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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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.

Question. - Is there more than one God or Principle?

Answer. - There is not. Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-

present Being, and His reflection is man and the universe. Omni is adopted from the Latin adjective signifying all. Hence God combines all-power or potency, all-science or true knowledge, all-presence. The varied manifesta- tions of Christian Science indicate Mind, never matter, and have one Principle.