Fathers

Jesus stated that a true family is founded on the following seven facts: 142:7.5-12

In the Urantia Book

# Security and pleasure. True fathers take great pleasure in providing for the needs of their children.

# Companionship and loyalty. The affectionate father holds intimate and loving intercourse with his children.

# Provision for the future. Temporal fathers like to leave an inheritance for their sons.

Children need fathers as well as mothers, and fathers need this parental experience as much as do mothers. 47:1.6
The child must derive his first impressions of the universe from the mother’s care; he is wholly dependent on the earthly father for his first ideas of the heavenly Father. (177:2.5,7)
disciples must love gospel more than his father or mother 150:4.3 171:2.2
The earliest races gave little credit to the father, looking upon the child as coming altogether from the mother. 84:2.4
become the head of a human family is a highly educational and disciplinary responsibility 126:2.2
It is intended that mortals who start out from an inhabited world have the experience of recognizing seven fathers: 51:6.6-13
# The biologic father — the father in the flesh.
# The father of the realm — the Planetary Adam.
# The father of the spheres — the System Sovereign.
# The Most High Father — the Constellation Father.

Fathers are not like judges, enemies, or creditors. Real families are built upon tolerance, patience, and forgiveness. 142:7.11

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

Sparrows fall; hairs of your head are numbered 150:4.3 — Mt 10:29-31; Lk 12:6-7.
No peace, but sorrow on earth 150:4.3 — Mt 10:34-37a; Lk 12:51-53.
Love the gospel more than family 150:4.3 — Lk 14:26.