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The Urantia Book devotes its opening papers to revealing the nature and character of God — the Universal Father. These 20 passages offer a glimpse into the majesty, personality, and infinite love of the First Source and Center of all things.

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On the Nature of God

“God is the first truth and the last fact; therefore does all truth take origin in him, while all facts exist relative to him.” — Paper 102:7.10
“God is spirit — spirit personality; man is also a spirit — potential spirit personality.” — Paper 1:6.8
“The Universal Father is the God of all creation, the First Source and Center of all things and beings.” — Paper 1:0.1
“In God, man lives, moves, and has his being.” — Paper 1:1.2
“God is not hiding from any of his creatures. He is unapproachable only because he dwells in a light which no material creature can approach.” — Paper 1:3.3

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On Knowing God

“To know God as he is, you must look to the Son; to know the Son, you must behold the Father.” — Paper 2:0.1
“The existence of God can never be proved by scientific experiment or by the pure reason of logical deduction. God can be realized only in the realms of human experience.” — Paper 1:2.7
“The religious experience of knowing God is the only reality that cannot be outgrown.” — Paper 100:1.5
“Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart.” — Paper 3:1.4
“Of God, the most inescapable of all presences, the most real of all facts, the most living of all truths, the most loving of all friends, and the most divine of all values, we have the right to be the most certain of all universe experiences.” — Paper 102:7.10

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On God’s Relationship to Man

“In every child lives a fraction of the Father. God enjoys a direct and unbroken communication with every soul.” — Paper 5:1.8
“God is not only the determiner of destiny; he is man’s eternal destination.” — Paper 5:4.3
“The Father desires all his creatures to be in personal communion with him.” — Paper 5:1.8
“The Universal Father never imposes any form of arbitrary recognition, formal worship, or slavish service upon the intelligent will creatures of the universes.” — Paper 1:1.2
“Your short sojourn on Urantia, on this sphere of mortal infancy, is only a single link, the very first in the long chain that is to stretch across universes and through the eternal ages.” — Paper 32:5.1

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On the Love of God

“God is inherently kind, naturally compassionate, and everlastingly merciful.” — Paper 2:4.1
“The love of the Father absolutely individualizes each personality as a unique child of the Universal Father.” — Paper 12:7.9
“God loves each individual as an individual child in the heavenly family.” — Paper 5:6.9
“The infinite love of God is not secondary to anything in the divine nature.” — Paper 2:6.9
“When man consecrates his will to the doing of the Father’s will, when man gives God all that he has, then does God make that man more than he is.” — Paper 117:4.14

Universal Father

The First Source and Center of all reality, the infinite and eternal God.

Eternal Son

The Second Source and Center, the spiritual expression of the Father’s nature.

Infinite Spirit

The Third Source and Center, the God of Action and universal mind ministry.

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