Article April 22, 1922 Issue

The terms used by Mrs. Eddy to define God are synonymous

W. K. Primrose—England

Hackney and Stoke Newington Recorder

The terms used by Mrs. Eddy to define God are synonymous. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 465), "They refer to one absolute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness of Deity. The attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on."

Christian Science teaches (in accordance with the Bible—Habakkuk 1:13) that God does not know evil. Matter is the exact opposite of Spirit; but because God does not create either evil or matter, that does not deny that the power of God is infinite, as the correspondent supposes. On the contrary, if room for evil could be found in God, good, God, good, would not be infinite—there would be a place where He was not.

Christian Science further teaches that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health, p. 468), and that "man is the expression of God's being" (p. 470). This does not mean that Christian Scientists calmly put aside mortals and the material universe as nonexistent to the physical sense, or adopt an attitude in regard to them which they have not made their own—far from it. They do know, however, that as they learn more of God, the divine Mind, and His creation, their view of all these things will alter in proportion to their understanding, and their true individuality and identity will more clearly appear. It is a leading point in the teachings of Christian Science that man's identity and individuality are not lost or absorbed in God.

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