Which shall it be for me, true worship or idolatry? Each individual makes his own choice. No one can decide for another. There is just one true God. True worship is the adoration of the one true God and the serving of Him alone. Any departure from this, even in the slightest degree, is idolatry.
Moses was an inspired revelator of God's law to mankind. He lifted the children of Israel out of the prevailing idolatry into a beginning of the worship of the one true God, Spirit. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.200), "Moses advanced a nation to the worship of God in Spirit instead of matter, and illustrated the grand human capacities of being bestowed by immortal Mind." Whoever takes this progressive step out of faith in matter into faith in Spirit finds harmonious, satisfying answers to many hitherto baffling human problems. Through the true worship of God as infinite divine Principle he comes to demonstrate spiritual understanding in his daily experiences. In Christian Science divine Principle is one of the synonyms for God, and Truth is another. Any deviation from divine Principle and Truth is a failure to worship God truly.
Mankind should be exceedingly grateful to the pioneers of true worship. They opened the way for the putting off of the old man of flesh and the putting on of the new man in the image and likeness of Spirit. Through centuries of testing perseverance and progress they clung to the spiritual truth of being revealed through precept and practice by Moses and other prophets. Years of faithful worship of the one true God Almighty were marvelously consummated in Mary's pure conception of Christ Jesus and his subsequent inspired ministry.
