellow creatures. It is because of the limits of human [[vision]], it is because of your circumscribed understanding and finite comprehension, that you misunderstand the motives, and pervert the [[purposes]], of God. But many things occur on the [[evolutionary]] worlds which are not the [[personal]] doings of the [[Universal Father]].
3:2.11 The divine omnipotence is perfectly co-ordinated with the other attributes of the [[personality]] of God. The power of God is, ordinarily, only limited in its universe spiritual [[manifestation]] by three conditions or situations:
*1. By the ''nature'' of God, especially by his infinite [[love]], by [[truth]], [[beauty]], and [[goodness]].
*2. By the ''will'' of God, by his [[mercy]] [[ministry]] and fatherly [[relationship]] with the personalities of the universe.
*3. By the ''law'' of God, by the righteousness and [[justice]] of the eternal [[Paradise Trinity]].
3:2.12 God is unlimited in power, divine in nature, final in will, [[infinite]] in attributes, [[eternal]] in wisdom, and [[absolute]] in reality. But all these characteristics of the Universal Father are unified in Deity and universally expressed in the [[Paradise Trinity]] and in the [[Paper 18 - The Supreme Trinity Personalities|divine Sons of the Trinity]]. Otherwise, outside of Paradise and the central universe of [[Havona]], [[everything]] pertaining to God is limited by the evolutionary [[presence]] of [[the Supreme]], conditioned by the eventuating presence of the [[Ultimate]], and co-ordinated by the three existential [[The Three Absolutes|Absolutes—Deity, Universal, and Unqualified]]. And God's presence is thus limited because such is the will of God.
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_3 Go to Paper 3]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 3 - The Attributes of God]]
