Article March 6, 1920 Issue

Christian Scientists are pleased to note that the clergyman...

Robert G. Steel

Lansing (Mich.) Journal

Christian Scientists are pleased to note that the clergyman who criticized their religious beliefs in a sermon as reported in a recent issue, commended the logic by which Christian Science reaches the conclusion that disease and death are errors of mortal mind. The statement of our clerical critic, however, that the premise on which this conclusion is based, namely, that there is no sin, is a fallacy, places him in the unfortunate position of denying the plain teachings of the Bible.

In John's gospel we read that all things were made by God, "and without him was not any thing made that was made." In Genesis we are told that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Therefore sin, if it exists, must have been made by God, and must be good. Now, no one believes that sin is good. Even the sinner knows there is no goodness in sin. It is evident, then, that God could not have made sin, and since God is omnipotent and omnipresent, in reality sin does not exist.

Christian Science does not deny that sin seems to exist. Like all phases of evil, it is a product of a belief in a power separate and apart from and opposed to God. Paul called this supposed power the carnal mind, which he said was "enmity against God," divine Mind. It is this carnal, material, fleshly mind—the supposititious opposite of God—that is called in Christian Science mortal mind. In explaining its origin Jesus said it was "a liar, and the father of it." From it emanates all sin, sickness, discord, and death.

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