GOD, MAN'S ONLY LAWGIVER

DONALD R. LANE

God, divine Mind, revealed to Mary Baker Eddy the momentous fact that He is the only lawgiver. The Bible, loved and studied by every Christian Scientist, contains many references to the law of God showing clearly that its inspired writers were cognizant of the fact that God, Principle, or cause, is the source of divine law. If we acknowledge God to be supreme, as He assuredly is, it logically follows that we must also acknowledge His law to be supreme. While many sincere religionists readily admit God and His law to be the unchallenged governing power in the kingdom of heaven, they are very reluctant to question the so-called authority of physical laws. Such an attitude is easily understandable until one's thinking has been spiritually illumined be the teachings of Christian Science.

"Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual." So writes Mrs. Eddy on page 427 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Her discovery, Christian Science, reveals that God's law of wholeness, or completeness, is ever available to eliminate beliefs of incompleteness and disease; that God's law of love wipes out jealousy, envy, hatred, and their results; that God's law of life destroys the belief of death.

One might ask how it is possible to utilize God's immutable law of harmony to overcome the seemingly myriad array of discordant beliefs, many of them falsely titled law, which continually confront mortals. If the inquirer were asked how he was able to balance his checking account, he would very likely reply that it was through his knowledge of the fundamentals of mathematics. So the student of Christian Science, because of his understanding of God as divine Principle, the only lawgiver, and of man's relationship to Him as Mind's idea, is able to overcome the discords of mortal sense. This overcoming is in proportion to his application of Christian Science, which followers of Mrs. Eddy understand to be the law of God.

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