Article February 12, 1944 Issue

God's Universe

LOUIS F. KRAFT

Looking about us during these troubled times, we may wonder if something has gone wrong with God's perfect universe and His idea, man. The problems which are in evidence on all sides support the belief that imperfection, rather than perfection, is the real status. But the appearance of imperfection does not make it any more true than the mirage in the desert makes genuine the beautiful lake of clear, cool water which the weary traveler seems to see.

In the Bible we read: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." In this account of creation there is no reference to evil or imperfection, but, on the contrary, creation was declared "very good." Mary Baker Eddy says on page 470 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "The standard of perfection was originally God and man." To bring the point home to the reader she then asks, "Has God taken down His own standard, and has man fallen?" And in the following strong statements she leaves no doubt as to the position of Christian Science: "The relations of God and man, divine Principle and idea, are indestructible in Science, and Science knows no lapse from nor return to harmony, but holds the divine order or spiritual law, in which God and all that He creates are perfect and eternal, to have remained unchanged in its eternal history." No, man has never fallen, because there never has been a moment when God has relinquished one bit of space to error or evil. God has always filled immensity, and always will; hence the impossibility of error's ever having a place to exist or act. When we decide definitely on what is true about any situation, and hold to this truth, only that which is true will be in evidence.

Someone once said: "If you seem to be having trouble or a trial of any kind, look for it in the first chapter of Genesis. If you do not find it there, it does not exist and never has, because everything that God made was pronounced 'very good.'" Nothing can be added to or subtracted from God's complete and perfect creation. This is a positive and unalterable fact, which will bring healing and freedom if held to without mental reservations.

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