God

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God (Papers 1–5). See also Deity; I AM; Infinite, the; Paradise Trinity; Universal Father
all men are children of God (2:5.4) (40:6sec) (99:5.5)
also known as. See also Deity: also known as; Universal Father: also known as
Adonai (96:1.9)
Allah (95:7.6)
Ancient of Days (96:1.9)
Breath Giver (45:4.3) (63:6.1)
Divine Presence (48:6.11)
“Father” is most appropriate name (4:4.5)
God of Gods (45:4.10) (64:6.26)
Gods (27:7.7)
Great Light (45:4.4)
Great Spirit (45:4.5) (64:6.7)
Great Teacher (45:4.7)
Infinite (48:7.12)
Jah (96:1.9)
Jehovah (94:12.1) (96:1.10)
Jove (96:1.14)
Kyrios (96:1.9)
Lord God of Israel (45:4.14) (74:8.7) (142:3.5)
Luminous Persons (24:7.2)
Makers (48:4.15)
Most High (4:1.4) (96:1.9)
One Source of Life (45:4.9)
One Truth (45:4.8) (64:6.15) (79:6.10) (79:8.4)
Powers of Paradise (27:7.6)
Shang-ti (79:8.7) (94:5.3)
Supreme Chief (45:4.6) (64:6.23)
Supreme Directors (48:4.7)
Supreme Rulers (46:8.4) (50:1.2) (53:2.4) (54:1.9) (54:3.1) (54:4.5) (65:8.2)
Unknown (64:6.26)
Value-Giver (16:8.14)
and nature (4:2.5) (131:1.5)
consciousness of God (0:2.2) (5:2sec) (8:5sec). See also spiritual communion
best discovered in communion with Adjuster (5:2.3)
determining factor in all conduct (95:4.2)
experience remains the same over generations (5:5.12)
idea, ideal, spirit reality, and personality of God (5:5.11)
indispensable to true progress (94:6.12) (100:3.6)
inevitable result of consecration to Father’s will (5:1.6)
integration of self with universe (196:3.35)
Jesus attained by unbroken communion (196:0.10)
mysticism praiseworthy unless leading to isolation (91:7.1)
no word in human language for God-consciousness (103:1.6)
presence of God
determined by en masse loyalty to God (3:1.10-11) (13:4.3-5)
determined by spiritual capacity, consecration (5:2.1)
equalized by Master Spirits (13:4.3)
humbly obedient to creature choosing (13:4.5)
inalienable (16:9.4)
increasingly grow to feel (155:6.12)
living as in presence of God favors spiritual growth (100:1.8)
man rarely conscious of (5:2.4,5)
more real than fellow beings (16:9.4)
resident in Adjuster (196:3.23,25)
we shall one day see God face to face (5:1.9)
proved by fruits of spirit; desire to do Father’s will (5:2.4-6) (71:4.15)
ultimate of mind attainment (71:7.13)
we may attain perfection of (1:0.5)
creation of energy and life is prerogative of God; both flow out to all creation (42:1.5)
Creator Sons are God in their local universes (33:1.4). See also Michael of Nebadon: description: God of our creation
discernibly present only on Paradise and in Havona (3:1.6)
divine qualities perfectly unified in (44:7.4)
eventuates as a superperson, creates as a person, and fragments as a preperson (30:1.99)
evolution of God concept (Paper 97) (5:4.9-13) (5:5.12) (142:3sec)
finding God. See also faith; spiritual growth
all man’s endowments must be consecrated to (1:6.5)
approach to God (5:1sec)
begins by recognizing divinity of Creator Son (0:8.9)
believe in God because of human experience or revelation of truth (101:2.6)
by faith alone (32:3.6) (101:8.1) (102:6.5). See also faith
by rebound momentum of Thought Adjusters (56:4.1)
by recognizing truth, beauty, goodness, God of love, comprehension of Supreme (56:6.3)
cannot find God through science (1:2.7) (42:1.3) (133:6.7)
choosing Father’s will is (111:5.6)
creates consciousness of the Supreme (117:6.2)
desire to find God is evidence of having found Him (130:8.2) (131:10.4) (195:6.16)
discern God through creation, revelations of Sons (1:5.3)
divine union attained by progressive reciprocal spiritual communion, conformity to divine will (1:7.2)
failure in Deity adventure remands to universes; second attempt always successful (25:8.9) (26:8.3-5)
faith reveals God in the soul (101:2.10)
