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"WHY CALLEST THOU ME GOOD?"

From the November 1961 issue of The Christian Science Journal


A Rich young man once addressed Jesus as "good Master." Jesus said to him, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God" (Matt. 19:16, 17).

Jesus did not classify good as belonging exclusively to himself or to a certain few, but rather turned thought away from his human personality to the oneness and allness of God, good. As we impersonalize good through individualizing it, we help mankind to partake of the nature of good, which can be found only in God.

In the page 587 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy defines "good" as, "God; Spirit; omnipotence; omniscience; omnipresence; omniaction."

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