EVOLUTIONARY man finds it difficult fully to comprehend the significance and to grasp the meanings of evil, error, sin, and iniquity. Man is slow to perceive that contrastive perfection and imperfection produce potential evil; that conflicting truth and falsehood create confusing error; that the divine endowment of freewill choice eventuates in the divergent realms of sin and righteousness; that the persistent pursuit of divinity leads to the kingdom of God as contrasted with its continuous rejection, which leads to the domains of iniquity.
The Gods neither create evil nor permit sin and rebellion. Potential evil is time-existent in a universe embracing differential levels of perfection meanings and values. Sin is potential in all realms where imperfect beings are endowed with the ability to choose between good and evil. The very conflicting presence of truth and untruth, fact and falsehood, constitutes the potentiality of error. The deliberate choice of evil constitutes sin; the willful rejection of truth is error; the persistent pursuit of sin and error is iniquity.
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: LUCIFER was a brilliant primary Lanonandek Son of Nebadon. He
: had experienced service in many systems, had been a high
: counselor of his group, and was distinguished for wisdom,
: sagacity, and efficiency. Lucifer was number 37 of his
: order, and when commissioned by the Melchizedeks, he was
: designated as one of the one hundred most able and
: brilliant personalities in more than seven hundred thousand
: of his kind. From such a magnificent beginning, through
: evil and error, he embraced sin and now is numbered as one
: of three System Sovereigns in Nebadon who have succumbed to
: the urge of self and surrendered to the sophistry of
: spurious personal liberty — rejection of universe
: allegiance and disregard of fraternal obligations,
: blindness to cosmic relationships.
: In the universe of Nebadon, the domain of Christ Michael,
: there are ten thousand systems of inhabited worlds. In all
: the history of Lanonandek Sons, in all their work
: throughout these thousands of systems and at the universe
: headquarters, only three System Sovereigns have ever been
: found in contempt of the government of the Creator Son.
: Lucifer was not an ascendant being; he was a created Son of
: the local universe, and of him it was said: “You were
: perfect in all your ways from the day you were created till
: unrighteousness was found in you.” Many times had he been
: in counsel with the Most Highs of Edentia. And Lucifer
: reigned “upon the holy mountain of God,” the administrative
: mount of Jerusem, for he was the chief executive of a great
: system of 607 inhabited worlds.
: Lucifer was a magnificent being, a brilliant personality; he
: stood next to the Most High Fathers of the constellations
: in the direct line of universe authority. Notwithstanding
: Lucifer’s transgression, subordinate intelligences
: refrained from showing him disrespect and disdain prior to
: Michael’s bestowal on Urantia. Even the archangel of
: Michael, at the time of Moses’ resurrection, “did not bring
: against him an accusing judgment but simply said, ‘the
: Judge rebuke you.’” Judgment in such matters belongs to the
: Ancients of Days, the rulers of the superuniverse.
: Lucifer is now the fallen and deposed Sovereign of Satania.
: Self-contemplation is most disastrous, even to the exalted
: personalities of the celestial world. Of Lucifer it was
: said: “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you
: corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness.” Your
: olden prophet saw his sad estate when he wrote: “How are
: you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How
: are you cast down, you who dared to confuse the worlds!”
: Very little was heard of Lucifer on Urantia owing to the fact
: that he assigned his first lieutenant, Satan, to advocate
: his cause on your planet. Satan was a member of the same
: primary group of Lanonandeks but had never functioned as a
: System Sovereign; he entered fully into the Lucifer
: insurrection. The “devil” is none other than Caligastia,
: the deposed Planetary Prince of Urantia and a Son of the
: secondary order of Lanonandeks. At the time Michael was on
: Urantia in the flesh, Lucifer, Satan, and Caligastia were
: leagued together to effect the miscarriage of his bestowal
: mission. But they signally failed.
: Abaddon was the chief of the staff of Caligastia. He followed
: his master into rebellion and has ever since acted as chief
: executive of the Urantia rebels. Beelzebub was the leader
: of the disloyal midway creatures who allied themselves with
: the forces of the traitorous Caligastia.
: The dragon eventually became the symbolic representation of
: all these evil personages. Upon the triumph of Michael,
: “Gabriel came down from Salvington and bound the dragon
: (all the rebel leaders) for an age.” Of the Jerusem
: seraphic rebels it is written: “And the angels who kept not
: their first estate but left their own habitation, he has
: reserved in sure chains of darkness to the judgment of the
: great day.”
: the causes, the manifesto,the outbreak,nature of the
: conflict,the history, the Son of Man on Earth, present
: status of the rebellion and more , Presented by Manovandet
: Melchizedek, onetime attached to the receivership of
: Urantia. can be listened too here
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