At Salvation, Is Your Spirit Recreated or Liberated?
Jesus said, "I am on earth solely to comfort the minds, liberate the spirits, and save the souls of men." (Urantia Book 140:6.6)
Of the spirit, your indwelling spirit, it is written, "At some time, during human sleep, has been temporarily detached from the mind of mortal incarceration to perform some exploit of liaison, contact, reregistration, or other extrahuman service associated with the spiritual administration of the world of assignment." (Urantia Book 109:2.6)
"Truly of the human race has it been said, “You are of God” because “he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration." - Urantia Book 3:1.5
At salvation, who gets born again: your soul or your spirit? Jesus said, "I am on earth solely to comfort the minds, liberate the spirits, and save the souls of men." Clearly, the Master made a distinction between the mind, the spirit and the soul.
Ezekiel puts it rightly in saying: the soul that sins, shall die. (Ezekiel 18:20) The prophet did not say the human spirit that sins shall die. Nowhere will you find God saying that your spirit, the still small voice within (1 Kings 19:12), can die or shall die. It's not possible because your spirit (Job 32:8) is perfect and came directly from the heavenly Father. And this same spirit returns to The Father at the death of your physical body. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)
This spirit is God the Father within you and lives in the golden holy of holies deep within you or in the superconscious level of your mind. Sin does not exist there. It is perfectly clean in there. Pure. Golden. Pure, pristine gold. This is the Father's presence within. The First Source and Divine Center within.
However, this spirit within - your spirit, depends on your will before it can act freely to bring all kinds of blessings to your total mind and your soul. The spirit will not force anything on you. Your cooperation is needed. You have to align your heart, your will and your way to that of God and to do so wholeheartedly. Then, the spirit will emerge from the innermost temple or innermost court within, to manifest greatly in your life: in your mind, your heart, your soul - to manifest through you mightily to the glory of God the Father.
The spirit sits at the citadel of your being - the citadel of the spirit, the throne within waiting patiently for you to grant permission. So, when you - your soul gets born again or born from above, the indwelling spirit fragment of God is liberated! In accepting the Father's gift of salvation, you have aligned your will with that of God. When you make a decision, to, as it were, surrender all to God, his spirit will latch onto your personality and your will to do more work in you, for you and with you. This is why you sense or perceive a great liberation of your spirit at the new birth (salvation). Your spirit is liberated NOT recreated. Liberate is the right word not recreate. Your spirit receives more freedom to soar and do so much more for you and through you. Your spirit, the Inner Voice, is, in that sense, set free.
It is not that the spirit was in chains, in bondage, in darkness. No! There's no darkness in the holy of holies within. There's no darkness in the superconscious level of your mind. Only light! However, the inner spirit can be said to be restricted or incarcerated within you because of the limitations placed upon it for the very fact that it has come to live inside a circumscribed mortal body and by design, is dependent on your will or cooperation in oder to fully express itself through you.
I have chosen to use the word, "it" for the indwelling spirit because by design, this spirit from the Father is "prepersonal". It has come into you with no personality of its own and is dependent on your personality to live through you. The still small voice is dependent on both your personality and your will in order to bless you mightily... ...Dependent or waits for you to use your will to align with its will - the will of God. These are some reasons why your spirit, your Thought Adjuster is said to be in the mind of mortal incarceration. The spirit is incarcerated in your mind. And will experience more and more liberation to do more work for you and through you, the more you align your will with the Father's will.
Please remember, your spirit does not get born again. It is your soul that gets born again or recreated (if you like that word). Your spirit cannot be recreated. That's God in you and God cannot be recreated. However, your spirit can be liberated! The spirit can be liberated in the context of the explanation above.
Glory! Hallelujah!
One Love!
- Pastor Karo Kanye Akamune.
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Dear Pastor Akamune,
Thank you again for your thoughtful message—it's clear we both share a deep love for spiritual truths and a desire to understand God's infinite mercy. I appreciate how you distinguish between the soul and the indwelling spirit, drawing from both the Bible and The Urantia Papers.
