God’s Relation to the Universe

4:3.1All too long has man thought of God as one like him­self. God is not, never was, and never will be jeal­ous of man or any other be­ing in the uni­verse of uni­verses. Know­ing that the Cre­ator Son in­tended man to be the mas­ter­piece of the plan­e­tary cre­ation, to be the ruler of all the earth, the sight of his be­ing dom­i­nated by his own baser pas­sions, the spec­ta­cle of his bow­ing down be­fore idols of wood, stone, gold, and self­ish am­bi­tion—these sor­did scenes stir God and his Sons to be jeal­ous for man, but never of him.

4:3.2The eter­nal God is in­ca­pable of wrath and anger in the sense of these hu­man emo­tions and as man un­der­stands such re­ac­tions. These sen­ti­ments are mean and de­spi­ca­ble; they are hardly wor­thy of be­ing called hu­man, much less di­vine; and such at­ti­tudes are ut­terly for­eign to the per­fect na­ture and gra­cious char­ac­ter of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther.

4:3.3Much, very much, of the dif­fi­culty which Uran­tia mor­tals have in un­der­stand­ing God is due to the far-reach­ing con­se­quences of the Lu­cifer re­bel­lion and the Cali­gas­tia be­trayal. On worlds not seg­re­gated by sin, the evo­lu­tion­ary races are able to for­mu­late far bet­ter ideas of the Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther; they suf­fer less from con­fu­sion, dis­tor­tion, and per­ver­sion of con­cept.

4:3.4God re­pents of noth­ing he has ever done, now does, or ever will do. He is all-wise as well as all-pow­er­ful. Man’s wis­dom grows out of the tri­als and er­rors of hu­man ex­pe­ri­ence; God’s wis­dom con­sists in the un­qual­i­fied per­fec­tion of his in­fi­nite uni­verse in­sight, and this di­vine fore­knowl­edge ef­fec­tively di­rects the cre­ative free will.

4:3.5The Uni­ver­sal Fa­ther never does any­thing that causes sub­se­quent sor­row or re­gret, but the will crea­tures of the plan­ning and mak­ing of his Cre­ator per­son­al­i­ties in the out­ly­ing uni­verses, by their un­for­tu­nate choos­ing, some­times oc­ca­sion emo­tions of di­vine sor­row in the per­son­al­i­ties of their Cre­ator par­ents. But though the Fa­ther nei­ther makes mis­takes, har­bors re­grets, nor ex­pe­ri­ences sor­rows, he is a be­ing with a fa­ther’s af­fec­tion, and his heart is un­doubt­edly grieved when his chil­dren fail to at­tain the spir­i­tual lev­els they are ca­pa­ble of reach­ing with the as­sis­tance which has been so freely pro­vided by the spir­i­tual-at­tain­ment plans and the mor­tal-as­cen­sion poli­cies of the uni­verses.

4:3.6The in­fi­nite good­ness of the Fa­ther is be­yond the com­pre­hen­sion of the fi­nite mind of time; hence must there al­ways be af­forded a con­trast with com­par­a­tive evil (not sin) for the ef­fec­tive ex­hi­bi­tion of all phases of rel­a­tive good­ness. Per­fec­tion of di­vine good­ness can be dis­cerned by mor­tal im­per­fec­tion of in­sight only be­cause it stands in con­trastive as­so­ci­a­tion with rel­a­tive im­per­fec­tion in the re­la­tion­ships of time and mat­ter in the mo­tions of space.

4:3.7The char­ac­ter of God is in­finitely super­hu­man; there­fore must such a na­ture of di­vin­ity be per­son­al­ized, as in the di­vine Sons, be­fore it can even be faith-grasped by the fi­nite mind of man.