Editorial July 26, 1975 Issue

Certainties

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Is there anything we can be certain of?

Some skeptical people will answer no. Yet to live a life with no fully reliable points of reference, a life of intermeshed uncertainties, can be unsettling and sometimes depressing. But there are some certainties, Christian Science affirms. Spiritual certainties. By exercising spiritual intuition we can find out what they are and demonstrate them to be certain.

In the world that belongs to the personal senses there are few things, if any, we can be absolutely sure of. Human beings have always been faced with what is sometimes called the problem of knowledge. For the human intellect, one difficulty in establishing the absolute truth of something is that the test of its truth requires some previously established criteria against which to measure the thing whose validity we would check—the criteria themselves may not be true.

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