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little about him. In fact, he taught only two things:
is spirit.
that, in all matters of relationship with his creatures, he is a Father.
On this evening Jesus made the final pronouncement of his relationship with God when he declared: "I have come out from the Father, and I have come into the world; again, I will leave the world and go to the Father."
But mark you! never did Jesus say, "Whoso has heard me has heard God." But he did say, "He who has seen me has seen the Father."
To hear Jesus' teaching is not equivalent to knowing God, but to see Jesus is an experience which in itself is a revelation of the Father to the soul. The God of universes rules the far-flung creation, but it is the Father in heaven who sends forth his spirit to dwell within your minds.
Jesus is the spiritual lens in human likeness which makes visible to the material creature Him who is invisible. He is your elder brother who, in the flesh, makes known to you a Being of infinite attributes whom not even the celestial hosts can presume fully to understand. But all of this must consist in the personal experience of the individual believer.
God who is spirit can be known only as a spiritual experience.
God can be revealed to the finite sons of the material worlds, by the divine Son of the spiritual realms, only as a Father.
You can know the Eternal as a Father; you can worship him as the God of universes, the infinite Creator of all existences.
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The text of page 1857 of The Urantia Book tells us that, through its revelation of his life, we are enabled to "see" Jesus. This "mind-vision" can only come because of a thorough familiarity with that life and the way Jesus lived it. When we do acquire that familiarity, it becomes possible to experience a revelation of the Father to our souls.
The big advantage of knowing the life of Jesus comes because, in virtually any situation that we find ourselves, we can ask our Thought Adjuster, "What would Jesus do?" And since we already have a pictorial representation of Jesus' life stored in the memory banks of our minds, we facilitate the Thought Adjuster's ability to communicate an answer.
We are blessed with this gift. Its effectiveness is in our own hands.
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