Article January 17, 1970 Issue

You Can Prove That God Is Love

ELIZABETH BICE LUERSSEN

On the walls of many Christian Science Sunday Schools and churches appears the Bible quotation "God is Love." I John 4:8; This simple statement holds a profound promise for anyone who earnestly seeks to find Truth and to understand and reflect this Love. It promises the overcoming, here and now, of fear. It promises harmonious human relationships. It promises healing and salvation. And it promises an eventual end to all evil.

How does the truth that God is Love assure all this? Let us see. Since God is Love, He naturally and inevitably creates good and good alone. The first chapter of Genesis records that the whole of God's creation "was very good." Gen. 1:31; Then where does evil come from? Mrs. Eddy explains:

"Through these three statements, or misstatements, evil comes into authority:—

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