The
Israelites, through the centuries, gradually developed a religion which recognized more clearly than had any religion before Christianity that there is only one God.
When
Christ Jesus was arraigned before Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator threatened the Master with these words (John 19:10): "Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?
On
the quotation page of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy appear these words of Shakespeare: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.