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147:3.3
In speaking to those assembled, Jesus said: “Many of you are here, sick and afflicted, because of your many years of wrong living. Some suffer from the accidents of time, others as a result of the mistakes of their forebears, while some of you struggle under the handicaps of the imperfect conditions of your temporal existence. But my Father works, and I would work, to improve your earthly state but more especially to insure your eternal estate. None of us can do much to change the difficulties of life unless we discover the Father in heaven so wills. After all, we are all beholden to do the will of the Eternal. If you could all be healed of your physical afflictions, you would indeed marvel, but it is even greater that you should be cleansed of all spiritual disease and find yourselves healed of all moral infirmities. You are all God’s children; you are the sons of the heavenly Father. The bonds of time may seem to afflict you, but the God of eternity loves you. And when the time of judgment shall come, fear not, you shall all find, not only justice, but an abundance of mercy. Verily, verily, I say to you: He who hears the gospel of the kingdom and believes in this teaching of sonship with God, has eternal life; already are such believers passing from judgment and death to light and life. And the hour is coming in which even those who are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the resurrection.”

Improve?
There’s beauty in the air around us.
Winter has yet to surround us!
Gradually the world does tilt.
It’s quite the world that You have built!

A harmony of all Your forces.
Life’s a lesson – many courses!
As we live, it’s said we learn.
To do His will’s what we discern!

A gradual change occurs within.
Decisions for God’s will begin!
Work towards the best you can imagine.
To do what’s right’s not out of fashion!

Trust the Lord! He loves you most!
He’s truly real! He is no ghost!
He’s with you in the dead of night.
He’ll help through trials. Do what’s right!

If you have a sincere heart
And truly try to do your part,
You will learn God’s fact of will.
You can acquire God-like skill!

Improvement is its own reward.
It happens when you love the Lord!
As you learn to do His will
You acquire loving skills!

Thank You Father, adventure calls.
Decisions can give new resolve!
This day exists for us to use.
Let’s help this world be Spirit infused!
147:3.3
In speaking to those assembled, Jesus said: “Many of you are here, sick and afflicted, because of your many years of wrong living. Some suffer from the accidents of time, others as a result of the mistakes of their forebears, while some of you struggle under the handicaps of the imperfect conditions of your temporal existence. But my Father works, and I would work, to improve your earthly state but more especially to insure your eternal estate. None of us can do much to change the difficulties of life unless we discover the Father in heaven so wills. After all, we are all beholden to do the will of the Eternal. If you could all be healed of your physical afflictions, you would indeed marvel, but it is even greater that you should be cleansed of all spiritual disease and find yourselves healed of all moral infirmities. You are all God’s children; you are the sons of the heavenly Father. The bonds of time may seem to afflict you, but the God of eternity loves you. And when the time of judgment shall come, fear not, you shall all find, not only justice, but an abundance of mercy. Verily, verily, I say to you: He who hears the gospel of the kingdom and believes in this teaching of sonship with God, has eternal life; already are such believers passing from judgment and death to light and life. And the hour is coming in which even those who are in the tombs shall hear the voice of the resurrection.”

Improve?
There’s beauty in the air around us.
Winter has yet to surround us!
Gradually the world does tilt.
It’s quite the world that You have built!

A harmony of all Your forces.
Life’s a lesson – many courses!
As we live, it’s said we learn.
To do His will’s what we discern!

A gradual change occurs within.
Decisions for God’s will begin!
Work towards the best you can imagine.
To do what’s right’s not out of fashion!

Trust the Lord! He loves you most!
He’s truly real! He is no ghost!
He’s with you in the dead of night.
He’ll help through trials. Do what’s right!

If you have a sincere heart
And truly try to do your part,
You will learn God’s fact of will.
You can acquire God-like skill!

Improvement is its own reward.
It happens when you love the Lord!
As you learn to do His will
You acquire loving skills!

Thank You Father, adventure calls.
Decisions can give new resolve!
This day exists for us to use.
Let’s help this world be Spirit infused!

The Freshman Test of Knowledge of The [Urantia] Papers

Please provide all fifty (50) responses:

1–3. Name the three persons of Deity.
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4. Name the dwelling place of God.
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5–7. Name the three energies.
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8. What is the name of the central universe?
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9. What is the name of our superuniverse?
9.
10. What is the name of our local universe?
10.

