PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS August 25, 1980 Issue

Healing and the headlines

To look at the headlines solely from the level of human perception, it might seem that we live in a world fraught with poverty and strife, a world skirting the brink of ruin. The Bible, on the other hand, advances quite a different view. Through inspired insight into God's nature, the prophet presents Him as saying: "I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded. ... I am the Lord; and there is none else."^{Isa. 45:12, 18;}

In line with this, the Christ reveals a universe unreported by the material senses. To Christly perception God, divine Mind, is expressing Himself in the glory of a creation that is entirely good, irreversibly safe, and forever under Mind's control. Christian Science opens our thought-windows and enables us to scan the heaven and earth created by God, and thereby discover that because "there is none else," divine Love forever embraces man in its allness.

How can this allness of good be reconciled with the evil we so often see and hear? The answer is that it can't be. And, in fact, this shows us exactly what is demanded. We must draw a clear line of distinction between good and evil and then begin, step by step, to prove the validity of God's goodness, including man's perfection, and the powerlessness, the invalidity, of evil. Genuine reformation, deep Christian regeneration, is the key to this new view.

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