JESUS: Son of Man and Son of God
Fatherhood of the Mortal Jesus.
Primitive man comprehended no connection between sex indulgence and the subsequent birth of a child. It was once universally believed that a virgin could become pregnant. The savage early conceived the idea that babies were made in spirit land; pregnancy was believed to be the result of a woman’s being entered by a spirit, an evolving ghost. Other concepts developed to explain methods by which virgins or unmarried women could become pregnant.
Joseph and Mary were the mortal parents of Jesus. Jesus was conceived and was born into the world just as all other babies before and since except that this particular baby was the incarnation of Michael of Nebadon, a divine Son of Paradise and the creator of our local universe. Jesus’ human parents were average people of their day and generation, and this incarnated Son of God was thus born of woman and was reared in the ordinary manner of the children of that race and age. It was the plan of Jesus to be born into an average family so that the common people would more readily accept him.
Jesus was born August 21, 7 B.C. [84:1:3] [119:7:5] [122:8:1]The Creator Sons of God.
Jesus is a Paradise Son of God, a Creator Son of the Order of Michael. He was created by God the Father and God the Son. [Jesus’ Apostles believed he was the God the Son incarnated in mortal flesh.] Each Creator Son is different from every other; each is unique in nature as well as in personality; each is the "only-begotten Son" of the perfect deity ideal of his origin.
When a Paradise Creator Son has completed his seventh and final bestowal, he functions as a universe Father in his own creation. Our planet is of local universe concern because it was the scene of the final and triumphant bestowal of Jesus, the arena in which Jesus won the supreme personal sovereignty of our local universe of Nebadon. He was given "all power in heaven and on earth." When Jesus gave up the conscious grasp of the incarnated life on earth, he could, and did, truly say "It is finished"--it was literally finished. His death on earth completed his bestowal career. He is now a Master Son, a sovereign and supreme ruler.
On a mortal bestowal mission a Creator Son is always born of woman and grows up as a male child of the realm, as Jesus did on our planet. Each Creator Son must pass through a mortal bestowal experience before he is accounted experientially worthy and competent finally and fully to rule over his universe domains.
When a bestowal Son has mastered the experience of living the mortal life, when he has achieved perfection of attunement with his indwelling Adjuster [the Indwelling Spirit], he begins that part of his planetary mission designed to illuminate the minds and to inspire the souls of his brethren in the flesh.
The extraordinary and unusually cruel death through which Jesus passed has caused our planet to become locally known as "the world of the cross."
[20:1:1,7,8 ~ 5:5 ~ 6:2,4,6] [21:0:1 ~ 1:4 ~ 3:15 ~ 4:5,6]Purpose of Creature Incarnations.
Creature incarnations enable Creator Sons to become wise, sympathetic, just, and understanding sovereigns. These bestowals are the last steps in their education and training for the sublime tasks of ruling the local universes in divine righteousness and by just judgment. They are absolutely necessary to a fair, merciful, and understanding administration of such a local universe, teeming with its varied forms of life and its myriads of intelligent but imperfect creatures.
The three Ancients of Days who rule our superuniverse will never certify a Creator Son as Universe Sovereign until he has really acquired the viewpoint of his own creatures by actual experience in the environment of their existence and as these very creatures themselves. Jesus was born a creator, educated an administrator, trained an executive, but he was required to earn his sovereignty by experience.
He made ready for the first of his seven bestowal adventures in the likeness of his created creatures about one billion years ago. It required almost one billion years of our time to complete the bestowal career of Jesus [Michael] and to effect the final establishment of his supreme authority in the universe of his own creation [Nebadon].
After Jesus’ final and successful bestowal on earth he was accepted by the Ancients of Days as sovereign ruler of our universe of Nebadon, and he was recognized by God the Father as the established director of the local universe of his own creation. He was proclaimed the settled ruler of Nebadon.One of the core beliefs in the Christian religion is that Jesus was required to die on the cross to pay for the sins of mankind. Christians point to several passages in the Bible, especially in the New Testament, to support this teaching. For example:
1. His death on the cross saved mankind from the wrath of God:
Much more then, being justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. [Romans 5:9] [The King James Study Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville TN]
2. Jesus came to give his life as a ransom for many [or for all].
[Mark 10:45] [1 Timothy 2:6]3. Jesus came according to God’s will:
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world . . . [1 Peter 1:19-20]
4. Jesus gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God . . .
[Ephesians 5:2]5. God laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all.
