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(-30- Divine pardon)
XXX. The destruction of sin is the divine method of
pardon. Divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys
error, and Love destroys hate. Being destroyed,
sin needs no other form of forgiveness.
Does not God's pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy
and involve the final destruction of all sin?
(-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.
(-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
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