Unity of Good eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about Unity of Good.

Unity of Good eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 50 pages of information about Unity of Good.

As God is Mind, if this Mind is familiar with evil, all cannot be good therein.  Our infinite model would be taken away.  What is in eternal Mind must be reflected in man, Mind’s image.  How then could man escape, or hope to escape, from a knowledge which is everlasting in his creator?

God never said that man would become better by learning to distinguish evil from good,—­but the contrary, that by this knowledge, by man’s first disobedience, came “death into the world, and all our woe.”

“Shall mortal man be more just than God?” asks the poet-patriarch.  May men rid themselves of an incubus which God never can throw off?  Do mortals know more than God, that they may declare Him absolutely cognizant of sin?

God created all things, and pronounced them good.  Was evil among these good things?  Man is God’s child and image.  If God knows evil, so must man, or the likeness is incomplete, the image marred.

If man must be destroyed by the knowledge of evil, then his destruction comes through the very knowledge caught from God, and the creature is punished for his likeness to his creator.

God is commonly called the sinless, and man the sinful; but if the thought of sin could be possible in Deity, would Deity then be sinless?  Would God not of necessity take precedence as the infinite sinner, and human sin become only an echo of the divine?

Such vagaries are to be found in heathen religious history.  There are, or have been, devotees who worship not the good Deity, who will not harm them, but the bad deity, who seeks to do them mischief, and whom therefore they wish to bribe with prayers into quiescence, as a criminal appeases, with a money-bag, the venal officer.

Surely this is no Christian worship!  In Christianity man bows to the infinite perfection which he is bidden to imitate.  In Truth, such terms as divine sin and infinite sinner are unheard-of contradictions,—­absurdities; but would they be sheer nonsense, if God has, or can have, a real knowledge of sin?

Ways Higher than Our Ways

A lie has only one chance of successful deception,—­to be accounted true.  Evil seeks to fasten all error upon God, and so make the lie seem part of eternal Truth.

Emerson says, “Hitch your wagon to a star.”  I say, Be allied to the deific power, and all that is good will aid your journey, as the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. (Judges v. 20.) Hourly, in Christian Science, man thus weds himself with God, or rather he ratifies a union predestined from all eternity; but evil ties its wagon-load of offal to the divine chariots,—­or seeks so to do,—­that its vileness may be christened purity, and its darkness get consolation from borrowed scintillations.

Jesus distinctly taught the arrogant Pharisees that, from the beginning, their father, the devil, was the would-be murderer of Truth.  A right apprehension of the wonderful utterances of him who “spake as never man spake,” would despoil error of its borrowed plumes, and transform the universe into a home of marvellous light,—­“a consummation devoutly to be wished.”

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