OUR ALL-INCLUSIVE GOD

HENRY N. ROBERTS

The allness of God is a fundamental doctrine of Christian Science. This Science reveals the great spiritual reality that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient; that man is the perpetual expression of His presence, power, and wisdom. All that belongs to God is reflected by man. Therefore it is our opportunity each moment and every hour to be conscious of the harmony of our true selfhood as God's reflection, unfettered and untouched by the evidence before the material senses. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 151), "All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal."

That God is omnipresent, many intelligent thinkers agree. The Psalmist sang (73:25), "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." The Christian Science student rejoices that God is all-presence, and he strives to hold to this truth amid all the exigencies of a mortal sense of existence. He learns through study and demonstration that the material senses, which argue incessantly for the reality of inharmony and suffering, cannot enter or appear in the infinite presence of Spirit.

Someone may ask, "How can you say that there is no evil when the world is holding it constantly before you?" The answer is that through Christian Science treatment evil's unreality is constantly being proved. This assures the ultimate annihilation of all evil. We also learn in Christian Science that evil's seeming presence is but a false belief of a false mind, the carnal or mortal mind, an illusion or dream from which mortals need to awaken. To heal in Christian Science, then, we must know the all-presence and all-power of God, good, so clearly that evil's pretense to reality fails to convince us, impress us, or cause us to waver. In the realization of the ever-presence of infinite Love, error disappears.

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