few have found God on Paradise (11:1.3)
finding God by submission to spirit. See submission
from experiences of living or contact with those who know God (132:7.2)
God as Father takes precedence over all phases of Deity (4:4.5-6) (54:6.2) (196:3.35)
God cannot be plural to personality (56:4.4-5)
God is always a reality of personal experience (102:4.3)
God is approachable; not in hiding (1:3.3) (1:5.3) (3:0.2) (5:1.8) (131:1.5) (131:2.4)
God manifests himself to our capacity (1:4.5-6) (32:4.7)
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)
impels man to seek loving service-contact with less illuminated fellows (102:3.4)
infinity of God shuts him off from direct communication with finite beings (2:1.6)
is identity with reality, self-completion (196:3.3)
is mortal’s 5th jubilee (27:7.8)
is oneness with divinity by means of cosmic mind (56:3.6)
John Mark spent whole day alone with God (177:1.3)
learn to love God by loving brethren (155:3.4)
man searches for friend who lives within his heart (3:1.4)
man’s nearest approach to God is through love (3:4.7)
may be attained by seeking superhuman help in resolving conflicts (76:2.8) (103:2.4)
maze of superstition, tradition, and materialistic tendencies stand in way of (102:7.6)
none go to God except through Michael (0:8.1-9) (180:3.7)
nothing holds those in captivity who seek God (130:1.2)
our limitations determine when we see God (5:1.1-2)
our thoughts, not our feelings, lead us Godward (101:1.3)
parental experience indispensable to finding God (45:6.4)
pure in heart shall see God (131:1.6)
search for God is search for everything (117:6.9)
seeking God makes us like him (133:4.9)
sevenfold approach to Deity (0:8.1-9)
soul made divine by what it strives to do, not by what it does (48:7.24)
spiritual approach is only one possible (102:4.4)
those who seek God with whole heart shall find (131:2.9) (131:8.5) (132:7.1-2)
through leadings of spiritual insight (1:3.3) (195:5.14)
through soul’s contemplation of inner spiritual reality (5:0.1)
we know God because we trust him (102:1.5)
functions in non-Father capacities as force, energy, power, causation, reaction, potentiality, actuality, gravity, tension, pattern, principle, and unity (104:2.6)
God fragments. See Thought Adjusters
God’s nature (Paper 2). See also beauty; goodness; justice: divine justice; mercy; omnipotence; omniscience; truth
all things are possible with God (2:1.2) (3:2.2) (26:5.3) (107:4.7) (131:10.2) (163:3.2) (182:3.2)
all things consist in God (0:3.11) (3:1.7) (3:5.4) (3:6sec) (9:0.4) (11:8.1) (16:9.14) (42:1.2,6) (56:1.5) (56:9.14) (104:4.46) (131:10.2,4)
all true love is from God (117:6.10)
changeless (12:7.4-6) (19:6.8) (97:1.4-5)
claims all allegiance or none (102:6.1)
confers reality of existence upon all other beings (4:4.7)
divine forgiveness inevitable (131:2.11) (174:1sec)
divine light whose interruptions constitute creation shadows (102:6.2)
energy infinity (3:2.3) (42:2.21)
enjoys expansions of self-realization (1:5.14-16)
gives his children spirit and blessings (131:10.3) (144:2.4)
good (2:6sec) (28:6.21). See also goodness: of God
guides man without self-assertion (131:8.3)
has set up tensions in creations circling Paradise (117:4.14)
in him we live and move and have our being (1:1.2) (1:5.16) (2:1.11) (3:1.2,4) (12:7.12) (16:9.14) (111:5.2) (141:2.1) (174:3.2)
infinitely inclusive of all things except evil and creature experience (108:0.2)
invisible (1:3.1) (1:5.3-4) (3:0.2)
is Father (4:4.5) (54:6.2) (56:4.4) (141:4.1) (196:3.35)
is love (1:3.8) (2:5.1,10) (6:3sec) (8:4.2) (54:4.6) (56:10.20) (130:1.5) (134:4.1) (160:5.11)
just and righteous (2:3sec)
laws of. See law: divine
lover of mankind, helper of the distressed (12:7.8) (131:4.4) (131:5.3) (193:0.3)
