Article May 6, 1944 Issue

Toward Clearer Views of God

TULLY A. NETTLETON

Many a human life is the incessant quest for a clearer understanding of God. The individual may not think of it in these terms. He is simply trying to live a better life, to be kind to his family and friends, or "to find out what it's all about."

Similarly, the rise of human civilization, in its basically most important aspect, has been one long search for a truer concept of Deity. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says in her sermon on "The People's Idea of God" (p. 14), "As our ideas of Deity become more spiritual, we express them by objects more beautiful."

All races and conditions of men, from the primitive to the most advanced believe in general in some kind of supreme being or governing power outside physical cognizance. Often this belief ultimates in superstition, idolatry, or a system of pagan mythology, the worship of a whole series of deities presumably having mysterious powers over the destinies of mortals. Such mythology, based on legends of ancient Greece and Rome, constituted the prevailing religion in the countries bordering the Mediterranean which the Apostle Paul strove to convert to Christianity.

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