God is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity. But he rules in the local universes in the persons of his Paradise Creator Sons [such as Jesus], even as he bestows life through these Sons. "God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Sons." These Creator Sons of God are the personal expression of himself [God] in the sectors of time and to the children of the whirling planets of the evolving universes of space.  [3:0:1] [1 John 5:11]
     Said Jesus:. . . Whosoever has seen me has seen the Father. . . [John 14:9]

18. God's Everywhereness.
      The ability of the Universal Father to be everywhere present, and at the same time, constitutes his omnipresence. God alone can be in two places, in numberless places, at the same time. God is simultaneously present "in heaven above and on the earth beneath"; as the Psalmist exclaimed: "Whither shall I go from your spirit? or whither shall I flee from your presence?" [3:1:1] [Psalms 139:7]
      "`I am a God at hand as well as afar off,' says the Lord. [Jeremiah 23:23] `Do not I fill heaven and earth?'" [Jeremiah 23:24] The Universal Father is all the time present in all parts and in all hearts of his far-flung creation. He is "the fullness of him who fills all and in all," [Psalm 24:1] and "who works all in all," and further, the concept of his personality is such that "the heaven (universe) and heaven of heavens (universe of universes) cannot contain him." [II Chronicles 2:6] It is literally true that God is all and in all. But even that is not all of God. The Infinite can be finally revealed only in infinity; the cause can never be fully comprehended by an analysis of effects; the living God is immeasurably greater than the sum total of creation that has come into being as a result of the creative acts of his unfettered free will. God is revealed throughout the cosmos, but the cosmos can never contain or encompass the entirety of the infinity of God. [3:1:2]

      The Father's presence unceasingly patrols the master universe. "His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it; and there is nothing hidden from the light thereof." [Psalm 19:6] [3:1:3]
      The creature not only exists in God, but God also lives in the creature. "We know we dwell in him because he lives in us; he has given us his spirit. This gift from the Paradise Father is man's inseparable companion." [I John 4:13] "He is the ever-present and all-pervading God." "The spirit of the everlasting Father is concealed in the mind of every mortal child." "Man goes forth searching for a friend while that very friend lives within his own heart." "The true God is not afar off; he is a part of us; his spirit speaks from within us." "The Father lives in the child. God is always with us. He is the guiding spirit of eternal destiny." [3:1:4]
      Truly of the human race has it been said, "You are of God" because "he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him." Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God [the Indwelling Spirit], for he must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration. [3:1:5]

19. God's Infinite Power.
      All the universes know that "the Lord God omnipotent reigns." [Revelation 19:6?] 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." [Daniel 4:35] It is eternally true, "there is no power but of God." [Romans 13:1] [3:2:1]
      Within the bounds of that which is consistent with the divine nature, it is literally true that "with God all things are possible." [Matthew 19:26] [Mark 10:27] 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.  [3:2:2]

      God controls all power; he has made "a way for the lightning"; he has ordained the circuits of all energy. [Job 28:26] 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 [lower] 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.  [3:2:4]

20. God's Universal Knowledge.
      "God knows all things." [I John 3:20] The divine mind is conscious of, and conversant with, the thought of all creation. His knowledge of events is universal and perfect. The divine entities going out from him are a part of him; he who "balances the clouds" is also "perfect in knowledge." [Job 36:4] [Job 37:16] "The eyes of the Lord are in every place." [II Chronicles 16:9] [Proverbs 15:3] Said your great teacher [Jesus] of the insignificant sparrow, "One of them shall not fall to the ground without my Father's knowledge," [Matthew 10:29] and also, "The very hairs of your head are numbered." [Matthew 10:30] [Luke 12:7] "He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names." [Psalms 147:4] [3:3:1]

      The Universal Father is the only personality in all the universe who does actually know the number of the stars and planets of space. All the worlds of every universe are constantly within the consciousness of God. He also says: "I have surely seen the affliction of my people, I have heard their cry, and I know their sorrows." [Exodus 3:7] [Isaiah 63:9] For "the Lord looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men; from the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth." [Psalm 33:13,14] Every creature child may truly say: "He knows the way I take, and when he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold." [Job 23:10] "God knows our downsittings and our uprisings; he understands our thoughts afar off and is acquainted with all our ways." [Isaiah 66:18?] [Psalms 139:3] "All things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we have to do." [Hebrews 4:13] And it should be a real comfort to every human being to understand that "he knows your frame; he remembers that you are dust." [Psalm 104:13] [Genesis 2:7] Jesus, speaking of the living God, said, "Your Father knows what you have need of even before you ask him." [Matthew 6:8,32] [3:3:2]

