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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:13 am +0000
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| 56:10.20 (648.3) To finite man truth, beauty, and goodness embrace the full revelation of divinity reality. As this love-comprehension of Deity finds spiritual expression in the lives of God-knowing mortals, there are yielded the fruits of divinity: intellectual peace, social progress, moral satisfa... |
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Forum: General Urantia Book Discussion Topic: God's Will and Freewill |
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:57 am +0000
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| I believe the UB teaches that God's will is for his children to be happy, even joyful. The Papers tell us a great deal about happiness and contentment and their obstacles and those mind poisons which prevent or reduce our happiness. Good parents hope for their children's happiness and achievements a... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: By what means do the Celestials govern Urantia? |
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 5:30 am +0000
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| The Urantia Papers certainly do present a clearly defined set of "parameters" or constraints for the repercussions of evil, sin, iniquity, and rebellion. There are two (as I understand the text): time and distance of effect. Sin and evil effects are temporal and cannot survive time or pen... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Material in the Urantia Book surrounded by quotation marks |
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:08 pm +0000
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| I'm a very new (3-4 months or so) TUB reader, and I have a very simple (and perhaps simple-minded) question, but I did a quick search of this forum and didn't see where it was asked or answered: in reading TUB, I've encountered a number of quoted passages. I assume that they are quotations lifted f... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: By what means do the Celestials govern Urantia? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:36 am +0000
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| As to planetary governance and progressive evolution, we must remember that the primary method for celestial leadership to promote and guide planetary progress is by example and planetary centers of education and culture. Dalmatia and the Garden of Eden are how the celestials influence and guide mos... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: By what means do the Celestials govern Urantia? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:07 am +0000
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| The Urantia Papers certainly do present a clearly defined set of "parameters" or constraints for the repercussions of evil, sin, iniquity, and rebellion. There are two (as I understand the text): time and distance of effect. Sin and evil effects are temporal and cannot survive time or pene... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 5:51 am +0000
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| "Why should I love God?” So...perhaps we should first ask...Why should we love? Anybody???? Anybody at all? Or....What is love? Perhaps first things first? Regarding loving God...God is the very source of love. God's very nature is love personified. God is the source of all life and all person... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2023 5:40 am +0000
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| Consider the teaching/quote found in the Papers: “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.” How does understanding cultivate love? How does love deliver understanding? So much truth to discover in paradox! 8) The Urantia Papers teach us t... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 5:45 am +0000
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| So...according to 100:4.6 above we cannot love others or anyone because we should or are told we must. Can't happen. Including relatives (for sure!). I think perhaps, finally, I have come to love humanity in total. The UB has shown me the million year valient, evolutionary struggle to rise from cave... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 3:03 pm +0000
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| Thanks so much to you four who responded to my post (maryjo606, fanofVan, NNunn, and pethuel); I appreciate your thoughts and insights! I’ve finished reading the Topical Study at the link provided by pethuel (thanks for that!), and learned much about the Thought Adjusters to mull over and discuss w... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Young Jesus |
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:47 am +0000
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| More on the evolutionary and cultural value of family and the very important intersection of historical place and time and parents and family culture chosen for the Young Jesus. The family is the basic element and foundation for mortal evolutionary progress on the worlds of origin. From the family u... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Evolution |
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 5:28 am +0000
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| 81:6.23 (909.4) 8. Character of torchbearers. Social inheritance enables man to stand on the shoulders of all who have preceded him, and who have contributed aught to the sum of culture and knowledge. In this work of passing on the cultural torch to the next generation, the home will ever be the bas... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:26 am +0000
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| redryder posts: "Love, to my mind, is either earned or grows in one, based on an appreciation of the qualities or actions of another." The Master and the UB both teach us another form of and reason to love one another. The essence of the Jesusonian Gospel is the paternal affection and natu... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Does loving God come naturally to you? |
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 5:42 am +0000
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| Important questions and interesting topic redryder! It is my experience that this forum community welcomes all sincere inquiries from those who seek understanding by study of the universe reality perspective presented in the Papers. Asking questions which require thoughtful reflection and research i... |
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Forum: Questions & Answers Topic: Young Jesus |
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2023 11:42 am +0000
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| Thank you for the thought provoking information. As far being here ‘now’ I have to be honest about something. It seems the more I learn, the more clarity I achieve, the less I I want to be here. Priorities shift and finding communion with others becomes more rare. It has become quite the mix of exh... |
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