JESUS virtually declared and proved that God is absolute Good for "there is none good but one, that is, God." And Science and Health classifies the terms, Mind, Spirit, Soul, Life, Truth, Love and Principle, as synonymous with God, since God is the "all in all." In Christian Science the impressions of God are resolved into self-evident propositions of divine Principle and its ideas, which reflect the understanding and intelligence of Mind and Spirit. The logic of divine Mind is based on the Christian and Scientific Principle Life, Truth and Love,— which Jesus Christ demonstrated, and whose eternal demand is, "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man are revealed in the spiritual understanding and scientific unity of this divine Principle and its ideas of perfect manhood, and are symbolized to human sense by loving the Lord our God with all our mind, and our neighbor as ourselves. They who worship the Father must understand and reflect him in Spirit and in Truth; for this is the logic of the Son of God, who hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true."
The hope of mortals is the light of Christian Science, without which there is no reason or revelation of Principle to be seen in the commands and promises of Jesus Christ. Any claim to a basis or conception of Life that is less than the perfect and absolute divine Principle of Good is suppositional, and must fall short of the healing and saving Principle of the Holy Ghost, or Divine Science, which leads into all Truth and Life. Christian Science declares the absolute divine Principle of Good which heals the sick and sinful and thereby destroys the false claim that Life is both good and evil. Therefore no conception or idea of God could possibly become so merciful to mortals as the Father and Mother, Life and Love, which neither knows nor permits sin and mortality in man, yet knoweth all things real and eternal; therefore, let God be true, and every (mortal) man a liar. How important then to gain the true idea of God as Principle, without which we have no explainable proof of the unity of Life and its ideas of manhood, or the divine law which governs the Christianity of Jesus Christ.
In business relations the whole world use the mathematical principle of numbers which forever declares that five and five make ten. This example scientifically agrees with every mathematical problem of numbers. Can God, therefore, who is absolute Truth and Love, become less Christian and scientific in his relation to man than the mathematical principle of the business world? The mistaken belief of the religious world is that every man has a moral right to worship God according to the dictates of a carnal conscience, which makes evil and error as real and more powerful than God who is absolute Good. This false belief has lords and gods many, resulting in sin, sickness, and death. In this wilderness of material theories and doctrines of mortal man, is there not a crying need to repent and be baptized with the understanding of the Holy Ghost? We are commanded to "enter in at the strait gate which leadeth unto life." Can there be any other way of salvation from sin and death than to follow the guiding star of Christian and scientific understanding and demonstration of Truth and Life? This is the true light of Jesus Christ and Christian Science which lighteth every man who walks therein. Jesus once said: "Spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have." This statement agrees with the scientific statement of Being in SCIENCE AND HEALTH which declares that man is spiritual and not material. As long as Christendom believes and teaches that life and intelligence is mortal and material, so long will religious teachers continue to beat their intellectual heads against the gate of Christian and scientific understanding of Truth, which leads to life eternal.
