From the Platform of Christian Science
and the definitions of "mortal
mind."
West
(-31- Evil not
produced by God)
XXXI. Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit,
alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, being contrary to
good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God. A sinner can receive no
encouragement from the fact that Science demonstrates the unreality of
evil, for the sinner would make a reality of sin, - would make that real
which is unreal, and thus heap up "wrath against the day of
wrath." He is joining in a conspiracy against himself, - against his
own awakening to the awful unreality by which he has been deceived. Only
those, who repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand the
unreality of evil.
East
(-32- Basis of
health and immortality)
XXXII. As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded to a more spiritual idea
of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual ideas, until
the finite gives place to the infinite, sickness to health, sin to
holiness, and God's kingdom comes "in earth, as it is in
heaven." The basis of all health, sinlessness, and immortality is the
great fact that God is the only Mind; and this Mind must be not merely
believed, but it must be understood. To get rid of sin through Science, is
to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality, and never to admit that sin
can have intelligence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by
denying its verity. Our various theories will never lose their imaginary
power for good or evil, until we lose our faith in them and make life its
own proof of harmony and God.
mortal mind
death.
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