One point the Bible makes clear from the very beginning is that God has something to say. God wants to be known. God wants us to hear and be helped by divinity’s message. And yet, what’s also seen very early on in the Bible is that when God’s Word is given, there’s a human tendency to argue about it rather than listen to it. In fact, the Bible’s account of when God first wrote something down and gave it to humanity is when God gives Moses the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone. When Moses goes to share God’s message with the Israelites, he finds that they are doing things that are so at odds with God that he flies into a rage and breaks the tablets into pieces. Sometimes it feels as though religions have been breaking into pieces ever since over disagreements about how God’s Word is to be understood and lived. 

The discovery of Christian Science shines a unique light on these biblical issues and brings needed reform to how the Bible can be read and understood. Mary Baker Eddy, its Discoverer, came to understand that the so-called miracles of the Bible, when taken together, actually reveal—announce—an underlying law of God’s goodness, power, and love. In fact, through her own experience of being healed and then healing others, she realized that the events of the Bible revealed God to be an ever-operative divine Principle. 

The action of this law of God, good, is evident throughout the Bible, especially in the Christianity that Jesus brought to light and taught to his followers. As Mrs. Eddy explains, “Jesus gave his disciples (students) power over all manner of diseases; and the Bible was written in order that all peoples, in all ages, should have the same opportunity to become students of the Christ, Truth, and thus become God-endued with power (knowledge of divine law) and with ‘signs following’ ” (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 190).