11. How many superuniverses are there?
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12. How many major sectors are there?
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13. How many minor sectors are there?
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14. How many local universes are there in a minor sector?
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15. What is the name of our constellation?
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16. What is the name of the capital of our superuniverse?
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17. What is the name of the capital of our local universe?
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18. What is the name of the capital of our constellation?
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19. How many constellations are there in our local universe?
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20. What is the name of our local system?
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21. How many local systems are there in a constellation?
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22. What is the name of the capital of our local system?
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23. How many inhabited worlds are there in a completed local system?
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24. How many inhabited worlds are there now in our local system?
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25. Who is the chief executive of our local universe?
25.
26. Who is the sovereign of our local universe?
26.
27. Who are the rulers of the superuniverse?
27.
28. Who are the rulers of the major sectors?
28.
29. Who are the rulers of the minor sectors?
29.
30. Who is the system sovereign of our local system?
30.
31. Who was his predecessor in authority? (Who was the former system sovereign?)
31.
32. Who is now the planetary prince of Urantia?
32.
33. Who was the planetary Prince of Urantia?
33.
34. What was the name of the Melchizedek who taught at Salem?
34.
35. Who was the chief human follower of this Melchizedek?
35.
36. Who was the chief opponent of our rebelling planetary prince?
36.

37–38. Who were the first two human beings?
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39–50. Name the 12 apostles.
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Bonus. What is the companion of the Creator Son called?
Bonus.

ABOUT FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND
The Urantia Book; Paper 152, Section 2

P1700:2, 152:2.1 Jesus continued to teach the people by day while he instructed the apostles and evangelists at night. On Friday he declared a furlough of one week that all his followers might go home or to their friends for a few days before preparing to go up to Jerusalem for the Passover. But more than one half of his disciples refused to leave him, and the multitude was daily increasing in size, so much so that David Zebedee desired to establish a new encampment, but Jesus refused consent. The Master had so little rest over the Sabbath that on Sunday morning, March 27, he sought to get away from the people. Some of the evangelists were left to talk to the multitude while Jesus and the twelve planned to escape, unnoticed, to the opposite shore of the lake, where they proposed to obtain much needed rest in a beautiful park south of Bethsaida-Julias. This region was a favorite resorting place for Capernaum folks; they were all familiar with these parks on the eastern shore.

P1700:3, 152:2.2 But the people would not have it so. They saw the direction taken by Jesus' boat, and hiring every craft available, they started out in pursuit. Those who could not obtain boats fared forth on foot to walk around the upper end of the lake.

P1700:4, 152:2.3 By late afternoon more than a thousand persons had located the Master in one of the parks, and he spoke to them briefly, being followed by Peter. Many of these people had brought food with them, and after eating the evening meal, they gathered about in small groups while Jesus' apostles and disciples taught them.

P1700:5, 152:2.4 Monday afternoon the multitude had increased to more than three thousand. And still -- way into the evening -- the people continued to flock in, bringing all manner of sick folks with them. Hundreds of interested persons had made their plans to stop over at Capernaum to see and hear Jesus on their way to the Passover, and they simply refused to be disappointed. By Wednesday noon about five thousand men, women, and children were assembled here in this park to the south of Bethsaida-Julias. The weather was pleasant, it being near the end of the rainy season in this locality.

P1700:6, 152:2.5 Philip had provided a three days' supply of food for Jesus and the twelve, which was in the custody of the Mark lad, their boy of all chores. By afternoon of this, the third day for almost half of this multitude, the food the people had brought with them was nearly exhausted. David Zebedee had no tented city here to feed and accommodate the crowds. Neither had Philip made food provision for such a multitude. But the people, even though they were hungry, would not go away. It was being quietly whispered about that Jesus, desiring to avoid trouble with both Herod and the Jerusalem leaders, had chosen this quiet spot outside the jurisdiction of all his enemies as the proper place to be crowned king. The enthusiasm of the people was rising every hour. Not a word was said to Jesus, though, of course, he knew all that was going on. Even the twelve apostles were still tainted with such notions, and especially the younger evangelists. The apostles who favored this attempt to proclaim Jesus king were Peter, John, Simon Zelotes, and Judas Iscariot. Those opposing the plan were Andrew, James, Nathaniel, and Thomas. Matthew, Philip, and the Alpheus twins were noncommittal. The ringleader of this plot to make him king was Joab, one of the young evangelists.

