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First of all, we know that God is One. Secondly, we know that God is divine, infinite, all-powerful, and ever-present. And finally, we know from the Bible that God is Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. These are indisputable facts from which accurate conclusions about the nature of Deity can be drawn. For example: We know that there is only one Mind, and that Mind is divine, infinite, all-powerful, and ever-present. Likewise, we know that there is one Soul because there is one God, and that Soul is both infinite and individual. We know also that Soul is divine, all-powerful, and ever-present. These same spiritual facts apply equally to Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love. When we begin to see more clearly how these terms relate to each other, how they combine as One, and how they constitute the nature of the Infinite, our view of God as all-encompassing is greatly enhanced, and we become even more intimately familiar with the divine healing power and presence. When we reason humbly and prayerfully in this way, based strictly on what the Bible reveals about God, our conclusions are not human opinions but spiritual facts. We learn, for example, that Spirit is all-inclusive, and consequently the only real substance. We learn that God is Life, and that Life must therefore be eternal, self-existent. We learn that truth is all-powerful, and that it both constitutes and includes all that is real. Finally, we will discover that God is divine Love, that good is the only power there is, and that God’s goodness governs the entire universe in perfect harmony, notwithstanding outward appearances to the contrary. Reminding ourselves consistently of these spiritual facts protects our thinking from error, from the deceptive and destructive influence of that old serpent and its lies about God. During this prayerful reasoning process it is important to bear in mind what the Apostle Paul says on this subject in his letter to the Corinthians, (I Cor. 2:14), “What man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God ... the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” In other words, the only one who can know the things of God is the All-knowing God Himself. What manifests itself in our experience as knowledge of Him is simply evidence of the spiritual fact that we are His image and likeness, and that we include by reflection all that belongs to our Maker. Course Steps Home Step Three |