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God is not personally present either in nature or in any of the forces of nature 4:2.5 131:1.5

the creation of energy and life is the prerogative of God; both flow into all creation 42:1.5

In the Urantia Book

All men are children of God (2:5.4) (40:6) (99:5.5)

    Creator Sons are God in his local universes (33:1.4) | Michael of Nebadon:description

    He is literally present in Paradise (11:1)

      Divine qualities are perfectly unified in God (44:7.4)

      • God, as a superperson, eventuates; God, as a person, creates; God, as a preperson, fragments into Adjusters 30:1.99
      • The Urantia Book offers a document, the 97th, on the evolution of the concept of God 97 5:4.9-13 5:5.12 142:3
      • in God's relationship with the local universes it seems that he withdraws from the activity in favor of the created beings and Creators of him, but there is also a real, literal and personal participation on God's part 32:4
      • God functions not only in parental capacities, but also in non-Father capacities such as God's relationships of force, energy, power, causality, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity, tension, the archetype, the principle and the unit 104:2.6

      God Fragments are Thought Adjusters | Thought Adjusters

        Term “God”

        • always denotes personality 0:2
        • for the religious person it means the approach to the supreme reality 100:3.2
        • The idea of the father is the highest human concept of God 2:0.1 2:5.9 196:3.35
        • The word God cannot be defined and represents the infinite concept of the Father, but since the word Father can be partially defined, it can be used to represent the human concept of the divine Father 0:2.9 1:7.1 169:4.7
        • God is meant to be understood as the reality of values, the substance of meanings, and the life of truth 5:4.2
        • theological definitions of God must change with each age 5:5.12

        Also known as | Deity:also known as; Universal Father:also known as

        Consciousness of God (0:2.2) (5:2) (8:5) | spiritual communion

        • God consciousness is best discovered in communion with the Adjuster 5:2.3
        • for Amenemope it was the determining factor in all conduct 95:4.2
        • The experience of God consciousness remains the same from generation to generation 5:5.12
        • God-consciousness must consist of mind-consciousness — understanding of the idea of God, soul-consciousness — understanding of the ideal of God, and spirit-consciousness — understanding of the spiritual reality of God. The unification of these understandings gives an understanding of the personality of God 5:5.11
        • God consciousness is indispensable for true progress 94:6.12 100:3.6
        • it is the inevitable result of consecration to the will of the Father 5:1.6
        • God consciousness is equivalent to the integration of the self in the universe and in its highest levels of spiritual reality 196:3.35
        • The secret of the incomparable religious life of Jesus was the awareness of the presence of God 196:0.10
        • Mysticism, as a technique for cultivating awareness of God's presence, is praiseworthy, but if it leads to social isolation and religious fanaticism, it is almost reprehensible 91:7.1
        • No human language possesses a word that can be used to designate that “sensation,” “feeling,” “intuition,” or “experience” that we have chosen to call God-consciousness 103:1.6
        • God consciousness is the ultimate achievement of the human mind 71:7.13
        • we can attain the perfection of God consciousness 1:0.5
        • presence of God
        • the presence of God is most discerned when fraternizing with the Adjuster, and an example of this attunement is the fruits of the spirit and the desire to do the will of the Father 5:2.4-6 71:4.15
        • the degree of God's presence in a part of the universe is determined by mass loyalty to God 3:1.10-11 13:4.3-5
        • The mind presence of Deity is determined by the depth of individual intellectual experience and by the evolutionary level of the personality, by the spiritual capacity of receptivity and by the degree of consecration to doing the divine will 5:2.1
        • the Master Spirits act so that the spiritual presence of the Deities is differential 13:4.3
        • The factor that determines the differential of the spiritual presence exists in our own heart and in our own mind. The spirit of divinity thus becomes humbly obedient to our choices 13:4.5
        • Social consciousness is not inalienable like God consciousness 16:9.4
        • It is not so important to know the fact of God, as to develop more and more the ability to feel the presence of God 155:6.12
        • living as if in the presence of God favors spiritual growth 100:1.8
        • man is seldom aware of God's presence (5:2.4,5)
        • the consciousness of God is more real than the consciousness that the neighbor exists 16:9.4
        • God consciousness resides in the inner spirit (196:3.23,25)
        • One day we will see God face to face 5:1.9

