Article January 26, 1946 Issue

Man Has Never Been at War with Man

STEPHEN W. HUNTINGTON

We are told in the Bible to "magnify the Lord." Does not this include magnifying or enlarging our recognition of God's qualifies, which are all good?

It follows as a natural result that as we increase our understanding of God as good, we also expand our recognition of the goodness of man, for man is the constant expression, or reflection, of God. Knowing this, we shall gain relief from the erroneous thought that man can hate or do evil, for in the degree we see the goodness of man as God's expressed image, we find, happily, that our belief in evil has diminished. We then realize that man has never been at war with man, because good can have no conflict with good.

One may say, There seems, however, to be conflict between good and the false sense of evil. But to the infinite God, good, there can be no evil, for He is All-in-all. There is nothing besides Him as the First Commandment teaches. The sun knows no darkness. Neither do the rays of the sun meet with darkness. The Scriptures say (II Chron. 20:15, 17): "The battle is not your's, but God's.... Set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you." God is Truth and Truth is light. There is no struggle when darkness is destroyed by light. The light shines and the darkness fades into nothingness. Jesus said (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

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