Article January 16, 1932 Issue

The Omnipotence of Love

CLAYTON W. MOGG

No Christian will deny the abstract statements that God is Love and that God is omnipotent. Yet, until they have learned by consecrated study of the Bible, in the light of Christian Science, how few, indeed, there are who are not constantly denying both of these truths in their daily lives and in their thoughts concerning God. That God is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever there can be no doubt. But humanity's idea of God has changed throughout the centuries.

A careful study of all the passages in the Bible and the writings of our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in which the words "love" and "Love" appear, will work wonders on the thought of the student. Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 42), "The Jewish theology gave no hint of the unchanging love of God." And yet, although God has not changed, He has been known only through His reflection, man; and this reflection has been discerned by men to the degree that they have "put off the old man" and "put on the new."

Here and there throughout the older Scriptures one finds great figures, leaders of Israel, who have understood the character and nature of God to such an extent that they have been able to demonstrate the power of God among men. For, even to human sense, God has never been without a representative. And one can have no doubt that these great leaders understood something of the nature of divine Love. As early as Enoch we find one who had learned so completely that man is spiritual, and who so realized his at-one-ment with God, that he overcame death. Jeremiah also had caught a glimpse of God as Love when he wrote, "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee." But however much these great leaders of Israel may have understood God, they seemed in general unable to impart, more than imperfectly, that understanding to others so as to make God real to them as omnipresent Love.

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