Throughout history human progress has been the outcome of mankind's glimpsing of the truth set forth in the Bible: "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Gen. 1:31; Fundamental to human advance is the acceptance of a primal cause that is wholly good. This is the concept of God described by the Hebrew writer of the first chapter of Genesis —Elohim, God, who saw everything that He had made and it was good—in contrast to the concept of Jehovah, the Lord God, knowing both good and evil.
Christ Jesus brought the full truth of God as wholly good to his Jewish countrymen. In his Sermon on the Mount he set forth the blessedness of obedience to God in terms of mankind's reflected goodness. In his healing works he illustrated the power of God over every form of discord known to human thought, even overcoming death itself.
Though Jesus was rejected by his nation, his religion has endured for nearly twenty centuries. Through the practice of Christianity some measure of the truth he taught has been passed on to the present age.
