Identified with Universal Good

No one should believe that he is ever shut off from good, for good is universal and available to all as the truth of being. Paul was explaining this availability to the Galatians, troubled by fleshly temptations, when he wrote (5:7), "Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?" And he added, "This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you." In other words, a diversion from good is not of God's doing, hence not to be tolerated.

Christ Jesus aligned the good he expressed with God when he said (Matt. 19:17), "There is none good but one, that is, God." The Master must have realized that his strength in demonstrating the good which destroys evil came from his identifying it with universal good and not from any isolated sense of personal goodness.

Mary Baker Eddy understood and taught the indivisibility of God's goodness, and she says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany"(p. 165), "As an active portion of one stupendous whole, goodness identifies man with universal good."

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