The following questions were recently asked of a speaker over the radio, by evident seekers of light: What are the attributes of God? Why was man created? Why does evil exist? A student of Christian Science recognized the significance of these queries and awaited with interest the answers. Attributes of God were acknowledged to be His infinitude and His absoluteness. To Him were ascribed truth, beauty, and goodness; and man was recognized as created to express God. Though of different denominations, the speaker and the listeners were on common ground in apprehending the nature of God as infinite and good, and in perceiving that man is God's expression.
"What are the attributes of God?" Human tongue cannot describe the power, glory, and majesty of our heavenly Father, for human consciousness, unless spiritually enlightened, does not conceive of the grandeur and loveliness of the "Adorable One," as Mrs. Eddy expresses it in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 16). And man is the expression of this One. Man, the Godlike, according to the Scriptures is made in the likeness of God, and thereby possesses and reflects the divine qualities.
Paul, on Mars' Hill, referring to the Athenians' ignorant worship of "THE UNKNOWN GOD," proclaimed a knowable God. He knew that God is One, incapable of being displaced by another or spurious power. Aware of mankind's tendency to diverge conceptually from reality, he presented to his listeners the true concept of Deity—a knowable Father, the Maker of man.
