Yearning to understand the truth of all things, human thought has for centuries probed the vast unknown with what it calls the scientific method. The desire for dominion over every adverse circumstance has inspired a stupendous human labor which has built the whole great body of the physical sciences. Searching deep into the laws and properties of matter has brought the discovery of nuclear power. The knowledge of matter's structuring forces, adhesion, cohesion, and attraction, has given to mankind a great power and also a great fear. But it is untenable that men should shrink in fear before the god of their own creating. The discoveries of physical science should promote human thinking to a change of base.
The Christianity Jesus taught is the only true Science, the Science of all reality. Mary Baker Eddy makes this point in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." There she writes (p. 195), "We should forsake the basis of matter for metaphysical Science and its divine Principle." This divine Principle is God, the God of the Bible. Jesus' disciple John distilled the spiritual dynamics of the total religion his Master was living and teaching into the simple statement (I John 4:8), "God is love." That is to say, he stated that the infinite and complete substance of all being is Love. Christ Jesus lived and practiced this idea.
Mark has recorded that Jesus once stayed on shore while his disciples rowed a boat out across the Sea of Galilee. The wind was against them and developed into a considerable storm. Jesus saw them "toiling in rowing" and set out to meet them. Perhaps he felt that the simple example of his control over the material forces of adhesion, cohesion, and attraction would be sufficient to help his disciples demonstrate the power of Love for themselves since the account in Mark states (6:48), "He cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them." It is understandable that since they still looked out through a material frame of reference they evaluated phenomena by their limited set of values and reacted with fear. Mark records that "when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out: for they all saw him, and were troubled." Jesus, the scientific Christian, looking out with love and as Love's expression, understood the answer to their fear to be compassion. And he put this compassionate impulse into action. The Bible reads: "And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid. And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased." His disciples' material concepts held no explanation for evidence of this nature. The Bible records, "They were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered."
