Article March 13, 1909 Issue

The personality of God in the largest, broadest sense is...

W. C. Williams

Baltimore American

The personality of God in the largest, broadest sense is not denied by Christian Science, but person in the ordinary sense could not compass unlimited power everywhere at the same moment, as does an omnipotent, omnipresent God. Sin is very real to most of us, until we have proven its nothingness by overcoming it. It is unreal in the sense that it is temporal and not created by God, as God's creations are good only, as the Scriptures declare. Sin is unreal in the sense that nothing is real that God did not create, and all reality is eternal.

The word "atonement" is found only once in the New Testament, in Romans v. 11: "And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement;" and this is given in the margin of the authorized edition of the Scriptures as "reconciliation." The same Greek word that is translated as "atonement" in the foregoing is given in 2 Corinthians v., in both the eighteenth and nineteenth verses, as "reconciliation." This reconciliation, this bringing God nearer to man and man nearer to the Father, by showing mankind that God is their ever-present help and protector was Jesus' great work, which Christian Scientists not only do not deny, but emulate as far as possible in their teaching and practice.

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