Article November 30, 1929 Issue

A treatise in your columns, dealing with various theories...

Ralph W. Still, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,—San Benito

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A treatise in your columns, dealing with various theories regarding the Supreme Being, leaves room for misapprehension as to what Christian Science teaches concerning God and man. Therefore, a statement thereon is respectfully submitted in elucidation.

In your contributor's assertion that the human being would have "no reason for existence" if he were omniscient, "as is God," it is plain to be seen that he does not understand Christian Science, as he posits this declaration as indicating that Christian Science teaches that mankind is omniscient. But this is not true. Furthermore, Christian Science wholly discredits the doctrine of anthropomorphism.

Christian Science, in teaching that God is Mind (the word "Mind" being capitalized to denote a synonym for Deity) thereby reveals His omniscience. It follows that man can only reflect the omniscience or intelligence of Mind, or God: this teaching conforming alike to right reasoning and revelation. "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion," is a scientific statement as to the relationship between God and man, between creator and created. Christian Science does not teach that God has a mind; it teaches that God is Mind.

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