Article November 23, 1974 Issue

How Do You Know?

LAWRENCE R. WOOD

What's the difference between believing something and knowing it? Sometimes a very thin line of demarcation separates the two. What we believe, however, so long as it is mere belief, is changeable and subject to disproof. What we know is solid conviction, a surety based upon what has been or can be proved.

The world's religious beliefs occasionally come under the microscopic scrutiny of disquisitive writers, some philosophic, some scientific, some merely captious. In no other field, perhaps, has there been such variety and range of inquiry. And in no other field has the desire to know the truth been so searching—and interminable.

Critics of religion at times argue that since Christianity is based upon a Book of books, the Bible, written centuries ago—sometimes many years after the recorded events had taken place—and translated from various tongues, its teachings are unreliable. The world's agnostics have declared that God cannot be known. But Christian Science declares and demonstrates that God, the source of all true being, need not be merely believed, but can be known—can be verified by sincere seekers for truth.

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