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teaches man that God is the only Life, and that this Life
is Truth and Love; that God is to be understood, adored,
and demonstrated; that divine Truth casts out suppositional
error and heals the sick.
(God's law destroys evil)
The way which leads to Christian Science is straight
and narrow. God has set His signet upon Science, making
it coordinate with all that is real and only
with that which is harmonious and eternal.
Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not
originate in God nor belong to His government. His
law, rightly understood, destroys them. Jesus furnished
proofs of these statements.
(Evanescent materiality)
Question 12. - What is error?
( - Adam: Not God's man, who represents the one God
and is His own image and likeness - )
Answer. - Error is a supposition that pleasure and
pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in
matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's
faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth.
Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal
because untrue. It is that which seemeth to be and is not.
If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should
have a self-evident absurdity-namely, erroneous truth.
Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
(Unrealities that seem real)
Question 13. - Is there no sin?
( - Adam: The opposite of Spirit and His creations - )
Answer. - All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious
and eternal. That which He creates is good,
and He makes all that is made. Therefore
the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is
the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring
belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not
true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian
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