Article March 9, 1918 Issue

That the theologians have always found the apparent...

Carl E. Herring

Omaha (Neb.) Bee

That the theologians have always found the apparent presence of evil a hard problem, serves only to introduce the fact that until Mrs. Eddy embodied the idea of evil as unreal as the only logical sequence of the accepted fact as to the allness of God, there never had been anything but muddled thought about evil. Granting the theological dogma that evil is as real as good, you are impaled upon the horn of making God, good, the author of evil, or that of admitting a devil who has as much capacity to create evil as God has to create good. Satisfy those two propositions, or get rid of one of them as Christian Science does, and you eliminate the greater bulk of theological writings, commentaries, and creeds.

In the first chapter of the gospel of St. John we read, "All things were made by him [God]; and without him was not any thing made that was made;" and in the first chapter of Genesis we find that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

In order to accept good and evil as real we must contradict the Scriptures that God's creation is good, as well as deny that God made all things. Men and women of culture and sound judgment have found a soul-satisfying haven in the Christian Science teachings as to the unreality of evil, and it is our only purpose to invite such as so desire to investigate for themselves, that perchance they too may find the Scriptures illuminated as well as harmonized.

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