Your emphasis on the spirit's perfection and return to the Father resonates strongly, and it's a beautiful reminder of divine presence within us. Let's explore this gently together, as fellow seekers, using the revelation's insights to clarify.
You're correct that the Divine Pilot—the "still small voice" or Divine Spirit Fragment from the Father (Paper 107:0.1)—is perfect and completely unaffected by sin. It returns to the Father upon death if fusion hasn't occurred (Paper 112:3.7). However, the Faithful Pilot's full effectiveness in guiding us depends on our active cooperation through faith. As book states: "The Adjuster is truly the path to Paradise, but man must be willing to walk that path, and the Adjuster must be permitted to guide him" (110:4.3). T
his requires calming the mind via prayer, worship, or stillness to hear its leadings (91:5.3: "In the choosing of truth consequent to the exercise of faith, man experiences the potential of personality unification"). Without this faith-act, contact remains limited, though the Inner Bastion patiently waits (110:7.7: "Adjusters rejoice to make contact... but they must be patient through the long years of silent sojourn").
On Ezekiel 18:20 ("the soul that sins, shall die"): the Papers don't directly quote or verify this, as it views Old Testament teachings as part of evolutionary religion—valuable but incomplete (92:4.4). We are actually gifted with a huge amount of information on how the biblical scriptures came into existence. Instead, it reframes "spiritual death" as non-survival, not inevitable punishment but a free-will choice.
The soul (morontia entity co-created by mind and God's Spirit; 111:2.4) can cease to exist if we persistently reject God's will through iniquity (willful sin against truth; 112:3.2: "Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival...").
The Father never arbitrarily destroys souls with survival potential: "God has decreed the sovereignty of the material and mortal will, and that decree is absolute" (5:6.8). Even the smallest flicker of faith ensures survival as a "sleeping survivor" (112:5.3: "Mortal identity is a transient time-life condition... it is real only insofar as the personality elects to become a continuing universe phenomenon"). No normal human indwelt by the seven adjutant mind-spirits (36:5) and TA faces eternal "death" without choice—mercy prevails (Paper 2:3.2: God offers "eternal survival" to all who seek it).
In salvation terms, UB describes being "born again" as spiritual rebirth, where the soul aligns with the Actual Fragment of the Existential Cause of the Total Cosmos (193:0.3: "You must be reborn of the spirit"). The Citadel of the Spirit isn't recreated but liberated through our will-alignment (110:3.1). Sin torments the Interpreter but doesn't destroy it or the soul unless rejection is final (3:1.5: "Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God"). This underscores God's mercy: "The Father's heart never closes to the needs and petitions of His children" (5:1.11).
I share this mercifully, not to debate, but to build understanding—The Urantia Book complements the Bible's wisdom with cosmic context. Let's continue exploring; what resonates most with you?
One of our seasoned students, David Kantor, has recently primiered a major film, When Stories Die: Christianity's Crisis and the Urantia Papers, which I can imagine you might find fascinating.
With brotherly love,
Oliver
PS: The book uses a myriads of names and expression for the Mystery Monitor:
Actual Fragment of the Existential Cause of the Total Cosmos (known on Urantia)
All-Knower
Beloved One
Citadel of the Spirit
Divine Indweller
Divine in Man
Divine Lover
Divine Pilot
Divine Spark
Dominion of the Spirit
Evaluator
Faithful Pilot
Fragment of God
Fragment of the Universal Father
God Fragment
God Spirit
Indwelling Presence
Indwelling Spirit Fragment of the Universal Father
Inner Bastion
Interpreter
Immortal Germ
Kingdom of heaven within you
Light of Life (known on Uversa)
Loving Pilot
Mystery Monitor
Perfect Guide
Pilot Light (name in universe of Nebadon)
Spirit of Divinity
Spirit of the Father
Spirit Leading
Still Small Voice
Thought Adjuster
Thought Controller
True light which lights every man who comes into the world
OTHER SOURCES THAN THE UB:
Indwelling Guide
Inner Guide
Onboard Partner
Higher Frequency
Voice Within
Wisdom Within
Guide Within
Teacher Within
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