Q: What is the difference between human goodness and divine goodness? Does not human goodness have its source in the divine?
Editor’s note: The question refers to a statement in the lead article “The Christmas season or Christmas—which shall it be?” in the December 2015 issue of the Journal. The author responds as follows.
A: Divine Science clearly instructs that there is one Mind, God, the source and creator of all good. However, mankind, generally accepting more than the one Mind, believes in a human mind that is a mixture of varying degrees of good and evil, of right and wrong. While genuine human goodness does indeed have its source in the one divine Mind, mankind sees human good as originating in the so-called human mind. As long as this error persists, human goodness can only ameliorate, but not heal, human ills. Christian healing is the effect of understanding the unreality of evil and the allness of good, God, the only Mind.
