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What is God?
(NOTE:  The following is a lengthy excerpt from my new book Christian Science Terminology
It consists of extracts taken from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.  These sentences or phrases point to how God is defined
in Christian Science.  The font and format used below does not fully reflect what is in the actual
book.  Page and line numbers from Science and Health are at the end of each definition, so that
the reader can look up the complete sentence and surrounding context.)
 
 

God          (See also Life; Love; Mind; Principle; Soul; Spirit; Truth)

 

“is Love.” (2:23)

 

“is intelligence.” (2:23)

 

is “the Divine Being.” (3:12)

 

“is good, omnipotent, omnipresent, infinite.” (3:18)

 

“is not separate from the wisdom He bestows.” (6:5)

 

is “a very present help in trouble.” (13:1)

 

is “our Father-Mother.” (16:27)

 

is “the Principle of Christ.” (18:14)

 

“is the only author of man.” (29:16)

 

is “the Father of men.” (29:23)

 

is “the divine Principle of the man Jesus.” (29:27)

 

is “the only creator, and therefore . . . the Father of all.” (31:10)

 

is “divine, infinite Love.” (53:14)

 

is “Soul.” (71:7)

 

is “the infinite All-in-all.” (72:24)

 

“is the only Spirit.” (73:10)

 

is “universal good.” (76:7)

 

is “the invisible good dwelling in eternal Science.” (78:31)

 

“is our Life.” (107:17)                       

 

is “the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action.” (109:17)

 

is “the infinite One.” (112:16)

 

is “the great Giver.” (112:19)

 

“is the Principle of divine metaphysics.” (112:32)

 

is “divine Principle, Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Spirit, Mind.” (115:13)

 

is infinite Person, — in the sense of infinite personality, but not in the lower sense. An infinite

Mind in a finite form is an absolute impossibility.” (116:28)

 

“is One, — not one of a series, but one alone and without an equal.” (117:3)

 

is, “in one sense . . . identical with nature, but this nature is spiritual and is not expressed in matter.” (119:17)

 

is not “the lawgiver, whose lightning palsies or prostrates in death the child at prayer.” (119:18)

 

“is natural good, and is represented only by the idea of goodness.” (119:21)

 

is “the creator of the spiritual universe, including man.” (127:4)

 

is not “the author of sin, sickness, and death, but . . . divine Principle, Supreme Being, Mind,

exempt from all evil.” (127:17)

 

is “the divine Principle of all being.” (131:5)

 

is “the divine Principle which brings out all harmony.” (132:12)

 

“is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death.” 

(140:25)

 

is “omnipotent Mind.” (170:1)

 

is “the ever-present Mind who understands all things.”  (180:25)

 

“is the source and condition of all existence.”  (181:1)

 

is “the only Life, substance, and intelligence.” (185:19)

 

is “immortal Mind.” (188:1)     

 

is “divine good.” (203:31)

 

“alone is man’s life.” (203:32)

 

“is at once the centre and circumference of being.”  (203:32)

 

“is not the creator of an evil mind.”  (207:8)

 

“is self-existent and self-expressed, though indefinable as a whole.” (213:9)

 

“is infinite omnipresent Spirit.” (223:7)

 

is “the divine Principle, Love.” (230:9)

 

is “Truth, Life, Love.” (231:10)

 

“is not the author of mortal discords.”  (231:16)

 

“is good and the fount of all being.”  (243:32)

 

is “the one ever-present I AM.”  (256:11)

 

is “self-created.” (267:8)

 

“is the divine Principle of all that represents Him and of all that really exists.”  (272:29)

 

is “the Soul of man and of all existence.” (280:26)

 

is “perpetual in His own individuality, harmony, and immortality.” (280:28)

 

is “the one Ego, the one Mind or Spirit.” (281:14)

 

is “the saving Principle, or divine Love.”  (285:23)

 

is the “divine origin” of spiritual ideas.  (298:23)

 

is “the Soul, or Mind, of the spiritual man.”  (302:20)

 

“is Love. He is therefore the divine, infinite Principle, called Person or God.”  (302:25)

 

 “is the only Mind governing man.” (308:5)

 

“is His own infinite Mind, and expresses all.” (310:10)

 

is Truth.” (312:18)

 

“is infinite Love, which must be unlimited.” (312:21)

 

“is the only Life.” (324:14)

 

“is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man.” (330:11)

 

is “Life, Truth, and Love . . . the triune Person . . . the triply divine Principle, Love.” (331:26)

 

“is the parent Mind.” (336:30)

 

“is the lawmaker, but He is not the author of barbarous codes.” (381:15)

 

“is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin.” (390:22)

 

“is the only power.” (419:27)

 

“‘is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.’” (444:11)

 

“is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love.” (465:9)

 

is “omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being.” (465:18)

 

“is the only Mind.” (469:14)

 

“is the Principle of man.” (476:9)

 

is “the origin and governor of all that Science reveals.” (480:11)

 

“is not man.” (480:19)

 

is “the creative Principle — Life, Truth, and Love.” (502:27)

 

“is the divinely creative Principle” of all individuality. (513:20)

 

“is Love always.” (537:32)

 

is “the great First Cause.”  (547:20)

 

“is the Life, or intelligence, which forms and preserves the individuality and identity of animals

as well as of men.” (550:5)

 

is the “divine immortal Principle” of the universe. (554:3)

 

is “the self-existent and eternal.” (555:17)

 

is “the Life of man.” (555:30)

 

is “divine Principle . . . Life, represented by the Father; . . . Truth, represented by the Son;

. . . Love, represented by the Mother.” (569:1)

 

is “the divine Principle of harmony.” (573:15)

 

is “the builder and maker of . . . New Jerusalem.” (575:10)

 
 
 
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