Addendum to "Change is good!" blog

My recent blog of October 6, (Change is good!) was a short one, written to counteract the aggressive mental suggestion that appears as our thought that something not-good is unfolding.  Furthermore, it was written to encourage those who seem to be tormented, or imprisoned, by negative thoughts.  Simply put, it was written for those who fear change, or do not know or realize that God gave man dominion in verse 26 of the first chapter in the Holy Bible.

My affirmation that "Change is good!" is immediately followed by a necessary condition:  to know as God knows. This morning, I came across some paragraphs in a Christian Science Lecture*, given in 1930, that I want to use to embellish this. It is as follows below (clicking the hypertext will take you to the full copy in which this quote appears):

God Knowable 

In order to understand God's law we must necessarily gain the true knowledge of God, for the nature of God's law will depend entirely on the nature of God or the Lawgiver. It is right here that Christian Science brings to us one of its greatest bless­ings by declaring and proving that God is knowable. This may not seem so significant at first, but a little thought will convince you of its tre­mendous importance. 

Every religion in the world outside of Christian Science is predicated very largely on the theory of post­poned good. Study any religion you may and you will find this to be true. The Bible says, "Acquaint now thy­self with him, and be at peace." The theory of postponed good says that you cannot know God, hence your good will have to come to you in the future. So extensively has this theory that God is unknowable permeated religious thought that one of the main objections to Mrs. Eddy's teaching has been that she has coupled the words "science" and "religion." Proba­bly no other postulate of Christian Science has aroused so much opposi­tion. Science has been variously de­fined as "classified knowledge; de­monstrable facts; provable truth". Is it not, then, self-evident that in de­monstrating and interpreting the rule of universal harmony we must know the exact, provable, and demonstrable or scientific truth about God? Mys­tery, superstition, or conjecture will never enable us to prove anything in religion any more than in mathematics or any other science. We have no less an authority than our great Master, Jesus the Christ, for such a scientific stand. He declared, ''And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." And it is a matter of the greatest significance that in this instance the Greek word translated "know" means to know exactly, accurately, or sci­entifically. In strict accord with our great Master's teaching, Mrs. Eddy has declared in the Preface of "Sci­ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. vii), "The only guar­antee of obedience is a right apprehension of Him whom to know aright is Life eternal."

Please click the first paragraph of the quote above to read the rest of this Christian Science Lecture, which includes paragraphs headlined as follows:  Christian Science Defined, God's True Nature, God Is Good, God Is Love, Law of God, Mission of Jesus, True Healing, Salvation, Overcoming Fear, Root Cause of Fear, No Evil Past, Evil Only a Dream, True Prayer, Elements of Prayer, Healing Prayer, Sin Destroyed, True Prayer Not Will-Power, Oneness of Good, Transforming Power of Christian Science, Overcoming of Lack, Discoverer of Christian Science.


*Christian Science: The Revelation of Divine Love, by Charles V. Winn, C.S.