Editorial January 1, 1955 Issue

THE ONENESS OF GOD AND MAN

Helen Wood Bauman

The oneness of God and man, which Christian Science reveals, does not imply their sameness. God is always God, and man is forever man. This fact is basic to the demonstration of Christian Science because it is true. Only what is true can be proved.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, took exception to the question, "Do you teach that you are equal with God?" and her reply is found on page 46 of "Miscellaneous Writings." Here she says, in part, "Man is not equal with his Maker; that which is formed is not cause, but effect, and has no power underived from its creator."

When Christ Jesus was accused of "making himself equal with God," he explained his unity with God as that of reflection with its source. He said (John 5:19), "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." The Master knew the divine source of the good he reflected, and in meekness he let goodness work in him as the only power and law in order to bring men to understand the will of God. If Jesus had presumed to believe that he was the source of divine might, he would have lost his ability to heal, and the world would have lost its Saviour.

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