Article May 21, 1955 Issue

"I AM" INCLUDES THE ANSWER

RAYMOND F. KELLER

The Bible relates that God revealed Himself to Moses as "I AM" (Ex. 3:14). This revelation or self-identification of Deity pierces the darkness which springs from two basic falsities concerning God and man. One of these erroneous assumptions is that God is the creator of both good and evil. The other is that God and man are separated and that human life is adrift in a sea of uncertainty.

Many people believe that while God does not create or sanction sin, He does permit or send disease and death to discipline mankind. Job's utterance (1:21), "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away," still finds its desolate echo today in human hearts resigned to trouble and sorrow.

Stressing the "I" in I AM brings out the sense of God's allness and oneness. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 258), "The name, I AM, indicated no personality that could be paralleled with it; but it did declare a mighty individuality, even the everlasting Father, as infinite consciousness, ever-presence, omnipotence; as all law, Life, Truth, and Love." And she adds farther on in the article, "It is this infinitude and oneness of good that silences the supposition that evil is a claimant or a claim."

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