Article September 22, 1928 Issue

God the Only Lawmaker

PAUL STARK SEELEY

It is self-evident that true government and true law proceed from an intelligent cause. Since God is the one and only intelligent cause, true government and true law must be of Him. In other words, since God is the Maker of all that is real, He alone is the Maker of all true law. The revelation of Christian Science affirms this. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, refers on page 435 to God as "man's only lawgiver;" and on page 381 she writes, "God is the lawmaker."

The Science of Christianity, demonstrated by Christ Jesus and explained in Christian Science, reveals God to be immortal and universal Mind, the all-intelligent One. The real creation, including the real man, consists of the infinite ideas of this Mind. The negative opposite of God is a false sense of Mind, termed mortal mind, which claims to express itself through manifold modes of mortal thinking. Mortal mind claims all that belongs to God: it claims to be a lawmaker and to assert its laws through mortals, and by these laws to affect the life, health, and happiness of mankind. Its mortal and material sense of Mind and of creation, including man, it would substitute for the spiritual and real, even as a dream seems to substitute itself for the ordinary environment of a dreamer.

Christian Science accepts as reality God, divine Mind, and Mind's creation, including man. It repudiates as negative and untrue all that divine Mind does not know, including the claim of mortal mind to exist, to be a lawmaker, and to have agencies through which it operates, or may operate. The negative opposite of God and His government seems true only to deluded material sense, which accepts another mind (so called) than God, so renouncing the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

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