Editorial April 20, 1957 Issue

"THE TRIUNE PERSON CALLED GOD"

Helen Wood Bauman

In Christian theology, the trinity has held great prominence. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost have had various interpretations, but their unity has always been reverently acknowledged. Through Christian Science new light is thrown upon this significant relationship. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 331): "Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triune Person called God,—that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Comforter."

John, the beloved of the Master, wrote in his first epistle (5:7), "There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one." Here is Scriptural authority for the truth of the inseparability of God, His Son, and His Science. The illumination of Spirit, rousing reluctant human consciousness to an awareness of divine reality, involves three great periods—the Old Testament period, the New Testament period, and the present era of divine Science. Each is needed for the fullness of revelation.

Mankind's recognition of the fatherhood of God, the source of life, is recorded in the Old Testament. The Psalmist declared (Ps.36:9), "With thee is the fountain of life." And the prophet Malachi sums up the vital message of the Old Testament in these questions (2: 10): "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?"

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