[Galatians 3:13] [2 Corinthians 5:21] [Isaiah 53:6]6. Jesus’ death on the cross made possible the reconciliation of mankind to God. [2 Corinthians 5:19]
Primitive beliefs as the foregoing were developed by the savage over a period of thousands of years and were faithfully handed down from generation to generation. Many of these primitive beliefs are reflected in both the Old Testament and New Testament. As early man began to formulate his beliefs regarding his numerous gods, he assumed that the gods were just like himself only much more powerful. Thus, his gods were wrathful, quick to anger, jealous, constantly had to be appeased with gifts, sacrifices, etc. [4:3:1]
God is inherently kind, naturally compassionate, and everlastingly merciful. And never is it necessary that any influence be brought to bear upon the Father to call forth his loving-kindness. The creature’s need is wholly sufficient to insure the full flow of the Father’s mercies and his saving grace. [2:4:2]
God the Father is eternally immutable and changeless. Therefore, he did not change his attributes between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Much has been made of God’s supposed wrathfulness and anger, but from eternity to eternity, God has never been a wrathful and angry God.
The eternal God is incapable of wrath and anger in the sense of these human emotions and as man understands such reactions. These sentiments are mean and despicable; they are hardly worthy of being called human, much less divine; and such attitudes are utterly foreign to the perfect nature and gracious character of the Universal Father. [4:3:1,2] [4:4:2]
The people of earth continue to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. The gods who go on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood--these are the gods of primitive religion; they are not the Gods who live and rule the universes. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the guidance and domination of the whims of such imaginary gods. [4:5:3]
The barbarous idea of appeasing an angry God, of propitiating an offended Lord, of winning the favor of Deity through sacrifices and penance and even by the shedding of blood, represents a religion wholly puerile and primitive, a philosophy unworthy of an enlightened age of science and truth. Such beliefs are utterly repulsive to the celestial beings and the divine rulers who serve and reign in the universes. It is an affront to God to believe, hold, or teach that innocent blood must be shed in order to win his favor or to divert the fictitious divine wrath. [4:5:4]
The Hebrews believed that "without the shedding of blood there could be no remission of sin." They had not found deliverance from the old and pagan idea that the Gods could not be appeased except by the sight of blood, though Moses did make a distinct advance when he forbade human sacrifices and substituted therefore, in the primitive minds of his childlike Bedouin followers, the ceremonial sacrifice of animals. [4:5:5]
The public announcement that Jesus had selected our planet as the theater for his seventh and final bestowal was made shortly after the default of Adam and Eve, about thirty-eight thousand years ago.
During Jesus’ bestowal on earth the eyes of all celestial personalities in our local universe were focused on our planet.Mortals have varying concepts of the miraculous, but to us [celestial personalities] who live as citizens of the local universe there are few miracles, and of these by far the most intriguing are the incarnational bestowals of the Paradise Sons. The appearance in and on your world, by apparently natural processes, of a divine Son, we regard as a miracle--the operation of universal laws beyond our understanding. Jesus of Nazareth was a miraculous person.
[119:0:4-7 ~ 7:2,4 ~ 8:1,2] [120:4:5]The bestowal of a Paradise Son on your world was inherent in the situation of closing a planetary age; it was inescapable, and it was not made necessary for the purpose of winning the favor of God. This bestowal also happened to be the final personal act of a Creator Son in the long adventure of earning the experiential sovereignty of his universe. What a travesty upon the infinite character of God! this teaching that his fatherly heart in all its austere coldness and hardness was so untouched by the misfortunes and sorrows of his creatures that his tender mercies were not forthcoming until he saw his blameless Son bleeding and dying upon the cross of Calvary! [4:5:6]
Note: The organization plan for the Grand Universe provides for 700,000 local universes, each ruled by a Creator Son.
There are seven superuniverses in our Grand Universe, each ruled by three Ancients of Days. Orvonton is the name of our superuniverse.
In addition to the seven superuniverses there are the billion worlds of Havona. The worlds of Havona surround Paradise, the dwelling place of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. The stationary Isle of Paradise is located at the geographic center of infinity.
The grand universe number of our world is 5,342,482,337,666. That is the registry number on Paradise, our number in the catalog of the inhabited worlds. It seems we are not alone in the universe.
[Foreword:Introduction:5] [11:0:1 ~ 1:1,2] [15:2:1-12 ~ 3:1 ~ 14:8] [21:1:4]Source: The Urantia Book, published by Uversa Press 2003, a subsidiary of The Urantia Book Fellowship. http://www.urantiabook.org. fellowship@urantiabook.org. Note: Numerous statements in this paper were quoted verbatim from The Urantia Book.
Revised February 5 2005