As I understand it, our consciousness of God and our consciousness of the true man are related. As it is written in Science and Health (SH p. 140:23) “The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God, liable to wrath, repentance, and human changeableness. The Christian Science God is universal, eternal, divine Love, which changeth not and causeth no evil, disease, nor death. (The quotes from the Bible where God is said to know all sins probably refer to this Jehova.) “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” Mrs. Eddy also says that we know no more of man as the true divine image and likeness, than we know of God. (SH p. 258.) Our God (our consciousness of God or what we actually really accept of Him) is constantly developing (and the inspired Word of the Bible is our guide in this). The Bible presents also differents phases of consciousness in its stories, which we also have to “translate” according to our present light and understanding. And just as in Mrs. Eddy’s writings, there are absolute and relative statements in it, which meet and help all at their present level of understanding. That is why we may get a different message from the same sentence at different times. So as we “strive to get in”, “evil becomes more apparent and obnoxious proportionately as we advance spiritually, until it disappears from our lives.” (SH 207:2) We are constantly “being convicted by [our] own conscience”, we either take the consequences of this, or we repent and as we put on the new man, our God-idea is aligned also with our purified thoughts and lives. Until we see perfect man, we will also not see perfect God and vica versa. “The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea – perfect God and perfect man – as the basis of thought and demonstration.” (SH p. 259:11) This statement applies to BOTH God and man. Our picture/consciousness of God – who through our actual level of understanding of Truth and sin, through our own conscience sees all our sins – is individual. But “God has not forbidden man to know Him; on the contrary, the FATHER bids man have “the same Mind which was also in CHRIST JESUS”, – which was certainly the divine Mind; but God does forbid man’s acquintance with evil. Why? Because evil is no proper part of the divine knowledge.” (Unity of Good p.5) I guess we are getting there …, and until then we accept the words of those who went before us, like Mrs. Eddy and Jesus, that God is only good and knows no evil, and “the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5).