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In Whitehead's scheme, God's primordial nature is taken as the source of "eternal objects" from which God offers particular aims to each entity (including us) at the beginning of our growth period. However, we are free to accept or reject God's plan for us, his action in the world being seen as always persuasive and never coercive.
Urantia Book readers might note the similarities of the primordial nature of God with aspects of existential deity as propounded in the Urantia Papers and the consequent nature of God which is immersed in the world having similarities with the God the Supreme as described in the Papers.
In Whitehead's scheme, in his primordial nature God has a vision of all potentialities and a plan on how each individual might best use them for their growth. The Urantia Papers inform us that "There is in the mind of God a plan which embraces every creature of all his vast domains," (365) and that our Thought Adjusters lay plans for our eternal careers (1183).
The description of both existential deity (transcendent deity) and experiential deity provided in the Urantia Papers appears to be far in advance of anything postulated by process theologians. The encouraging thing is the convergence of their paths, coupled with the observation that both provide rational alternatives to theological problems that, in the past, had no solutions.
Process philosophy is holistic. It perceives relationships between primary, but transient, entities as being the basis of all reality and growth, and all things affecting one another. Our opening quotation from p.647 establishes that the Urantia Papers also propound a holistic view of reality.
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