merciful (2:4sec) (12:7.1)
most inescapable of all presences (102:7.10) (133:4.1)
needs man to fulfill destiny (195:10.3)
neither creates evil nor permits sin and rebellion (54:0.2)
never vengeful or angry (2:6.7)
no respecter of persons (1:4.6) (2:3.1) (3:1.12) (12:7.1,8) (40:10.5,13) (64:6.27) (112:0.12) (117:6.22) (133:0.3) (137:8.6) (138:8.2) (140:3.16) (143:1.5) (148:6.2) (155:6.2) (156:2.4) (166:4.11) (175:2.1-3) (181:2.14) (192:2.2)
none is good but God (196:0.9) (196:2.2)
nothing separates us from love of (100:6.6)
omnipotence of God. See omnipotence
omniscience of God. See omniscience
one and only self-caused fact in universe (102:7.1-3)
personal (102:1.6) (102:7.3) (103:1.6)
primal, personal as Father (0:3.9-11)
purpose of God. See divine plan
source, destiny of all that is good, beautiful, true (130:2.7)
source, nature, and destiny of other-mindness (102:4.3)
spirit (1:3.1,8) (6:1.2) (6:2.6) (9:2.1) (12:8.1) (134:4.2,7) (143:5.6) (160:5.11) (169:4.2,6)
supreme ideal of religious loyalty (160:5.4-6)
truth (102:6.6) (131:1.6) (131:4.6)
unity (56:0.1) (56:1.4)
will not permit anyone to deprive another of free will (54:1.9) (54:3.1)
will of God. q.v.
great things happen when man goes into partnership with God (132:7.9)
growth of God comprehension in light and life (56:7.1-2,5) (142:2.2-4) (142:3sec) (159:4sec)
highest concept is as primal and infinite personality (2:0.1)
infinite (1:3.1) (1:5.1) (1:7.7) (2:1sec)
inhabits the present moment (2:2.1)
let supreme delight be in character of God (146:2.9)
literally present on Paradise (11:1sec)
looks beyond act to uncover motive (103:4.5) (140:6.4-5) (140:10.5) (166:1.4)
man
created in 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)
still evinces disposition to bargain with God (87:6.17)
understands God’s unity only by personal approach (1:5.11)
man’s eternal destination (5:4.3)
misconceptions about God (1:2.2) (4:5sec) (12:7.6) (102:6.3) (188:4.8) (188:5.1,11) (196:3.24)
atrocities executed in name of God (70:1.15)
everything unusual attributed to God’s personal intervention (75:4.8)
God is not a habit-bound slave (12:7.4,6)
God jealous for man, not of man (4:3.1)
not a cosmic accident (2:1.4)
pantheistic corporeality error (1:5.12)
wrath of God (142:2sec)
never victim of attitudinal antagonisms (2:4.3)
nothing takes place of God in society (195:8.6)
relation to local universes (32:4sec)
revelation of God always partial, relative, and progressive (56:9.7) (142:2.2)
revelators only able to explain God due to aid of Adjusters, Spirit of Truth (2:0.3)
soul concludes man has no right not to believe in God (101:1.7) (101:9.3)
term “God”
always denotes personality (0:2sec)
approach to supreme reality (100:3.2)
Father idea is highest human concept of God (2:0.1) (2:5.9) (196:3.35)
infinite concept of Father (0:2.9) (1:7.1) (169:4.7)
reality of values, substance of meanings, life of truth (5:4.2)
theologic definitions must change with each epoch (5:5.12)
to understand God one must explore facts (102:6.6)
valid experience of vs. divergent discourse about God (103:8.2)
what God is to science, philosophy, and religion (102:6.8)

Cross-references

See submission
See Thought Adjusters
See law: divine
See omnipotence
See omniscience
See divine plan
See also Deity
See also Deity: also known as
See also spiritual communion
See also Michael of Nebadon: description: God of our creation
See also faith
See also faith
See also beauty
See also goodness: of God
See also I AM
See also Universal Father: also known as
See also spiritual growth
See also goodness
See also Infinite, the
See also justice: divine justice
See also Paradise Trinity
See also mercy
See also Universal Father
See also omnipotence
See also omniscience
See also truth

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