In these days of world upheaval, right-minded followers of the Christ, Truth, must be more than ever on guard against aggressive atheism. By this is meant not the official atheism fostered by organized groups, but the vastly more subtle and destructive temptation constantly knocking at the mental doors of well-disposed Christian folk, namely, the fear that, somehow or other, God may not be quite equal to the task of governing this universe, including man, which He created. Mary Baker Eddy sensed the situation long ago and warned us pointedly. On page 135 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes: "There is to-day danger of repeating the offence of the Jews by limiting the Holy One of Israel and asking: 'Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?' What cannot God do?"
The temptation to limit God is usually accompanied by another, which would suggest that even if all things are possible to God, they are beyond human possibility or capacity to achieve. This aggressive evil suggestion is expressed in such mental states as apathy, complacency, self-satisfaction, only moderate success in healing and business activity, unsatisfactory human relations, in indisposition daily to study and practice Christian Science, in acceptance of the belief of age, and in cessation of joy in service.
The acceptance of this belief in limitation is an error which needs vigorous treatment. How shall we handle this claim? We should know that all things are possible to God, and therefore all things are possible to God's image and likeness, perfect, spiritual man. Just to the extent that we understand who and what we really are do we begin to put off the materially finite and put on the spiritually infinite. We ourselves put a limit upon our possibilities of healing, of harmonious human relations, of bringing in a world of peace and order. There is no barrier of statutory limitations of time or any other sort upon the struggle to rectify our attitudes, our desires, and our methods until they evidence divine Principle and the Mind of Christ.
