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Questions and Answers: PAPER 10 |
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CEDOMIL
VUGRINCIC, M.D., Ph.D. |
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HOW
WOULD JESUS WALK THE DIVINE TALK ? During sojourn on Urantia the
man’s soul passes through a short and intense test during its initial life of material
existence. On the mansion worlds and up
the local system, constellation, and local universe of Nebadon, the man
traverses the morontia phases of its ascension. On the training of the
superuniverse the man passes through true spirit stages of progression and
prepares for eventual transit to central universe of Havona, where on its
seven circuits, man as the experiential, intellectual and spiritual creature,
continue to accomplish very definite tasks on each of these Havona’s spheres. Life on the divine worlds of
the central universe of Havona is so rich, complete and replete, that it
wholly transcends the human concepts of anything that created being could
possibly experience on the evolutionary worlds. The social and economic
activities of this eternal creation are entirely dissimilar to the occupations of material
creatures living on the evolutionary world like Urantia, that even the technique of Havona
thought is unlike to the process of thinking of Urantian’s.
***** The question, that remains for
man to answer, is: “What is for the evolutionary man to do, to “walk the cosmic talk”, and
to be saved from the grasps of the material evolutionary mortal
pseudo-reality? How can the man earn the eternal life and the way to the
central universe of Havona and
*** The way of man’s salvation has
been repeatedly revealed to man by the Father’s Sons, and all down through the ages
have these cosmic revelations saved faithful God’s children, while judging the faithless in
God. By faith, 6,000 years ago, was
the Abraham justified and made aware of salvation by the teachings of
Melchizedek. 4,000 years ago Moses was
given Ten Commandments to take to the faithless and materially oriented
children of Jesus, the Son of God and the
son of man has, 2,000 years ago, made the salvation by faith more real and
acceptable for man to understand. The Christ Michael of Nebadon has restated
the need for men to seek their Creator, the one God of all and in all, and to
follow the way to their Father through their faith and the unity of all men,
planetary and cosmic. In this age the planetary man
is facing the same challenges, and needs to choose again between the worship
of the “golden calf” of this faithless material and sensual world, while
drowning further in his ignorance and the lack of will to know the God the
Father, or to follow in His Son’s footsteps,
find his God and earn the fruits of the eternal life. So, to answer the above
question, in order to be saved, the evolutionary Urantia man needs to follow
the teachings of God’s Sons. The Christ Michael of Nebadon, the Son of God
and the Creator Son of this local universe, incarnated in Jesus two thousand
years ago as the son of man, has stated : “When men and women ask what
they should do to be saved, they first need to know that they need to believe in
the gospel of Father’s kingdom (in God as Creator of universe, and the
universe laws, which govern also the evolutionary planets and its creatures). The faith in God is the only
way for man to receive Father’s divine forgiveness (of sins). By faith will the man
recognize the indwelling spirit of God, whose acceptance will make the man become the son of God.
This was stated well in the scriptures: ‘My soul shall be joyful in
the love of my God, for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation and has covered
me with the robe of His righteousness.’ ‘Take away the filthy rags of
self-righteousness and clothe my son with the robe of divine righteousness and
eternal salvation.’ It is forever true that ‘the
JUST (man) shall LIVE BY FAITH’. Man’s salvation (spiritual
self-elevation) is Father’s gift to man. The man’s entrance into the
Father’s kingdom of heaven is wholly free, but the man’s growth and progress in God’s
grace is dependent upon man’s continuance therein. Acceptance by faith on man’s
part makes the man the partaker of God’s divine nature, a son or daughter of God, and
by this same faith will the man be eternally advanced in the way of God’s progressive
and divine perfection. You cannot buy salvation, nor
you can earn righteousness. Salvation is the gift of God
to man, and righteousness is the natural grown fruit of the spirit-born sons of God,
ascending in the kingdom of heaven. The man will not be saved
because he lives a righteous life; rather it is that the man lives righteous life because
his soul is being saved, while recognizing his sonship with God and the gift
of eternal life given to man by the spirit of God. Righteous man feels supreme
delight having faith in the kingdom of heaven, while serving his divine
purpose (dharma, man’s life pattern or “duty” blueprint) while sojourning on
earth. When the man begins to believe
in the gospel of heaven, which is the revelation of the goodness of God, then will the
man voluntarily surrender and repent of all of his known sins. Man’s realization of his sonship
with Father is incompatible with his desire to sin anymore, because kingdom believers
hunger for righteousness and thirst for divine perfection.”
***** And so it always was, is, and
will be- “BY FAITH THE MAN IS JUSTIFIED, AND ONLY BY FAITH WILL HIS SOUL BE
SAVED TO THE ETERNAL KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” Reference: The Urantia Book, Paper 150,
Section 5 (edit/modif.) |
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