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Get to Know God - a 28-day Project - Epilogue

30/10/2013

This is not the end, it is just the beginning! Keep asking questions! Here's one more:
"Question. — What is God?
Answer. — God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.
Question. — Are these terms synonymous?
Answer. — They are. They refer to one absolute God. They are also intended to express the nature, essence, and wholeness of Deity. The attributes of God are justice, mercy, wisdom, goodness, and so on." (SH 465:8-15)

We have just scratched the infinitesimal surface of a new point of view on how to Get to Know God. We only explored 4 qualities for each synonym for God and there are a whole lot more! If you wish to continue to your exploration of God in this way, here is a list of several more qualities organized under the seven synonyms for God.

If you really want to deepen your understanding of God in this way, I urge you to get the comprehensive work on this subject, Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy which can be purchased online. Or, if you want to buy one at a bookstore and be able to chat with someone about it, check your local White or Yellow Pages listings for a Christian Science Reading Room near you.

If you just want someone to talk to about it, don't hesitate to contact me and we can continue the conversation.

Above all, have fun Getting to Know God!!

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Get to Know God - a 28-day Project - Summary: God is Mind

29/10/2013

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Summary: God is Mind

“God is wise and powerful! Praise him forever and ever. He controls the times and the seasons; he makes and unmakes kings; it is he who gives wisdom and understanding. He reveals things that are deep and secret; he knows what is hidden in darkness, and he himself is surrounded by light. (GNT, Dan 2:20-22)

Reflection: We can be thankful that the supremely wise intelligence of the universe is in control, is the divine Truth, and is entirely separate from the discord of the human mind. When we have but one Mind, God, this Mind forms its own likeness in us, and we can then express this soundness in our lives.

Spiritual Fact: “When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His, — no other Love, wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no consciousness of the existence of matter or error.” (SH 205:32)

“Mind is God. The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality. There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God”. (SH 469:13-18)

Tomorrow, the Epilogue

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Get to Know God - a 28-day Project - Day 27

27/10/2013

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God is Mind
Day 27 – Soundness

sound·ness /sound- nis/ η: 1 the quality or state of being sound: free from injury, damage, defect, disease, etc.; in good condition; healthy; robust. 2 financially strong, secure, or reliable. 3 competent, sensible, or valid. 4 having no defect as to truth, justice, wisdom, or reason. 5 of substantial or enduring character. 6 following in a systematic pattern without any apparent defect in logic. 7 uninterrupted and untroubled; deep: sound sleep. 8 free from moral defect or weakness; upright, honest, or good; honorable; loyal. 9 having no legal defect.

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (KJV, II Tim 1:7)

Contemplate that you were created by Love and that Love could not create anything unlike itself – fear, or weakness, or instability; that the Mind of Love is a practical power that establishes and maintains soundness, and which is permanent and stable and is, therefore, incapable of defect. Consider that restoration happens at the mental level since this is Mind’s work.

Awareness Exercise: Become aware today of your thoughts first and then what you see externally, second. See if you can notice a connection between the two. You know that age-old question: “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” What if the answer was not in the externalized image of the chicken or the egg, but the thought of either one? Think of it this way: If you want to make a meal, you have to think of it first before you can cook it, right? The meal does not cook itself. It requires you to think about it before it can appear in your external world. Get really curious with this exercise and write down all the questions and discoveries that arise. Try not to judge what you’re thinking; just allow the thoughts to flow.

“Dear reader, [of Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy] which mind-picture or externalized thought shall be real to you, — the material or the spiritual? Both you cannot have. You are bringing out your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you try to have two models, then you practically have none. Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the real and the unreal.” (SH 360:13)

Last but not least, we’ll be checking out God is Mind: Transcendence

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Sharon Leman

Sharon Leman has been studying and practicing Christian Science for over 14 years and in 2012 dedicated her life to responding to requests for prayer in service to God and mankind.

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