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It all adds up to God
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
When I was growing up I had a difficult time maintaining any real interest in school. However, the one subject that always interested me was mathematics. So many things in life felt unreliable and inconsistent to me, but mathematics was consistent and provable. And if you did everything right you never got a wrong answer. How could anyone not love that?!
In fact, as a student of Christian Science, I’d noticed how often Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of the religion, referred to mathematical concepts in her explanation of this Science.
During her Message to the Mother Church for 1901 she stated, “In mathematics four times three is twelve, and three times four is twelve. To depart from the rule of mathematics destroys the proof of mathematics; just as a departure from the Principle and rule of divine Science destroys the ability to demonstrate Love according to Christ, healing the sick; and you lose its susceptibility of scientific proof” (p. 4).
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Nate Egan lives in Sarasota, Florida, United States.
