P46:5, 3:2.1
All the universes know that "the Lord God omnipotent reigns." The affairs
of this world and other worlds are divinely supervised. "He does according
to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth."
It is eternally true, "there is no power but of God."
P46:6, 3:2.2
Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is
literally true that "with God all things are possible." The long-drawn-out
evolutionary processes of peoples, planets, and universes are under the perfect
control of the universe creators and administrators and unfold in accordance
with the eternal purpose of the Universal Father, proceeding in harmony and
order and in keeping with the all-wise plan of God. There is only one lawgiver.
He upholds the worlds in space and swings the universes around the endless
circle of the eternal circuit.
P47:1, 3:2.3
Of all the divine attributes, his omnipotence, especially as it prevails in
the material universe, is the best understood. Viewed as an unspiritual phenomenon,
God is energy. This declaration of physical fact is predicated on the incomprehensible
truth that the First Source and Center is the primal cause of the universal
physical phenomena of all space. From this divine activity all physical energy
and other material manifestations are derived. Light, that is, light without
heat, is another of the nonspiritual manifestations of the Deities. And there
is still another form of nonspiritual energy which is virtually unknown on
Urantia; it is as yet unrecognized.
P47:2, 3:2.4
God controls all power; he has made "a way for the lightning"; he has ordained
the circuits of all energy. He has decreed the time and manner of the manifestation
of all forms of energy-matter. And all these things are held forever in his
everlasting grasp -- in the gravitational control centering on nether Paradise.
The light and energy of the eternal God thus swing on forever around his majestic
circuit, the endless but orderly procession of the starry hosts composing
the universe of universes. All creation circles eternally around the
Paradise-Personality
center of all things and beings.
P47:3, 3:2.5
The omnipotence of the Father pertains to the everywhere dominance of the
absolute level, whereon the three energies, material, mindal, and spiritual,
are indistinguishable in close proximity to him -- the Source of all things.
Creature mind, being neither Paradise monota nor Paradise spirit, is not directly
responsive to the Universal Father. God adjusts with the mind of imperfection
-- with Urantia mortals through the Thought Adjusters.
P47:4, 3:2.6
The Universal Father is not a transient force, a shifting power, or a fluctuating
energy. The power and wisdom of the Father are wholly adequate to cope with
any and all universe exigencies. As the emergencies of human experience arise,
he has foreseen them all, and therefore he does not react to the affairs of
the universe in a detached way but rather in accordance with the dictates
of eternal wisdom and in consonance with the mandates of infinite judgment.
Regardless of appearances, the power of God is not functioning in the universe
as a blind force.
P47:5, 3:2.7
Situations do arise in which it appears that emergency rulings have been made,
that natural laws have been suspended, that misadaptations have been recognized,
and that an effort is being made to rectify the situation; but such is not
the case. Such concepts of God have their origin in the limited range of your
viewpoint, in the finiteness of your comprehension, and in the circumscribed
scope of your survey; such misunderstanding of God is due to the profound
ignorance you enjoy regarding the existence of the higher laws of the realm,
the magnitude of the Father's character, the infinity of his attributes, and
the fact of his free-willness.
P47:6, 3:2.8
The planetary creatures of God's spirit indwelling, scattered hither and yon
throughout the universes of space, are so nearly infinite in number and order,
their intellects are so diverse, their minds are so limited and sometimes
so gross, their vision is so curtailed and localized, that it is almost impossible
to formulate
generalizations of law adequately expressive of the Father's
infinite attributes and at the same time to any degree comprehensible to these
created intelligences. Therefore, to you the creature, many of the acts of
the all-powerful Creator seem to be arbitrary, detached, and not infrequently
heartless and cruel. But again I assure you that this is not true. God's doings
are all purposeful, intelligent, wise, kind, and eternally considerate of
the best good, not always of an individual being, an individual race, an individual
planet, or even an individual universe; but they are for the welfare and best
good of all concerned, from the lowest to the highest. In the epochs of time
the welfare of the part may sometimes appear to differ from the welfare of
the whole; in the circle of eternity such apparent differences are nonexistent.
P48:1, 3:2.9
We are all a part of the family of God, and we must therefore sometimes share
in the family discipline. Many of the acts of God which so disturb and confuse
us are the result of the decisions and final rulings of all-wisdom, empowering
the Conjoint Actor to execute the choosing of the infallible will of the infinite
mind, to enforce the decisions of the personality of perfection, whose survey,
vision, and solicitude embrace the highest and eternal welfare of all his
vast and far-flung creation.
P48:2, 3:2.10
Thus it is that your detached, sectional, finite, gross, and highly materialistic
viewpoint and the limitations inherent in the nature of your being constitute
such a handicap that you are unable to see, comprehend, or know the wisdom
and kindness of many of the divine acts which to you seem fraught with such
crushing cruelty, and which seem to be characterized by such utter indifference
to the comfort and welfare, to the planetary happiness and personal prosperity,
of your fellow creatures. It is because of the limits of human vision, it
is because of your circumscribed understanding and finite comprehension, that
you misunderstand the motives, and pervert the purposes, of God. But many
things occur on the evolutionary worlds which are not the personal doings
of the Universal Father.
P48:3, 3:2.11
The divine omnipotence is perfectly co-ordinated with the other attributes
of the personality of God. The power of God is, ordinarily, only limited in
its universe spiritual manifestation by three conditions or situations: