Foreword Paper 2
See Etymology of Coined Terminology.
Introduction
p3,6: Be you perfect See cross-reference study: Be you perfect.
Section 1: The Father’s Name
See Halbert Katzen’s short essay In the Name of the Father, which develops a philosophical foundation for using the word Father for God that focuses in on the parental, personal, and freewill nature of our relationship to God.
Section 2: The Reality of God
p2: “the noblest work of man”: The words “An honest God is the noblest work of man.” belong to an American lawyer Robert Green Ingersoll, nicknamed “The Great Agnostic” (1833–1899). Wikipedia page: Ingersoll.
Section 3: God is a Universal Spirit
p2: See cross-reference study: Seer(s).
Section 4: The Mystery of God
p6: See Topical Study page: Abortion and resurrection for the unborn.
no respecter of persons See Topical Study page: No respecter of persons.
Section 5: Personality of the Universal Father
p1: 1955 version reads, “He who planned the ear, shall he not hear?” SRTC commentary, “This is a new item raised by a translator. No revision has been made here in any edition of the Urantia Book but the translator noted, correctly, that most English translations of the Bible read “planted” here (Psalms 94:9) and none read “planned.” Because “planted” seems quite stilted and obscure, “planned” would have been an easy typographical error to make. The committee determined, however, that “planned” does no injustice to the meaning of the passage in the Greek of the Septuagint and reads very well, so there is no reason to change the UB to match the common but obscure translation found in most English Bibles.”
p16: “in Him we all live and move and have our being.”, cf. Acts 17:28: “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.” Here, by “certain also of your own poets” Paul is probably referring to Aratus (315–240 B.C.) who wrote in Φαινόμενα 4–5: “Everywhere everyone is indebted to Zeus. For we are indeed his offspring.” —Tigran Aivazian annotation from the British Study Edition of The Urantia Book.
Section 6: Personality in the Universe
Section 7: Spiritual Value of the Personality Concept
p2: water See Marjorie Ray’s presentation on water at the 2016 Scientific Symposium held at Urantia Foundation. Watch a video showing the peculiar relationship that your editor has to ice spikes or Halbertcicles, as I like to call them. Here’s one I call “The Spherical Cube”:
p9: See Cross-reference page: I Know Whereof I Speak.
Additional notes:
Matthew Block suggests that the following authors were influential in writing of this Paper and has prepared a parallel chart:
Orville J. Nave, A.M., D.D., LL.D., Nave’s Topical Bible: A Digest of the Holy Scriptures (New York: Topical Bible Publishing Company, from press of Eaton & Mains, 1896, 1897) Hathi Trust Digital Library copy. Wikipedia page: Nave.
Albert C. Knudson, The Doctrine of God (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1930) Hathi Trust Digital Library copy. Wikipedia page: Knudson.
W. R. Matthews, K.C.V.O., D.D., D.Lit., God in Christian Thought and Experience (London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1930) Wikipedia page: Matthews.
J. R. Illingworth, M.A., Personality Human and Divine (London and New York: The Macmillan Company, 1894) Hathi Trust Digital Library copy.