Urantia Paper 1—The Universal Father—Pt I: The Father's Name, The Reality of God

Cosmic Citizens! We have, in all these long years of the webcast, never undertaken a series on our Universal Father—he, without whom, no person or thing would exist. In an age on our world, when in developing countries few can imagine the reality of the God portrayed in the Abrahamic religions, we would take a few months, with an interruption here and there, to study the first five papers of The Urantia Book depicting Our Father, who was best revealed 2,000 years ago by the life and teachings of Joshua ben Joseph, Jesus of Nazareth. These first five papers are exclusively devoted to the First Person, First Source, and Central Reality of all creation. It is a new "pentateuch" of the Father revealed authoritatively, not to create a new dogma about God but, rather, to reveal the True God of Love who is our approachable Creator Parent. Not even in a scientific age but especially do we need a rebirth of new and personal religion—the fostering of each person's relationship with God.

This will be an engaging and, we hope, revealing study of the personality and character of God divested of the evolutionary "baggage" of the past millenia that tend to drive modern men and women away from relationship with God. The Urantia Book's portrayal, on the contrary, invites us in to closer relationship with Our Universal and Loving Father.

1:0.2 (21.2) The myriads of planetary systems were all made to be eventually inhabited by many different types of intelligent creatures, beings who could know God, receive the divine affection, and love him in return. The universe of universes is the work of God and the dwelling place of his diverse creatures. “God created the heavens and formed the earth; he established the universe and created this world not in vain; he formed it to be inhabited.”

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