Editorial April 22, 1985 Issue

Deserving of God's mercy

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

Everyone deserves to be healed. That's what Christian Science is all about—redemption, salvation, the spiritual joy of the pure goodness that leads to the harmony we call heaven. This Science follows the path of Christ Jesus' teachings. And Jesus tells us, "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."^{John 3:17.}

However, most Christians who have yielded to some type of sin feel conscience-stricken afterward. And at that point in their lives, this feeling is probably the best thing that can happen to them. Conscience, guilt, and remorse show that such a person is aware of right and wrong, that in some way he is responding to the presence of Christ, Truth, in his consciousness.

Christian Scientists certainly agree with other Christian denominations that sin must be recognized as sin. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in Miscellaneous Writings: "The knowledge of evil that brings on repentance is the most hopeful stage of mortal mentality. Even a mild mistake must be seen as a mistake, in order to be corrected; how much more, then, should one's sins be seen and repented of, before they can be reduced to their native nothingness!"^{Mis., p. 109.}