Editorial June 24, 1972 Issue

Good Is One

Carl J. Welz

"The Lord our God is one Lord."^{Deut. 6:4;} In these words is the essence of law and of reality. Christ Jesus based his entire ministry and his demonstration of Truth on the fact of the one God. God was his Father and the Father of all. Therefore all were brothers living in the love of God. His healing works demonstrated that no law, apart from God's law, governs man, and they defined the nature of this law as God's all-power manifesting itself in health. Whoever reached out to Jesus in full faith that God had empowered him to heal found himself expressing the health that is God's law for man.

Christian Science points to the goodness of God shown in the life of Jesus and recognizes God as good. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy says of God, "The Scriptures declare all that He made to be good, like Himself,—good in Principle and in idea. Therefore the spiritual universe is good, and reflects God as He is."^{Science and Health, p. 286;}

The difficulty people experience in trying to accept the oneness of good is twofold. First, the belief that there is good apart from God seems to offer much pleasure and satisfaction. Secondly, when it becomes evident that the pleasures of the belief in more than one good result in frustration and pain, people tend to seek a total escape from the scene in which the pain was experienced. The first explains the selfish, evil, ungodlike motives we find expressed in human life. The second explains the tendency among religious people to condemn human existence as temporary evil —something to be put up with or made the best of until we can enter into the kingdom of good. And the supposed way to this kingdom is either through death or through mentally escaping from the human sense of life.

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