      God is possessed of unlimited power to know all things; his consciousness is universal. His personal circuit encompasses all personalities, and his knowledge of even the lowly creatures is supplemented indirectly through the descending series of divine Sons and directly through the indwelling Thought Adjusters [Indwelling Spirits].  [3:3:3]
      We are not wholly certain as to whether or not God chooses to foreknow events of sin. But even if God should foreknow the freewill acts of his children, such foreknowledge does not in the least abrogate their freedom. One thing is certain: God is never subjected to surprise.  [3:3:4]

21. God's Limitlessness.
      Keep in mind: God literally holds the universe together. If he withdrew his support the universe would collapse instantly. "The Father is always to be found on Paradise. Did he move, universal pandemonium would be precipitated, for there converge in him at this residential center the universal lines of gravity from the ends of creation."  [11:1:4]

      The following information is from The Urantia Book, Paper 3, Section 4 . If you find it a bit too involved, please proceed to Item 22.

      The successive bestowal of himself upon the universes as they are brought into being in no wise lessens the potential of power or the store of wisdom as they continue to reside and repose in the central personality of Deity. In potential of force, wisdom, and love, the Father has never lessened aught of his possession nor become divested of any attribute of his glorious personality as the result of the unstinted bestowal of himself upon the Paradise Sons [such as Jesus], upon his subordinate creations, and upon the manifold creatures thereof.  [3:4:1]

      The creation of every new universe calls for a new adjustment of gravity; but even if creation should continue indefinitely, eternally, even to infinity, so that eventually the material creation would exist without limitations, still the power of control and co-ordination reposing in the Isle of Paradise would be found equal to, and adequate for, the mastery, control, and co-ordination of such an infinite universe. And subsequent to this bestowal of limitless force and power upon a boundless universe, the Infinite would still be surcharged with the same degree of force and energy; the Unqualified Absolute would still be undiminished; God would still possess the same infinite potential, just as if force, energy, and power had never been poured forth for the endowment of universe upon universe.  [3:4:2]

      And so with wisdom: The fact that mind is so freely distributed to the thinking of the realms in no wise impoverishes the central source of divine wisdom. As the universes multiply, and beings of the realms increase in number to the limits of comprehension, if mind continues without end to be bestowed upon these beings of high and low estate, still will God's central personality continue to embrace the same eternal, infinite, and all-wise mind.  [3:4:3]
      The fact that he sends forth spirit messengers from himself to indwell the men and women of your world and other worlds in no wise lessens his ability to function as a divine and all-powerful spirit personality; and there is absolutely no limit to the extent or number of such spirit Monitors [Indwelling Spirits] which he can and may send out. This giving of himself to his creatures creates a boundless, almost inconceivable future possibility of progressive and successive existences for these divinely endowed mortals. And this prodigal distribution of himself as these ministering spirit entities in no manner diminishes the wisdom and perfection of truth and knowledge which repose in the person of the all-wise, all-knowing, and all-powerful Father.  [3:4:4]

      To the mortals of time there is a future, but God inhabits eternity. Even though I hail from near the very abiding place of Deity, I cannot presume to speak with perfection of understanding concerning the infinity of many of the divine attributes. Infinity of mind alone can fully comprehend infinity of existence and eternity of action.  [3:4:5]
      [Note: The author of Paper 3 is a Divine Counselor hailing from Uversa, the capital of our seventh superuniverse of Orvonton. Divine Counselors are of Trinity-origin. There are twenty-one billion Counselors in service, and three billion are assigned to each superuniverse. (19:3:1)]
      Mortal man cannot possibly know the infinitude of the heavenly Father. Finite mind cannot think through such an absolute truth or fact. But this same finite human being can actually feel--literally experience--the full and undiminished impact of such an infinite Father's LOVE. Such a love can be truly experienced, albeit while quality of experience is unlimited, quantity of such an experience is strictly limited by the human capacity for spiritual receptivity and by the associated capacity to love the Father in return.  [3:4:6]
      Finite appreciation of infinite qualities far transcends the logically limited capacities of the creature because of the fact that mortal man is made in the image of God--there lives within him a fragment of infinity [the Indwelling Spirit]. Therefore man's nearest and dearest approach to God is by and through love, for God is love. And all of such a unique relationship is an actual experience in cosmic sociology, the Creator-creature relationship--the Father-child affection.  [3:4:7]

