Article January 11, 1958 Issue

THE SYNONYMS FOR GOD COMBINE AS ONE

FREDA SPERLING BENSON

As we understand God, we find all good. Our true selfhood, God's spiritual idea, has always known God, but any mortal sense of existence which we have accepted must be corrected by our knowing God aright. Eliphaz said to Job (Job 22:21), "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace."

In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 465), "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love." The seven names, or synonyms, for God, given in this definition, help us to understand Him.

Mrs. Eddy, alluding to the definition of God, which she gives to students of Christian Science in Science and Health, also writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 225): "In their textbook it is clearly stated that God is divine Principle and that His synonyms are Love, Truth, Life, Spirit, Mind, Soul, which combine as one. The divine Principle includes them all." Thus these synonyms are interchangeable.

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