Some Study Group Questions
Paper 2: The Nature of God
1. Why is the nature of God best understood through the life and teachings of Jesus?
2. What are three of the ways in which the infinite God comes into direct contact with finite mortal beings? 2:1.6,7
3. If "Mortal man can glimspe the Father's purposes only now and then, here and there..." how is it we are admonished to seek to do the Father's will? 2:1.10
4. In a fully unified and integrated universe, how is it that potential evil is not a part of the divine nature, yet man's experience with evil is a part of God's self-realization? 2:2.7
5. Why does the full embrace of sin automatically result in annihilation? At what point do the Creator Sons cease their rehabilitative efforts? 2:3.6. Is the application of divine mercy a matter of God making exceptions due to his tolerance of the incompleteness of evolving mortals? 2:4
7. Why is it an error to believe that Jesus had to intercede for humanity in order to secure God's forgiveness and love? 2:5
8. What clues about the nature of personality can we get from the statement indicating that a sin identified mortal would become wholly unspiritual in nature and therefore personally unreal? 2:6.8
9. What does it mean to wholly identify with sin or to fully identify oneself with the indwelling Adjuster? 2:6.8
10. The first paragraph in section 7 of this paper says that, "All finite knowledge and creature understanding are relative. Information and intelligence, gleaned from even high sources, is only relatively complete, locally accurate, and personally true." How are we to "believe" the description of reality given in The Urantia Book in light of this statement?
11. In this Paper we find the first mention of the Supreme Being in a context which implies that this concept has something to do with "the oversoul of creation" and a reality which has "evolving experience". 2:3.4 This is a concept which will continue to be developed throughout the text and is the subject of a series of four Papers--Paper 115, Paper 116, Paper 117 and Paper 118.
A Service of
The Urantia Book Fellowship
