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UNDIVIDED GOOD

From the August 2010 issue of The Christian Science Journal


HUMANITY IN GENERAL BELIEVES THAT GOOD—whether defined as happiness, fulfillment, rewarding activity, progress, or simply things, resources, and opportunities—is limited. The assumption is that good is finite, and therefore needs to be divided up, which means it is available to some, but not to others. Out of this assumption arises most of the competition and strife that seem endemic both in individual and collective circumstances.

But the Old and New Testaments tell us, speaking of God: "Thou art good, and doest good" (Ps. 119:68), and "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24). So from a Biblical standpoint, the premise that good is material rather than spiritual is false. Such a falsity arises from the notion that good is a personal possession rather than the expression of universal God, good.

Because God, Spirit, is infinite, good must be measureless—incapable of exhaustion, depletion, or division. Moreover, if good is all, then evil has to be a suppositional lie. God's allness inherently refutes dualism, whether it's a belief in two opposing elements—life and death, spirit and matter, truth and error—or a notion that God's ideas could rival or be in contention with one other.

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