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. THE FAITH SONS OF GOD
The mortal races stand as the representatives of the lowest order of
intelligent and personal creation. You mortals are divinely beloved,
and every one of you may choose to accept the certain destiny of a
glorious experience, but you are not yet by nature of the divine
order; you are wholly mortal. You will be reckoned as ascending sons
the instant fusion takes place, but the status of the mortals of time
and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the final
Page 448 amalgamation of the surviving mortal soul with some type of
eternal and immortal spirit.
It is a solemn and supernal fact that such lowly and material
creatures as Urantia human beings are the sons of God, faith children
of the Highest. "Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed
upon us that we should be called the sons of God." "As many as
received him, to them gave he the power to recognize that they are the
sons of God." While "it does not yet appear what you shall be," even
now "you are the faith sons of God"; "for you have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of
sonship, whereby you cry, `our Father.'" Spoke the prophet of old in
the name of the eternal God: "Even to them will I give in my house a
place and a name better than sons; I will give them an everlasting
name, one that shall not be cut off." "And because you are sons, God
has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts."
All evolutionary worlds of mortal habitation harbor these faith sons
of God, sons of grace and mercy, mortal beings belonging to the divine
family and accordingly called the sons of God. Urantia mortals are
entitled to regard themselves as being the sons of God because:
1. You are sons of spiritual promise, faith sons; you have accepted
the status of sonship. You believe in the reality of your sonship, and
thus does your sonship with God become eternally real.
2. A Creator Son of God became one of you; he is your elder brother in
fact; and if in spirit you become truly related brothers of Christ,
the victorious Michael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that
Father which you have in common--even the Universal Father of all.
3. You are sons because the spirit of a Son has been poured out upon
you, has been freely and certainly bestowed upon all Urantia races.
This spirit ever draws you toward the divine Son, who is its source,
and toward the Paradise Father, who is the source of that divine Son.
4. Of his divine free-willness, the Universal Father has given you
your creature personalities. You have been endowed with a measure of
that divine spontaneity of freewill action which God shares with all
who may become his sons.
5. There dwells within you a fragment of the Universal Father, and you
are thus directly related to the divine Father of all the Sons of God.
Read further in The Urantia Book.
Claude M.
The mortal races stand as the representatives of the lowest order of
intelligent and personal creation. You mortals are divinely beloved,
and every one of you may choose to accept the certain destiny of a
glorious experience, but you are not yet by nature of the divine
order; you are wholly mortal. You will be reckoned as ascending sons
the instant fusion takes place, but the status of the mortals of time
and space is that of faith sons prior to the event of the final
Page 448 amalgamation of the surviving mortal soul with some type of
eternal and immortal spirit.
It is a solemn and supernal fact that such lowly and material
creatures as Urantia human beings are the sons of God, faith children
of the Highest. "Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed
upon us that we should be called the sons of God." "As many as
received him, to them gave he the power to recognize that they are the
sons of God." While "it does not yet appear what you shall be," even
now "you are the faith sons of God"; "for you have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of
sonship, whereby you cry, `our Father.'" Spoke the prophet of old in
the name of the eternal God: "Even to them will I give in my house a
place and a name better than sons; I will give them an everlasting
name, one that shall not be cut off." "And because you are sons, God
has sent forth the spirit of his Son into your hearts."
All evolutionary worlds of mortal habitation harbor these faith sons
of God, sons of grace and mercy, mortal beings belonging to the divine
family and accordingly called the sons of God. Urantia mortals are
entitled to regard themselves as being the sons of God because:
1. You are sons of spiritual promise, faith sons; you have accepted
the status of sonship. You believe in the reality of your sonship, and
thus does your sonship with God become eternally real.
2. A Creator Son of God became one of you; he is your elder brother in
fact; and if in spirit you become truly related brothers of Christ,
the victorious Michael, then in spirit must you also be sons of that
Father which you have in common--even the Universal Father of all.
3. You are sons because the spirit of a Son has been poured out upon
you, has been freely and certainly bestowed upon all Urantia races.
This spirit ever draws you toward the divine Son, who is its source,
and toward the Paradise Father, who is the source of that divine Son.
4. Of his divine free-willness, the Universal Father has given you
your creature personalities. You have been endowed with a measure of
that divine spontaneity of freewill action which God shares with all
who may become his sons.
5. There dwells within you a fragment of the Universal Father, and you
are thus directly related to the divine Father of all the Sons of God.
Read further in The Urantia Book.
Claude M.