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    Bradly
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    Like Jesus did so as Teacher, so too does the UB use analogy and metaphor to illustrate and illuminate many truths. This is especially so regarding the religious experience of mortals and the connection to Divinity and Deity which is an inherent part of our very being and existence. Faith and religious experience are an integral human reality upon our first breath and birth (and perhaps in some ways even in the womb?).

    Religious experience and faith are not something we ‘find’ or ‘create’. It simply IS. We are connected to Deity via many different forms of connectivity. The Personality, Spirit, and Mind Circuits plus the Holy Spirit and Adjutant Mind Spirit ministries, the Cosmic Mind, and the God Fragment Adjusters and the Spirit of Truth, as well as God the Supreme and the Guardian Seraphim – each and all are distinct connections to Deity and the Divine Circuits of ministry !!!!

    The Master and the UB helps us conceptualize these connections by the descriptions of the branch connecting to the vine and the fruits of the Spirit.

    We are born connected to the Spirit….but it is by our freewill choices and decisions that we “attach” our branch to the vine of the Spirit and begin the nurturing and nursing process of our own spirit nature and soul.

    This attachment begins unconsciously we are told. It begins with an awareness of the “OTHER” presence of the Spirit within. It progresses by our affection for others and our budding sense of altruism and morality. Once the soul is born….our response and responsiveness to the Spirit urgings and leadings in our mind determines the growth of soul and our spiritization is now progressing!!

    Divine Assurance is Deity’s response to the faith experience and mortal’s response to the Deity connection we are born with and of the mortal mind and soul.

    #52891
    Bradly
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    Like you, I have known many believers, even devout and faithful believers I think, who do not really seem to enjoy this sense of Divine Assurance.

    Why not? Well….I think it is because we are just so young and inexperienced and so easily distracted and material demands are so many and so frequent and persistent…it is not difficult for doubts and confusions to attend the vicissitudes and edges of conflict.

    But the UB assures us that such immaturities only delay progress but do not prevent salvation or resurrection. Faith and assurance do not eliminate uncertainty…but they can transform it into the portal of adventure and anticipation if we let them.

    110:3.5 (1206.3) Confusion, being puzzled, even sometimes discouraged and distracted, does not necessarily signify resistance to the leadings of the indwelling Adjuster. Such attitudes may sometimes connote lack of active co-operation with the divine Monitor and may, therefore, somewhat delay spiritual progress, but such intellectual emotional difficulties do not in the least interfere with the certain survival of the God-knowing soul. Ignorance alone can never prevent survival; neither can confusional doubts nor fearful uncertainty. Only conscious resistance to the Adjuster’s leading can prevent the survival of the evolving immortal soul.

    102:1.1 (1118.4) The work of the Thought Adjuster constitutes the explanation of the translation of man’s primitive and evolutionary sense of duty into that higher and more certain faith in the eternal realities of revelation. There must be perfection hunger in man’s heart to insure capacity for comprehending the faith paths to supreme attainment. If any man chooses to do the divine will, he shall know the way of truth. It is literally true, “Human things must be known in order to be loved, but divine things must be loved in order to be known.” But honest doubts and sincere questionings are not sin; such attitudes merely spell delay in the progressive journey toward perfection attainment. Childlike trust secures man’s entrance into the kingdom of heavenly ascent, but progress is wholly dependent on the vigorous exercise of the robust and confident faith of the full-grown man.

    34:7.8 (383.2) Having started out on the way of life everlasting, having accepted the assignment and received your orders to advance, do not fear the dangers of human forgetfulness and mortal inconstancy, do not be troubled with doubts of failure or by perplexing confusion, do not falter and question your status and standing, for in every dark hour, at every crossroad in the forward struggle, the Spirit of Truth will always speak, saying, “This is the way.”

    Read about “vicissitudes”:

    Search The Urantia Book

    159:3.7 (1766.3) Forewarn all believers regarding the fringe of conflict which must be traversed by all who pass from the life as it is lived in the flesh to the higher life as it is lived in the spirit. To those who live quite wholly within either realm, there is little conflict or confusion, but all are doomed to experience more or less uncertainty during the times of transition between the two levels of living. In entering the kingdom, you cannot escape its responsibilities or avoid its obligations, but remember: The gospel yoke is easy and the burden of truth is light.

    :good:

    #52892
    Bradly
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    I think the more assurance we have the firmer is our branch attached to the vine.  And the better our universe reality perspective delivers the fruits of the Spirit vine and Source.

    The sharing of such Divine Assurance with others is a loving and nurturing and healing ministry of loving service.

    Let us be gentle, kind, and generous with one another…and all others!

     

    :good:

    #52905
    Bradly
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    Perhaps it is that false and unfounded fears, and primitive religious/creedal doctrines, about God’s supposed and fictional anger prevents some souls from the soothing assurance of God’s affection for the children of time.

    While such fears and childish superstitions are part of the evolutionary discovery of our Deity Connections in the early stages of progressive planetary epochs, only the ignorance and darkness of our world’s double deprivation by rebellion and default has allowed such a lingering legacy of anxiety about our relationship to Deity.

    It is so unfortunate that the Jesusonian Gospel of Divine Assurance has been so polluted and distorted into a weapon of punishment and submission by so many who truly destroy the true gospel delivered to our world 2000 years ago.

    The entirety of Jesus’s message and the Urantia Papers is that of comforting assurance of God’s friendly universe and our connections to Deity as the beloved children of God.

    Good News!  Good news indeed!  Time for our world to grow up and embrace the true universe reality perspective of the Divine Family and the eternal adventures of love.

    :-)

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