Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
Shakespeare.
THE Christian teaching that there is but one source of truth necessarily leads to the conclusion that there is but one kind of truth. Statements of truth may be classified as to their significance, their relative importance, the ends they subserve, etc., but not with respect to their inherent quality, for all that is of God is good, ever-present, eternal. All the divine ideas bear the distinctive marks of divinity; they are real and right, they are pure and perfect, and Christ Jesus' words, "I and my Father are one," could be fitly spoken by every least one of them. The unity of faith to which Paul refers as the goal of religious aspiration is the universal human perception of this oneness of truth in which all revelation and all spiritual authority is grounded.
Defining his nature and illustrating his work, Christ Jesus said, "I am the light of the world," and in identifying the Christ, the divine idea, with Truth's every manifestation, Christian Science wonderfully expands and enriches our understanding of the meaning of his symbolism. The oneness of light is not questioned. It may vary in intensity and in the medium or form of its expression, but its identity is always preserved; its every increment and radiation dispels darkness. So, too, truth is one, however varied its relations or channels of expression; always and everywhere it banishes error.
