Editorial February 6, 1943 Issue

The Reason for Our Hope

Peter V. Ross

Founded upon the Bible, Christian Science necessarily accepts the Scriptural definition of God as omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, that is, as having all power, all presence, and all knowledge. But Science does more than simply recognize the accuracy of this idea of Deity; it awakens its students to the practical significance of that idea and teaches them how to make it operative in human problems.

As showing this, let us take the concept of God as all-knowing and see to what conclusions we are led, for Christian Science qualifies its advocates to comply with Peter's admonition, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you."

For Deity to be all-knowing is for Deity to have all wisdom, knowledge, intelligence. What is the one short, everyday word which expresses all these? You at once answer, "Mind." And Mind is one of the names which Christian Science gives to God. Indeed, Mind is God. Since Mind is God, or God is Mind, and there is only one God, it follows that there is only one Mind, one consciousness; and God being good and limitless, that Mind and that consciousness must be good and limitless. Every individual is blessed with that Mind. There is no other. Pause for a moment to realize what this means for you.

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