Editorial August 3, 1935 Issue

God is Principle—Love

Duncan Sinclair

God has not always been known aright. It has taken long ages for men to discover His real nature. Strange as it may seem in the light which Christian Science now sheds upon the nature of Deity, many have held the most contradictory, the most illogical beliefs about it. Thus, God has been regarded as a great potentate who knows good and evil, and sends both good and evil upon mankind. The Hebrews held this fallacy, held it strongly, although gradually their prophets sensed the truth that essentially God is Love.

Obviously, a being who is capable of good and also of evil cannot be trusted implicity. That surely must be apparent to thinking men and women. Many in the past have realized that there was something radically wrong with this concept of God. And how earnest must have been their longing to know the absolute truth about Him! Can we doubt that this desire, which was equivalent to earnest prayer, received an answer? In the fullness of time the answer came through Christ Jesus, to be accepted and spread abroad by his disciples.

Throughout his ministry Jesus taught the unchanging love of God. The parable of the prodigal son shows this clearly. The father in the parable waited with the perfect patience of unchanging love for the return of the prodigal. And the father in the parable exemplifies the Father-Mother God, whose love for His children is infinite, and unchangeable. John, the beloved disciple, stated that "God is love." In the fourth chapter of his first epistle he wrote, "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him," thus bringing out at the same time God's all-inclusiveness. The Hebrew prophets had gradually sensed, through inspiration, the perfection of God's being; the full revelation of that perfection came through the master Christian, Christ Jesus.

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