Article July 20, 1981 Issue

The impossibility of precarious good

JENIFER C. WECHSLER

The Divine Being, God, is constant, unfluctuating. All spiritual reality is based on His nature. Good, as the evidence of God and His allness, is also undeviating, reliable, spiritually solid. It does not move about or disappear but remains steady, unvarying.

The material senses would suggest otherwise. The mist arising in the second account of creation in Genesis introduces the notion of variable good. Mystification, compounded by a talking serpent, claims to have influenced man to believe in more than one power. This implies dualism—God as good and evil.

But mortal misconception can never establish evil as real or related to God. The false sense is forever unlocated, unhoused. It can find no dwelling in man, the perfect likeness of God, good. Man is never susceptible to mortal mentality or inconsistency.

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