Article March 29, 1958 Issue

CLARIFYING OUR CONCEPT OF GOD AND MAN

PAUL J. LICHTENFELS

Successful healing of sin, sickness, lack, and death requires in Christian Science right purpose, which cannot be divorced from the Christianly scientific application of spiritual power. When Christ Jesus raised Lazarus, he indicated that it was for the glorification of God (see John 11:4). Again, at his last supper with his disciples, Jesus prayed for this glorification, saying (John 17:5), "O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." In the Wycliffe translation of this passage, the word "glorify" is rendered "clarify," and the word "glory," "clearness."

The atheism, strife, sin, disease, and poverty that are apparently rampant today point to a need for a clear understanding of God as the Life and Principle of the universe. In varying degrees the errors mentioned above are the same ones that Jesus was seeking to eliminate in his prayers for the glorification of true being in God.

The clarification to mankind of God as Immanuel, or "God with us," was the chief purpose of Jesus' demonstrations of Truth. That it should be our purpose as well, rather than mere relief from human suffering, becomes increasingly evident to the Christian Scientist.

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