Editorial June 5, 1954 Issue

THE ONENESS AND ALLNESS OF GOD

Robert Ellis Key

Christian Science teaches that God is divine Principle and that divine Principle is Love. It further shows that an office of divine Love is to unite all in one; thus all right ideas are inseparable from one another. For instance, the idea of supply is inseparable from the idea of health; the idea of health is inseparable from the idea of happiness, and so on. The belief that we possess one right idea but lack others is a denial of the oneness of God, which is an all-important fact of God's nature and being and of man in God's likeness.

The declaration of Moses (Deut. 6:4), "The Lord our God is one Lord," has a profound significance in Christian Science. The seven terms for God as revealed in Science, namely Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind, Principle, are synonymous. If it were not so, we should have more than one God, and the First Commandment would be broken.

It is most essential in Christian Science that we keep in consciousness the oneness of God. Each synonymous term for God includes every other. Thus when we think of God as divine Life, we are thinking also of Him as divine Truth, for Life cannot be separated from Truth, else Truth would be subject to the absence of Life, or death, and this is impossible.

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