© 1995 The Brotherhood of Man Library
Answers from The Urantia Book.
Q. What is will?
Ans. Will is the deliberate choice of a self- conscious being.
Q. What is the will of God?
Ans. The will of God is the way of God, partnership with the choice of God.
Q. How can we know what the choice of God would be?
Ans. Ask ourselves, “What would Jesus have done?”
Q. And how can we know what Jesus would have done?
Ans. One of the most important things in human living is. . . to know the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it. (UB 196:1.3)
Q. How can we do the will of God?
Ans. We do the will of God by becoming more and more God-like.
Q. What is God-like?
Ans. Like Jesus.
Q. If we do all this, what then?
Ans. We will discover that all men and women are our brothers and sisters.
Q. What will that mean?
Ans. We will enjoy knowing them—knowing their problems and by doing so, getting to understand them.
Q. Why would we want to do that?
Ans. In doing so we will learn to love them.
Q. And?
Ans. We will begin to enjoy the supreme experience of living.
Food for Thought
Jesus was interested only in the individual—not the mass. (UB 140:8.11)
Real families are built upon tolerance, patience, and forgiveness.
Michael of Nebadon