Obeying his precious precepts
/Love, as a synonym for God, occurs more times in “Atonement and Eucharist” than in any other chapter in Science and Health. How does this chapter define Love?
“God is Love” (Science and Health, p. 42:1–2).
In “Atonement and Eucharist,” Love is often linked with Truth and Principle.
Jesus “could give a more spiritual idea of life than other men, and could demonstrate the Science of Love – his Father or divine Principle” (p. 30:1).
Jesus “present[ed] the divine law of Love” (p. 30:17).
What is required to live as a transparency for Love, God?
Follow the master’s example. “Obeying his precious precepts, – following his demonstration so far as we apprehend it,…at last we shall rest, sit down with him, in a full understanding of the divine Principle which triumphs over death (Science and Health, p. 31:17–22).
Mortals “must get the true idea and divine Principle of all that really exists and governs the universe harmoniously” (p. 39:25–27).
Christ Jesus often rebukes rabbinical error. How does a Christian Scientist face down popular beliefs that oppose the practice of Christian Science?
“Jesus urged the commandment, ‘Thou shalt have no other Gods before me,’ which may be rendered: Thou shalt have no belief of Life as mortal; thou shalt not know evil, for there is one Life, – even God, good” (Science and Health, p. 19:29–1).
What are the benefits of building one’s life on the Rock?
We receive “directly the divine power” (Science and Health, p. 192:31). Not that we have divine powers, but that we open our eyes to the Truth that we live, and move, and have our being in God. That the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And that:
God is.
There is a God.
God is good.
God is all.
All is God, good.