Article December 16, 1933 Issue

With reference to the letter of an anonymous correspondent...

Charles M. Shaw, former Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,

Blackburn Times

With reference to the letter of an anonymous correspondent in your issue of April 22, please permit me to say that your correspondent's conclusion that if God did not originate error, then spiritual man is responsible, is entirely gratuitous and is contrary to Christian Science.

There is an alternative in Mrs. Eddy's statement about the problem on page 45 of her "Miscellaneous Writings," when answering the question "If God made all that was made, and it was good, where did evil originate?" She replied: "It never originated or existed as an entity. It is but a false belief; even the belief that God is not what the Scriptures imply Him to be, All-in-all, but that there is an opposite intelligence or mind termed evil." "The admission of the reality of evil perpetuates the belief or faith in evil." And on page 277 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she categorically states. "Error has no creator." To humble faith and enlightened obedience this explanation of the nothingness of error and evil is substantiated by demonstration.

Your correspondent's effort to justify his theory by contending that there is a difference between God's idea of man and the man who is the reflection of God, has nothing whatever to warrant it in Christian Science. Indeed, if it were true, it would deprive Christian Science of its basis of demonstration, namely, perfect God and perfect man.

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