The Bible may seem puzzling to some people. Even to those who have a deep love for it. How, they may ask, could God's creation of perfection become today's world of deterioration and mortality? Man fell? But why? Where is the logic in God's establishment of perfection and then a willingness to permit the disintegration of infinite goodness? Free will, scholastic theology argues.
How could God reveal Himself as Love itself See I John 4:16; and yet be perceived as a God of vengeance and fury? See Isa. 59:17, 18; There are endless rationalizations for such questions. But Christian Science appeals strongly to thinkers who are not satisfied with all the traditional explanations. This Science provides irresistible logic for those who intuitively sense that God is infinitely good and yet want to believe that all of the Bible has purpose and significance—even passages describing destruction and injustice.
The Science of Christianity, explaining the Bible in its spiritual meaning, shows its wonderful consistency. The Scriptures open and close with clear glimpses of reality—of man created perfectly, See Gen. 1:26, 27; of his inhabiting the holy city. See Rev. 21 and 22; Throughout the Bible, people discerned something of this perfection. And throughout the Bible they faced the worldly beliefs of evil— illness, sin, death. They were challenged with an Adam concept of man—an allegorical concept depicting man as a sinning mortal—but mountain peaks of spiritual insight, revealing man's pure relationship to God, were won by Moses, Elijah, Paul, John, and others.
