No Copartnership Between Truth and Error

Duncan Sinclair

On page 356 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy speaks very definitely of the impassable gulf between Truth and error. "There is neither a present nor an eternal copartnership between error and Truth, between flesh and Spirit," she writes. And she goes on to say, "God is as incapable of producing sin, sickness, and death as He is of experiencing these errors." Thus Christian Science declares the allness and omnipotence of God and denies that He has aught to do with sickness, sin, and death, denies that He either creates them, experiences them, or tolerates them.

Now Christian Science states the truth about God without any trace of ambiguity. It definitely reveals the divine nature, affirming that God is all-inclusive Truth; or, in other words, that all truth is the expression of God. Moreover, it affirms that since God is eternal, all truth is eternal. Mortal beliefs may seem to persist for a brief period of time, but they soon change, and ultimately pass away; but the truth concerning reality, God's creation, never alters. How wonderful to know the unalterable nature of Truth! How it serves to raise us above the temporal, the fleeting—above all the erroneous beliefs of so-called mortal mind! The perfection of God's creation, including man, God's idea, is indisputable, because it is absolutely established in Truth. And thus we apprehend the immortal nature of man.

Because of the fact that all truth is of God, and because every phase of truth partakes of the divine nature, we may readily distinguish between Truth and error. Thus, Truth is permanent, error is temporary; Truth is always good in its effects, error is never productive of good; Truth when understood heals, adjusts, corrects, destroys all unlike itself, whereas error has neither correcting, adjusting, nor healing power. Moreover, Truth is omnipotent, error is impotent. In short, the omnipotent power of Truth operates incessantly, producing effects which are always good; whereas error has only a seeming activity, and its supposititious effects are the opposite of good. And while the effects of good are real, the seeming effects of error never are. Thus there is never the slightest copartnership between Truth and error.

But error claims to be true, claims to exist, claims to produce results; and if its claims are accepted, the seeming effects of error—sin, disease, and death—may be believed to be real. An utter denial can be given, however, to these enemies of the human race, because they are all based on error, the error of believing that there exists a power other than God, or that God produces them. But God is infinite good; and therefore He knows naught of error—evil—and its supposititious effects. And because this is so, we may rest assured that as Truth is better understood, the errors of material sense will become proportionably less, until with fullness of understanding they shall have entirely vanished away. Christ Jesus said, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up."

The student of Christian Science is in the probationary period now, awakening out of the material dream. Truth has been revealed to him through Christian Science; and as he applies what he understands of it, he overcomes the belief that matter or evil is real, and so awakens out of the material illusion. Our revered Leader writes (Science and Health, p. 347): "The dream that matter and error are something must yield to reason and revelation. Then mortals will behold the nothingness of sickness and sin, and sin and sickness will disappear from consciousness. The harmonious will appear real, and the inharmonious unreal." And this is what is happening through the aid of Christian Science to-day. Men and women everywhere—and children too—are gaining a knowledge of God, divine Truth; and in proportion to their knowledge they are mastering the false beliefs of material sense,—awakening from "the dream that matter and error are something,"—and are thereby being healed, if they need healing, or preserved from the effects of erroneous thinking.

In Christian Science the clearest possible line of demarcation is drawn between Truth and error, between Spirit and matter, between good and evil. God, Truth, Spirit, Mind, is real; matter, evil, error,—the supposititious opposite of God,—is unreal. From that position Christian Science never resiles. With mortal error it never compromises. If it did, we should be deprived of the perfect, unalterable divine Principle which has been revealed to us by absolute Christian Science. Let us hold fast then to absolute Truth, firm in our understanding of its omnipotence, and never forgetful of error's unreality and powerlessness. By so doing we shall ultimately gain the victory over all sensuousness, entering with joy into the consciousness of ever present harmony.

Duncan Sinclair

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