Article April 9, 1904 Issue

The Inconsistency of Human Beliefs

Alfred Farlow

Boston Times

Few realize the inconsistency of the accepted beliefs of the individual until they undertake to formulate them into a system and make them harmonize with a given rule. To illustrate: The physical senses positively and uncompromisingly deny the existence of Spirit, yet Christians hold rigidly to the belief that there is such a being as the Holy Spirit, notwithstanding that in so doing they are discrediting the sense testimony.

Christian Science, consistently with the proposition that God is Spirit, affirms that the creation of Spirit is spiritual, and, therefore, is not material; yet some of the same thinkers who have already repudiated the material testimony in order to believe that God is Spirit, throw up their hands in horror at the inevitable deduction therefrom, that matter is unreal, though it is only another form of the declaration that creation is spiritual.

If Bible students believe in the validity of sense testimony, they will be unable to accept the Scriptural teaching concerning God as Spirit. If, on the other hand, they adhere consistently to the Scriptural teaching, "God is Spirit," accepting only such ideas as are in harmony therewith, they will have to repudiate the testimony of the five senses and they will thereby endorse Christian Science.

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