NOT long since I was conversing with a lady who is a member of the M. E. church, and one of its most active workers, who said that God set before us Good and evil, and we were free moral agents, with the power of choice for Good or evil. This statement was made nearly at the close of the conversation, and I at once began to examine it in the light of Christian Science.
I was at her house at the time, and on my way home, these words came to me: "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." The thoughts that followed, I endeavor here to give, hoping that others may be benefited thereby, and enabled as I have been, to solve at least in part, the problem of free moral agency.
Jesus positively declares, "Ye cannot serve God and mammon," and admitting the claim that we are free to choose evil, we must admit also that, while serving evil, we are not serving God. Are we not serving evil when we believe that God gave his children power to sin against himself? Children created in the image and likeness of God given power to do what he himself cannot, or, would not do! "He is too pure to behold iniquity." Allowing that we have power to sin against him, he must have given us that power, for it is stated clearly in his Word that all power is given him, in heaven and in earth.
