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THE FAITH OF JESUS POINTED THE WAY OF FINALITY OF HUMAN SALVATION

(101:6.8)
The teachings of Jesus constituted the first Urantian religion which so fully embraced a harmonious co-ordination of knowledge, wisdom,
faith,
truth,
and love
as completely and simultaneously to provide temporal tranquillity, intellectual certainty,
moral enlightenment, philosophic stability,
ethical sensitivity, God-consciousness,
and the positive assurance of personal survival.

The faith of Jesus pointed the way to finality of human salvation, to the ultimate of mortal universe attainment, since it provided for:

1. Salvation from material fetters in the personal realization of sonship with God, who is spirit.

2. Salvation from intellectual bondage: man shall know the truth, and the truth shall set him free.

3. Salvation from spiritual blindness, the human realization of the fraternity of mortal beings and the morontian awareness of the brotherhood of all universe creatures; the service-discovery of spiritual reality and the ministry-revelation of the goodness of spirit values.

4. Salvation from incompleteness of self through the attainment of the spirit levels of the universe and through the eventual realization of the harmony of Havona and the perfection of Paradise.

5. Salvation from self, deliverance from the limitations of self-consciousness through the attainment of the cosmic levels of the Supreme mind and by co-ordination with the attainments of all other self-conscious beings.

6. Salvation from time, the achievement of an eternal life of unending progression in God-recognition and God-service.

7. Salvation from the finite, the perfected oneness with Deity in and through the Supreme by which the creature attempts the transcendental discovery of the Ultimate on the postfinaliter levels of the absonite.

(101:6.16)
Such a sevenfold salvation is the equivalent of the completeness and perfection of the realization of the ultimate experience of the Universal Father.

And all this, in potential, is contained within the reality of the faith of the human experience of religion.

And it can be so contained since the faith of Jesus was nourished by, and was revelatory of, even realities beyond the ultimate;

the faith of Jesus approached the status of a universe absolute in so far as such is possible of manifestation in the evolving cosmos of time and space.

(101:6.17)
Through the appropriation of the faith of Jesus, mortal man can foretaste in time the realities of eternity.

Jesus made the discovery, in human experience, of the Final Father, and his brothers in the flesh of mortal life can follow him along this same experience of Father discovery.

They can even attain, as they are, the same satisfaction in this experience with the Father as did Jesus as he was.