While on earth, Jesus many times repeated, “Be you therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.” [Matthew 5:48]

     If mortals are to obey the supreme mandate to be perfect even as the Father in heaven is perfect, then mortals must strive diligently to become more God-like with each passing day.
     It will require millions of years of daily striving to achieve sufficient God-likeness so that we can achieve the goal of eternity: to stand in the presence of God in Paradise.
     A mortal who desires to obey God's invitation-command to become perfect should begin now. Even as a mortal, we can begin the climb up the divine ladder one rung at a time: daily achieving one more rung on our way to God's presence in Paradise.

     Christians are taught that the Bible is the complete, final revelation of the Word of God.
     We are also taught that God is infinite in all his attributes. Therefore, his love, mercy, knowledge . . . are infinite.
     How can mortals strive toward infinite knowledge if our study of God and his far-flung universe is restricted to the limited amount of information contained in the Bible?

Following are excerpts from The Urantia Book, Papers 1 and 40.

UB 1:0.3 The enlightened worlds all recognize and worship the Universal Father, the eternal maker and infinite upholder of all creation. The will creatures of universe upon universe have embarked upon the long, long Paradise journey, the fascinating struggle of the eternal adventure of attaining God the Father. The transcendent goal of the children of time is to find the eternal God, to comprehend the divine nature, to recognize the Universal Father. God-knowing creatures have only one supreme ambition, just one consuming desire, and that is to become, as they are in their spheres, like him as he is in his Paradise perfection of personality and in his universal sphere of righteous supremacy. From the Universal Father who inhabits eternity there has gone forth the supreme mandate, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” In love and mercy the messengers of Paradise have carried this divine exhortation down through the ages and out through the universes, even to such lowly animal-origin creatures as the human races of Urantia.

UB 1:0.4 This magnificent and universal injunction to strive for the attainment of the perfection of divinity is the first duty, and should be the highest ambition, of all the struggling creature creation of the God of perfection. This possibility of the attainment of divine perfection is the final and certain destiny of all man’s eternal spiritual progress.

UB 1:0.5 Urantia mortals can hardly hope to be perfect in the infinite sense, but it is entirely possible for human beings, starting out as they do on this planet, to attain the supernal and divine goal which the infinite God has set for mortal man; and when they do achieve this destiny, they will, in all that pertains to self-realization and mind attainment, be just as replete in their sphere of divine perfection as God himself is in his sphere of infinity and eternity. Such perfection may not be universal in the material sense, unlimited in intellectual grasp, or final in spiritual experience, but it is final and complete in all finite aspects of divinity of will, perfection of personality motivation, and God-consciousness.

UB 1:0.6 This is the true meaning of that divine command, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect,” which ever urges mortal man onward and beckons him inward in that long and fascinating struggle for the attainment of higher and higher levels of spiritual values and true universe meanings. This sublime search for the God of universes is the supreme adventure of the inhabitants of all the worlds of time and space.

UB 40:7.4 Said the celestial author of Paper 40: Father-fused mortals are the mortals who have been commanded by the Universal Father, “Be you perfect, even as I am perfect.” The Father has bestowed himself upon you, placed his own spirit within you; therefore does he demand ultimate perfection of you. The narrative of human ascent from the mortal spheres of time to the divine realms of eternity constitutes an intriguing recital not included in my assignment, but this supernal adventure should be the supreme study of mortal man.
Comments. The celestial author of Paper 40, "The Ascending Sons of God," is a Mighty Messenger.
Father-Fused Mortals are mortals who have fused with their Indwelling Spirit [Thought Adjuster] as did Elijah and Enoch.
     Mortals who survive the Lucifer Rebellion can look forward to that distant day when they will be inducted into that exclusive group The Mighty Messengers.
     The Lucifer Rebellion is winding down. Soon it will be relegated to the pages of history.
     Mortals who survive beyond the Lucifer Rebellion will one day be mustered into the Corps of the Finality.