Article March 4, 1996 Issue

A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE

Are there questions you'd like to explore with other readers and with the editorial staff of the Christian Science Sentinel? This column offers a place for that exchange to happen. What's here isn't intended to give a definitive answer. The queries and the ideas spring from the heart, as we are walking side by side.

Q. How can you respect a God who is already perfect? What's the point in being already perfect? There's nowhere to go from there.—from an inquirer in Dallas, Texas

A. My whole basis for loving, respecting, praising, and glorifying God is founded in the knowledge that He is perfect. I could not, for example, believe in God as Truth, if He were merely striving for perfection. Truth must be perfect in order to be irrevocably true. By the same reasoning, Love must be perfect in order to be all-loving; divine Principle must be perfect in order to be the one unerring lawmaker. Without perfection, there would be no certainty, only doubt, and no basis for a scientific demonstration of spiritual being. In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy writes, "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration" (p. 259).

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