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SearchUnquestioning Trust and Faith
Jesus did not cling to faith in God as would a struggling soul at war with the universe and at
death grips with a hostile and sinful world; he did not resort to faith merely as a consolation in
the midst of difficulties or as a comfort in threatened despair; faith was not just an illusory
compensation for the unpleasant realities and the sorrows of living. In the very face of all the
natural difficulties and the temporal contradictions of mortal existence, he experienced the
tranquility of supreme and unquestioned trust in God and felt the tremendous thrill of living, by
faith, in the very presence of the heavenly Father. And this triumphant faith was a living
experience of actual spirit attainment. Jesus‘ great contribution to the values of human
experience was not that he revealed so many new ideas about the Father in heaven, but rather
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that he so magnificently and humanly demonstrated a new and higher type of living faith in God.
Never on all the worlds of this universe, in the life of any one mortal, did God ever become such
a living reality as in the human experience of Jesus of Nazareth.
In the Master‘s life on Urantia, this and all other worlds of the local creation discover a new and
higher type of religion, religion based on personal spiritual relations with the Universal Father
and wholly validated by the supreme authority of genuine personal experience. This living faith
of Jesus was more than an intellectual reflection, and it was not a mystic meditation.
Theology may fix, formulate, define, and dogmatize faith, but in the human life of Jesus faith
was personal, living, original, spontaneous, and purely spiritual. This faith was not reverence for
tradition nor a mere intellectual belief which he held as a sacred creed, but rather a sublime
experience and a profound conviction which securely held him. His faith was so real and allencompassing that it absolutely swept away any spiritual doubts and effectively destroyed every
conflicting desire. Nothing was able to tear him away from the spiritual anchorage of this
fervent, sublime, and undaunted faith. Even in the face of apparent defeat or in the throes of
disappointment and threatening despair, he calmly stood in the divine presence free from fear
and fully conscious of spiritual invincibility. Jesus enjoyed the invigorating assurance of the
possession of unflinching faith, and in each of life‘s trying situations he unfailingly exhibited an
unquestioning loyalty to the Father‘s will. And this superb faith was undaunted even by the cruel
and crushing threat of an ignominious death.
In a religious genius, strong spiritual faith so many times leads directly to disastrous fanaticism,
to exaggeration of the religious ego, but it was not so with Jesus. He was not unfavorably
affected in his practical life by his extraordinary faith and spirit attainment because this spiritual
exaltation was a wholly unconscious and spontaneous soul expression of his personal experience
with God.