The Trinity facilitates the Father’s escape from personality absolutism.
The Trinity associates God’s infinite will with the absoluteness of Deity.
The Son and the Spirit provide for the Father’s liberation from the limitations of primacy, perfection, changelessness, eternity, universality, absoluteness, infinity.
¶ II. UB 10:0.2 — “The Paradise Trinity effectively…”
REFERENCE: UB 10:0.2 — “The Paradise Trinity effectively…”
COMMENT
The Trinity provides for the full revelation of Deity.
The Stationary Sons of the Trinity provide for the full revelation of justice.
The Universal Censor depicts various Trinity associations and explains why universe reality appears in seven variations of values, meanings, and personality.
REFERENCE: UB 10:3.1 — “Notwithstanding there is…”
COMMENT
There is only one Deity—but three personalizations.
In endowing man with the Adjuster, God said: “Let us make man in our own image.” This is Gen 1:26. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’”
Note: Plural Deity. The Creator addresses an equal—”us.” Thus, the first chapter of our Bible recognizes the Trinity.
The Paradise Trinity is the first trinity. The members of a triunity are partners rather than corporative, but the triunity itself is an association. The Father, Son, and Spirit make up the first triunity.
God functions as absolute Deity only in the Trinity and in relation to universe totality.
Trinity attitudes may be presented in three groups:
Attitude toward the Finite. Trinity attitude toward the finite can best be understood by observation of the emerging Supreme Being. The Paradise Trinity in relation to the finite level is referred to as the Trinity of Supremacy.
Attitude toward the Absonite. This attitude may be comprehended by observation of the Ultimate. This relationship has been referred to as the Trinity of Ultimacy.
The Absolute Attitude. This represents the final action of total Deity.
The three persons of Deity are equal to each other and they are one. “The Lord our God is one God.” See Deut 6:4. “Hear, O Israel: The
There is perfection of purpose and oneness of execution in the acts of the Trinity.
The Father, Son, and Spirit are one. See Isa 44:6. “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel…’I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.’”
The Trinity appears to be concerned only with totals—planets or universes. This totality attitude derives from the fact that the Trinity is total Deity.
While many mysterious things work out for the welfare of the universe, there are events which are hard to understand, such as: physical catastrophes, appalling accidents, horrific disasters, painful illnesses, and world-wide scourges.
Maybe these inexplicable vicissitudes of living are all meaningful in the overcontrol of the Supreme and the Trinity.
As sons of God, mortals can comprehend the love attitude of the Father, but they cannot always recognize the acts of the Trinity as being meaningful and considerate.
The relation of the Trinity to the Supreme Being is discussed in several papers and numerous passages.
The word “Trinity” first appears in Greek in A.D. 181, used by Theophilus of Antioch. The Latin word from which we derive our English was first used by Tertullian in A.D. 200. There are other common theologic words not found in the Bible, for example, incarnation.
Gen 1:26. “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’” Isa 63:10. “They rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit.” Isa 6:3. “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts.” Num 6:24-26. “The Lord bless you and keep you:
The Lord make his face to shine upon you…
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you…”
Eph 2:18. “Through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” Acts 2:33. “Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit.”
Absolute Unity. “In the Paradise Trinity there is absolute unity despite the eternal identities of the co-ordinates of God.” UB 2:6.7
The Trinity as Creators. “The Paradise Trinity is existent. The stage of universal space is set for the manifold and never-ending panorama of the creative unfolding of the purpose of the Universal Father through the personality of the Eternal Son and by the execution of the God of Action, the executive agency for the reality performances of the Father-Son creator partnership.” UB 8:1.3
Trinity as Ancestor of Ancients of Days. “The Ancients of Days are all basically identical; they disclose the combined character and unified nature of the Trinity. They possess individuality and are in personality diverse, but they do not differ from each other as do the Seven Master Spirits. They provide the uniform directorship of the otherwise differing seven superuniverses, each of which is a distinct, segregated, and unique creation. The Seven Master Spirits are unlike in nature and attributes, but the Ancients of Days, the personal rulers of the superuniverses, are all uniform and superperfect offspring of the Paradise Trinity.” UB 18:3.2
The Trinity Emblem. “In personal appearance, Melchizedek resembled the then blended Nodite and Sumerian peoples, being almost six feet in height and possessing a commanding presence. He spoke Chaldean and a half dozen other languages. He dressed much as did the Canaanite priests except that on his breast he wore an emblem of three concentric circles, the Satania symbol of the Paradise Trinity. In the course of his ministry this insignia of three concentric circles became regarded as so sacred by his followers that they never dared to use it, and it was soon forgotten with the passing of a few generations.” UB 93:2.5
The whole of Paper 104 UB 104:0.1 is devoted to the growth of the Trinity concept on Urantia.
Relation to the Supreme Being. “The source of the Supreme is in the Paradise Trinity—eternal, actual, and undivided Deity. The Supreme is first of all a spirit person, and this spirit person stems from the Trinity. But the Supreme is secondly a Deity of growth—evolutionary growth—and this growth derives from the two triodities, actual and potential.” UB 115:4.2
The Trinity Was Inevitable. “The Paradise Trinity is considered to be the absolute inevitability; the Seven Master Spirits are apparently Trinity inevitabilities; the power-mind-spirit-personality actualization of the Supreme must be the evolutionary inevitability.” UB 115:7.5
The Finaliter Oath is to the Trinity. “When mortal ascenders are admitted to the finaliter corps of Paradise, they take an oath to the Paradise Trinity, and in taking this oath of allegiance, they are thereby pledging eternal fidelity to God the Supreme, who is the Trinity as comprehended by all finite creature personalities. Subsequently, as the companies function throughout the evolving universes, they are solely amenable to the mandates of Paradise origin until the eventful times of the settling of local universes in light and life. As the new governmental organizations of these perfected creations begin to be reflective of the emerging sovereignty of the Supreme, we observe that the outlying finaliter companies then acknowledge the jurisdictional authority of such new governments. It appears that God the Supreme is evolving as the unifier of the evolutionary Corps of the Finality, but it is highly probable that the eternal destiny of these seven corps will be directed by the Supreme as a member of the Ultimate Trinity.” UB 117:7.7