Many turn to God for help and receive it. Not understanding what has happened, they may conclude that God knows the things and people involved in human situations and that He gets Himself involved in what mortals do. But this belief presents some problems. The Bible says that God is "of purer eyes than to behold evil." Hab. 1:13; How can He know any evil to warn men about? How, for instance, could God have given Moses commandments that include the words, "Thou shalt not"?
Christian Science explains that because God is Spirit, the infinite Mind cannot know Spirit's opposite, matter. Yet God does guide those who seek Him into situations that are safe and happy, even though the situations appear to be largely material. But how? The answer has much to do with success in healing through prayer in Christian Science.
In every instance where people in the Bible accomplished something important, they did something. Moses went up the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments. Actually, God, Spirit, is everywhere, and all that God knows is at the bottom of the mountain as well as at the top. God never changes. He does not give more good today than yesterday. He constantly imparts His own goodness—which is really quite some goodness—at all times. Moses needed a clear sense of law, and to get it he went up to where he thought God was, and there he perceived the ideal of perfect law and brought down from the mountain God's revelation of that ideal.