22. The Father's Supreme Rule .
      In his contact with the post-Havona creations, the Universal Father does not exercise his infinite power and final authority by direct transmittal but rather through his Sons and their subordinate personalities. And God does all this of his own free will. Any and all powers delegated, if occasion should arise, if it should become the choice of the divine mind, could be exercised direct; but, as a rule, such action only takes place as a result of the failure of the delegated personality to fulfill the divine trust. At such times and in the face of such default and within the limits of the reservation of divine power and potential, the Father does act independently and in accordance with the mandates of his own choice; and that choice is always one of unfailing perfection and infinite wisdom.  [3:5:1]
      The Father rules through his Sons [Jesus and other high-ranking rulers]; on down through the universe organization there is an unbroken chain of rulers ending with the Planetary Princes, who direct the destinies of the evolutionary spheres of the Father's vast domains. It is no mere poetic expression that exclaims: "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof." [Psalm 24:1] [I Corinthians 10:26] "He removes kings and sets up kings." "The Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men." [Daniel 4:25] [Deuteronomy 32:8] [3:4:2]
      [Note: Our Planetary Prince, Caligastia, joined Lucifer in his rebellion against the rule of Jesus and God about 200,000 years ago. This explains in part the spiritual backwardness and sin-dominated condition of the mortals on our planet. Mortals know Caligastia as the "devil." (Paper 67: The Planetary Rebellion) You may also wish to read Paper 66: The Planetary Prince of Urantia.]

      In the affairs of men's hearts the Universal Father may not always have his way; but in the conduct and destiny of a planet the divine plan prevails; the eternal purpose of wisdom and love triumphs.  [3:5:3]
      Said Jesus: "My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." [John 10:28,29] As you glimpse the manifold workings and view the staggering immensity of God's well-nigh limitless creation, you may falter in your concept of his primacy, but you should not fail to accept him as securely and everlastingly enthroned at the Paradise center of all things and as the beneficent Father of all intelligent beings. There is but "one God and Father of all, who is above all and in all," [Ephesians 4:6] "and he is before all things, and in him all things consist." [Colossians 1:17] [3:5:4]

      Throughout the universe, every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and purpose of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do the Father's divine will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. In the Havona universe there are a billion perfect worlds with their perfect inhabitants, but evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment. [3:5:15]

23. The Father's Primacy.
      With divine selflessness, consummate generosity, the Universal Father relinquishes authority and delegates power, but he is still primal; his hand is on the mighty lever of the circumstances of the universal realms; he has reserved all final decisions and unerringly wields the all-powerful veto scepter of his eternal purpose with unchallengeable authority over the welfare and destiny of the outstretched, whirling, and ever-circling creation. [3:6:1]
      The sovereignty of God is unlimited; it is the fundamental fact of all creation. The universe was not inevitable. The universe is not an accident, neither is it self-existent. The universe is a work of creation and is therefore wholly subject to the will of the Creator. The will of God is divine truth, living love; therefore are the perfecting creations of the evolutionary universes characterized by goodness--nearness to divinity; by potential evil--remoteness from divinity. [3:6:2]

      All religious philosophy, sooner or later, arrives at the concept of unified universe rule, of one God. Universe causes cannot be lower than universe effects. The source of the streams of universe life and of the cosmic mind must be above the levels of their manifestation. The human mind cannot be consistently explained in terms of the lower orders of existence. Man's mind can be truly comprehended only by recognizing the reality of higher orders of thought and purposive will. Man as a moral being is inexplicable unless the reality of the Universal Father is acknowledged. [3:6:3]
      The mechanistic philosopher professes to reject the idea of a universal and sovereign will, the very sovereign will whose activity in the elaboration of universe laws he so deeply reverences. What unintended homage the mechanist pays the law-Creator when he conceives such laws to be self-acting and self-explanatory! [3:6:4]

      It is a great blunder to humanize God, except in the concept of the indwelling Thought Adjuster, but even that is not so stupid as completely to mechanize the idea of the First Great Source and Center [God, the Universal Father]. [3:6:5]

      Does the Paradise Father suffer? I do not know. The Creator Sons [such as Jesus] most certainly can and sometimes do, even as do mortals. The Eternal Son and the Infinite Spirit suffer in a modified sense. I think the Universal Father does, but I cannot understand how; perhaps through the personality circuit or through the individuality of the Thought Adjusters [Indwelling Spirits] and other bestowals of his eternal nature. He has said of the mortal races, "In all your afflictions I am afflicted." He unquestionably experiences a fatherly and sympathetic understanding; he may truly suffer, but I do not comprehend the nature thereof. [3:6:6]
      The infinite and eternal Ruler of the universe of universes is power, form, energy, process, pattern, principle, presence, and idealized reality. But he is more; he is personal; he exercises a sovereign will, experiences self-consciousness of divinity, executes the mandates of a creative mind, pursues the satisfaction of the realization of an eternal purpose, and manifests a Father's love and affection for his universe children. And all these more personal traits of the Father can be better understood by observing them as they were revealed in the bestowal life of Michael, your Creator Son [Jesus], while he was incarnated on Urantia [earth]. [3:6:7]

Note: Most statements in this paper were quoted verbatim from the source.