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WHAT IS GOD, AND MAN'S RELATION TO HIM?

From the October 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal


We answer: God is Life, Love, Truth, Intelligence, Mind, Substance, and Spirit. The Fatherhood and Motherhood of the Spiritual universe and man. We use the term Motherhood, because in our finite sense we regard the mother co-relative and co-equal with the father. God being all, embodies both relations. It is declared of him in the sacred Scriptures: "Thou art God." Ah! who can sound its depths?

The Master fittingly exemplified the power of God when he made nugatory the material law through the law Spiritual, whereby he turned the water into wine, walked the wave, healed the sick, cast out demons, raised the dead, and in his last act, the ascension, made manifest the nothingness of matter by making it give place to Spirit; disappearing from mortal sight, and being clothed upon through the eternal law of Spirit—God.

Thus we learn, through the light of the power of Christ, as exemplified in his demonstrations, to discern a faint foreshadowing of the almightiness of Spiritual law.

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