        Finding God | faith; spiritual growth

        • to approach the knowledge of God, man must consecrate all his gifts 1:6.5
        • man's inability to approach God is due to our finitude, not to an attitude distant from the Father 5:1
        • the race to understand God begins with recognizing the divinity of the Creator Son 0:8.9
        • God can be believed because of human experience or revelation of truth 101:2.6
        • for a long time, for an ascending creature it is only possible to locate the Father through faith 32:3.6 101:8.1 102:6.5 | faith
        • we will all be drawn to the Father by the rebound impulse of the Thought Adjusters 56:4.1
        • recognizing truth, beauty and goodness, man must develop the recognition of a God of love and then progress to the realization of the Supreme 56:6.3
        • God cannot be found through science 1:2.7 42:1.3 133:6.7
        • choosing the will of the Father is the spiritual discovery of the Father 111:5.6
        • if we really want to find God, the consciousness of the Supreme must be born in our mind 117:6.2
        • the desire to find God is evidence of having found him 130:8.2 131:10.4 195:6.16
        • we must discern God through the creation of him and the revelations of the Sons of him 1:5.3
        • man achieves divine union through progressive and reciprocal spiritual communion, in accordance with the divine will 1:7.2
        • failure in the Deity adventure remains in the universes; the second attempt is always successful 25:8.9 26:8.3-5
        • faith reveals God in the soul 101:2.10
        • there are few who have managed to find God in Paradise 11:1.3
        • God can be found by submission to the spirit | submission
        • God cannot be revealed to those who do not seek it, they must have a hunger for the truth as a result of life experiences or contact with those who know God 132:7.2
        • God as Father has priority over all phases of Deity 4:4.5-6 54:6.2 196:3.35
        • God cannot be plural for personality, for whoever worships God, God is one 56:4.4-5
        • God is always a reality of personal experience 102:4.3
        • God is always accessible; he is not hidden 1:3.3 1:5.3 3:0.2 5:1.8 131:1.5 131:2.4
        • The divine presence that can be enjoyed by anyone at any given time is limited only by that creature's ability to receive and discern spiritual realities 1:4.5-6 32:4.7
        • the sublime search for God is the supreme adventure, the greatest experience in human existence 1:0.6 117:6.9
        • he who has seen a Creator Son has seen God 0:8.9 32:3.6 107:0.4
        • he who has seen Jesus has seen God 157:6.13 180:3.9 182:1.9
        • This is why the day John Mark spent alone with Jesus is called “the day a young man spent with God” 177:1.3
        • when a human being finds God he will be driven to seek loving service with his less enlightened fellows 102:3.4
        • God's infinity separates him from direct communication with finite beings 2:1.6
        • approaching God is the understanding of reality, it is identity with reality, self-realization 196:3.3
        • the discovery of the Universal Father is the mortal's fifth jubilee, the fifth major event in a mortal's life 27:7.8
        • when God is encountered, a oneness with divinity is experienced through the cosmic mind 56:3.6
        • one way to learn to love God is to first learn to love the brothers 155:3.4
        • the man looks for a friend who happens to already live inside his heart 3:1.4
        • Man's closest approach to God is through love 3:4.7
        • can be achieved by seeking superhuman help to resolve conflicts 76:2.8 103:2.4
        • the labyrinth of superstition, tradition, and materialistic tendencies stand in the way of meeting God 102:7.6
        • no one goes to God except through Michael 0:8.1-9 180:3.7
        • when a discouraged soul sincerely seeks God, there is nothing that can hold him in the bondage of his darkness, sooner or later he will free himself from the chains that bind him 130:1.2
        • it is our inherent limitations that determine when we will see God 5:1.1-2
        • it is our thoughts, not our feelings, that lead us to God 101:1.3
        • paternal and maternal experience is indispensable to find God 45:6.4
        • the pure in heart will see God 131:1.6
        • seeking God is seeking everything, it is the greatest experience of human existence 117:6.9
        • seeking God makes us like him 133:4.9
        • to attain the presence of God, a sevenfold approach to Deity has been established in the universe, beginning with the Creator Sons, rising to the Ancients of Days, and ultimately attaining the Universal Father 0:8.1-9
        • The evolving soul does not become divine by what it does, but by what it strives to do 48:7.24
        • Deity is more than spirit, but the spiritual approach to God is the only possible one 102:4.4
        • those who seek God with all their hearts will find him 131:2.9 131:8.5 132:7.1-2
        • We find God through the directions of spiritual insight, through love of beauty, pursuit of truth, fidelity to duty, and worship of divine goodness 1:3.3 195:5.14
        • to find God, man has no need to go beyond his own inner experience of him, it is enough with the contemplation of the soul of the inner spiritual reality 5:0.1
        • we know God because we trust him 102:1.5
        • each achievement in the evolutionary progress of a world or group of worlds is accompanied by a growth in the realization of God to the stages of light and life that culminate in the realization of the Supreme (56:7.1-2,5) 142:2.2-4 142:3 159:4

        God’s nature (2) | beauty; goodness; justice:divine justice; mercy; omnipotence; omniscience; truth

        God and man

        • Man has been created in the image of God 1:3.1 3:4.7 6:5.7 7:4.4 10:3.1 32:2.8 74:7.20 92:5.1 117:3.5
        • we still show some willingness to bargain with God 87:6.17
        • A person can only begin to understand the unity of God through the personality approach 1:5.11
        • Great things happen when man partners with God 132:7.9
        • God is not only the one who determines destiny; he is the eternal destiny of man 5:4.3
        • misconceptions about God 1:2.2 4:5 12:7.6 102:6.3 188:4.8 (188:5.1,11) 196:3.24
        • ancient tribes committed many atrocities executed in the name of God 70:1.15
        • everything unusual was attributed to God's personal intervention 75:4.8
        • God is not a slave subject to habits (12:7.4,6)
        • It was believed that God was jealous of man, but the reality is that God is jealous for man, not of man 4:3.1
        • God is not a cosmic accident 2:1.4
        • The error of pantheism is to consider that since God does not have a body, he therefore is not a person, but the reality is that the personality does not require a body 1:5.12
        • Ancient belief stated that God was one of great wrath and intense fury 142:2
        • Experiencing God may be totally valid, but the discourse on God is divergent and sometimes fallacious 103:8.2
        • God is never the victim of attitudinal antagonisms 2:4.3
        • nothing can substitute for God in human society 195:8.6
        • God's revelation is always partial, relative and progressive 56:9.7 142:2.2
        • revelators can only explain God with the help of Adjusters and the Spirit of Truth 2:0.3
        • the soul concludes that man has no right not to believe in God 101:1.7 101:9.3
        • to understand God one must explore the universal facts 102:6.6
        • For science, God is a possibility; for psychology, a desirable thing; for philosophy, a probability; for religion, a certainty 102:6.8

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          DeityFirst CauseI AMInfiniteSupreme RulersUniversal Father
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