Fatherhood: All Relationships Stem from Our Relationship with God

We invite you to join this week's guest, Verner Verass, to discuss cosmic fatherhood.
Verner is a 40-plus-year reader who grew up in Australia, the son of Latvian emigrants. A father of four adult children, he knows the value and trials of parenting.
Arguably, The Urantia Book 's and Jesus’ saving keynote message—the gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man—puts a premium on the values of family, marriage, child-rearing, love and service of our fellows. Human paternal relationships featured are expressive of the full gamut of individual and social experience and are covered with particular emphasis placed on the father-child/creature-creator relationship. 

The historical development of the father concept as presented in prior epochs are featured, from the example of the home life of the Prince’s staff, to the family life of Adam and Eve, to the family life of Jesus; Verner will explore these with us.

It is intended that we mortals who start our universe journey on an inhabited world come to experience seven fathers as we ascend.

Parenting is an essential experience each ascending mortal must have. In this way, the creature can better appreciate the Creator perspective.

The Father’s love follows us now and through the endless circle of the eternal ages. As you ponder the loving nature of God, there is only one reasonable and natural personality reaction thereto: You will incresaingly love your maker; you will yield to God an affection analogous to that given by a child to an earthly parent; for as a father a real father, a true father, loves his children, so the Universal Father loves and forever seeks the welfare of his created sons and daughters. [Paper 2:5.9, page 40:1]

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