This denial is according to the "letter" of human sense, but not according to the "spirit" of truthful understanding. The narrow, human idea of personality, whereby in thought, God is made to think and act, like a magnified man—is denied. In this narrow thought He is forced to various expedients in order to prevent the frustration of His will, or to regain His prestige when that will has already been overthrown. This is what the belief of His personal participation in or recognition of the affairs of this daily mortal "life," eventually leads to.
But Christian Science teaches that God is Individual;—that He is One, and that He, therefore, must have a personality, though it is not comprehensible by the mortal sense. The obstacle is that the human idea of person implies cognizable form and outline—limits—in short; and this conception cannot apply to the Infinite.
The human conception of personality is, for the most part, that manifestation of individual characteristics to thought or to personal sense, by which one person or individual is distinguished from another. Furthermore, this idea of the personality of another, depends greatly upon preconceived notions of right and wrong, and also upon what the individual entertaining them would prefer the facts in the case to be.
