Article February 5, 1944 Issue

"Thou shalt not bear false witness"

JOSEPH Q. PETRO

The point of view one adopts about his fellow man is extremely important, because it tends to shape his outlook towards life. Christian Science teaches that man is idea, the image and likeness of God, the creation of an all-loving, all-powerful creator. God being a perfect creator, His creation can be subject to no disease, want, fear, discord, death, or destruction. As a matter of unassailable fact, He knows nothing but good and is not cognizant of any disorder. The Bible confirms this truth: "Thou [God] art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."

The daily accounts of war, recounting the clash of armies with the attendant number of fatalities and casualties, the constantly publicized destruction of cities and homes certainly furnish a challenge which Christian Scientists need to meet alertly, vigorously, and fearlessly. To see anyone—a dear friend, a relative, an acquaintance, or a stranger—as a sick, suffering, sinful, or discordant mortal, violates the commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."

Christian Science clearly explains the meaning of this commandment. On page 313 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy states, "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe." Christ Jesus, whose life we endeavor to pattern, went about healing mankind of all their diseases. He proved the falsity of any and all arguments of limitation. He overcame death for others and himself. Of his method Mrs. Eddy writes (ibid., pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick." The greatest of all teachers never saw man as anything less than the perfect image and likeness of the perfect creator, God, the Father.

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