The first chapter of Genesis closes with the announcement of the perfection and completion of the spiritual creation in these words: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." In the first chapter of John's Gospel is the statement, "All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made." Could there be a more complete statement of the omnipotence of God than this? Christian Scientists unreservedly so accept it, and all mankind must ultimately come to its complete acceptance and application, that the sin and sickness, the lack, discord, war, and inhumanity that seem so much of mankind's present experience, may be destroyed. Then error's pretensions to power, place, or manifestation cannot be actually present with us or known by us, since they certainly are not present with or known to God. There is no place where He is not therefore wherever we may be, whatever danger may seem to impend, whatever sickness may seem to assail, we may know that what is not good has no place in His ever-presence. God is omnipresence, and good alone is present with Him. The sophistries of mortal mind, claiming to be intelligence, are patently false, and those sophistries and falsities are all there is to evil. It asserts that afflictions come from God that God, the infinite good who knows only good, sends evil to His children and then punishes them for accepting what He sends that God, who is Life, gives life to man and then takes it away. Mortal mind would have us believe there is joy in things material that matter is substance and alone can supply our needs that while its wrong thoughts can bring about sickness, its false concept, named matter or drugs, can sometimes but not always heal. It is only when we entertain thoughts of a supposititious mortal mind-the belief in an intelligence apart from the divine Mind-that sickness, sin, lack, unhappiness, and finally death become a part of human experience. The ideas and thoughts emanating from the infinite good which is God are necessarily as good as their divine source, and when put into practice can bring us nothing but good. The only intelligence of the universe is the infinite divine intelligence, or divine Mind, God and divine intelligence is with us wherever we are, imparting the infinite ideas which manifest the divine Mind, God. In Christian Science one learns that the all-wisdom, all-presence, and all-power of God are ever available to those who truly seek Him and that, when rightly applied, this truth heals disease. The Scriptures are clear as to the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God and this religion, based on the Bible, teaches the full import, power, comfort, healing, and peace of the Word of God. The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, illumines and makes understandable and usable the spiritual truths of the Bible. Healing in Christian Science-and healing is an essential part of this new-old religion-is wrought through practical application of this fundamental truth to every problem. Christian Science not only teaches the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God, but unreservedly practices it. Despite denominational differences in ritual and dogma, the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God are fundamental in Christian theism.
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