Studying the Bible in the light of Christian Science is an adventure in discovery. We find to our joy that God is wholly good and that His plan for us is perfect harmony, invariable good. For example, we read in the book of Deuteronomy, "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he." Deut. 32:4;
It is on the basis of such statements that Christian Science describes God as divine Principle. This definition opens a new vista in mankind's understanding of Deity. It impels us to look beyond the concept of God as a magnified mortal to the higher healing sense of His infinite nature. We see Him as harmony's selfhood, changeless incorporeal Mind, or First Cause. This is in accord with God's self-revelation to Moses at the burning bush when He proclaimed Himself I am —infinite consciousness or Life, the boundless Being whom Christ Jesus spoke of as Father, and whom he demonstrated to be Love. James, in his Epistle, speaks of God as "the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." James 1:17;
Mrs. Eddy writes: "When understood, Principle is found to be the only term that fully conveys the ideas of God,—one Mind, a perfect man, and divine Science. As the divine Principle is comprehended, God's omnipotence and omnipresence will dawn on mortals, and the notion of an everywhere-present body—or of an infinite Mind starting from a finite body, and returning to it—will disappear." No and Yes, p. 20;