P1701:1, 152:2.6 This was the stage setting about five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, when Jesus asked James Alpheus to summon Andrew and Philip. Said Jesus: "What shall we do with the multitude? They have been with us now three days, and many of them are hungry. They have no food." Philip and Andrew exchanged glances, and then Philip answered: "Master, you should send these people away so that they may go to the villages around about and buy themselves food." And Andrew, fearing the materialization of the king plot, quickly joined with Philip, saying: "Yes, Master, I think it best that you dismiss the multitude so that they may go their way and buy food while you secure rest for a season." By this time others of the twelve had joined the conference. Then said Jesus: "But I do not desire to send them away hungry; can you not feed them?" This was too much for Philip, and he spoke right up: "Master, in this country place where can we buy bread for this multitude? Two hundred denarii worth would not be enough for lunch."

P1701:2, 152:2.7 Before the apostles had an opportunity to express themselves, Jesus turned to Andrew and Philip, saying: "I do not want to send these people away. Here they are, like sheep without a shepherd. I would like to feed them. What food have we with us?" While Philip was conversing with Matthew and Judas, Andrew sought out the Mark lad to ascertain how much was left of their store of provisions. He returned to Jesus, saying: "The lad has left only five barley loaves and two dried fishes" -- and Peter promptly added, "We have yet to eat this evening."

P1701:3, 152:2.8 For a moment Jesus stood in silence. There was a faraway look in his eyes. The apostles said nothing. Jesus turned suddenly to Andrew and said, "Bring me the loaves and fishes." And when Andrew had brought the basket to Jesus, the Master said: "Direct the people to sit down on the grass in companies of one hundred and appoint a leader over each group while you bring all of the evangelists here with us."

P1701:4, 152:2.9 Jesus took up the loaves in his hands, and after he had given thanks, he broke the bread and gave to his apostles, who passed it on to their associates, who in turn carried it to the multitude. Jesus in like manner broke and distributed the fishes. And this multitude did eat and were filled. And when they had finished eating, Jesus said to the disciples: "Gather up the broken pieces that remain over so that nothing will be lost." And when they had finished gathering up the fragments, they had twelve basketfuls. They who ate of this extraordinary feast numbered about five thousand men, women, and children.

P1702:1, 152:2.10 And this is the first and only nature miracle which Jesus performed as a result of his conscious preplanning. It is true that his disciples were disposed to call many things miracles which were not, but this was a genuine supernatural ministration. In this case, so we were taught, Michael multiplied food elements as he always does except for the elimination of the time factor and the visible life channel.

One student of Ub here today, asked me a question. Is really God a thought adjuster as in urantia book? I answered him like this,

- Yes he is Its literally true that God dwells within you - in your heart and in your mind. This divine presence is called the "Thought Adjuster." By listening to the "still, small voice" within your own mind, you can become assured of this eternal truth.
God's love for his mortal children is so encompassing so far-reaching, that he makes himself completely available to every individual mortal through the ministry of mind; this simply means that a fragment - a "spark" - of God literally indwells your mind, thus allowing God to experience in the most intimate way, your day-to-day life with you, good and bad. In turn, we mortals are allowed to experience in our inmost beings the reality of God - his goodness, his love and his joy. As we strive more and more to find him within our hearts, he becomes just that much more real in our experience. We live in God, and God does, literally, live in us. The Urantia Book designates this fragment of God the Thought Adjuster. Its job is to help attune our thoughts and our minds towards the recognition of the always desirable will of God. "It is your thoughts, not your feelings, that lead you Godward." Said Jesus: "No more shall suffering mortals be denied the comfort of knowing the love of God and understanding the mercy of the Father in heaven. While the speech of God spoken from the whirlwind was a majestic concept for the day of its utterance, you have already learned that the Father does not thus reveal himself, but rather that he speaks within the human heart as a still, small voice, saying, `This is the way; walk therein.' Do you not comprehend that God dwells within you, that he has become what you are that he may make you what he is!" ~ See The Urantia Book, (148:6.10) about this.

This is such a beautiful statement, and so plainly said - Jesus did not use ambigious language(equivocate). What a comfort - what a joy - what a solid foundation upon which to build a strong faith and a life of truth, beauty and goodness...to know for certain that we go in partnership with the very Creator of all that is! And when we come to know - and experience - this saving fact of the Father's indwelling presence, it can transform a mediocre life into one of renewed purpose, grace and goodness.

About the thought adjusters i gave him the following papers to read in the Urantia book, to understand and have knowledge, about Is really God a thought adjuster.

Paper 107 - The Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters
Paper 107 - The Origin and Nature of Thought Adjusters
Paper 108 - Mission and Ministry of Thought Adjusters
Paper 109 - Relation of Thought Adjusters to Universe Creatures
Paper 110 - Relation of Adjusters to Individual Mortals
Paper 111 - The Adjuster and the Soul
Your's faithfully,
Gumisiriza Julius