Article July 6, 1946 Issue

The Scientific Method of Forgiveness

MARGARET HORN

"To err is human, to forgive divine," wrote the poet. It is always in line with divine wisdom and Love to see error as no part of true being, and thus to align one's thought and action with the divine Mind, which knows no necessity for forgiveness. This Mind does not admit sin or evil to be actualities. Students of Christian Science are learning to understand clearly that God's man is sinless, needing no forgiveness: his is the spiritual, true selfhood, the opposite of a so-called sinning mortal.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, through her inspired understanding of the lifework of Christ Jesus, states clearly in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 476, 477), "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals." The Apostle Paul says in his letter to the Philippians (2:5), "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." We may well ask ourselves, Am I seeing a sinning mortal, or am I seeing in a degree the perfect man, sinless in Truth, the forever reflection of Love?

What are we beholding as real, perfection or sin, sinlessness or sinfulness? Many students have been helped by pondering the following statements by Mrs. Eddy in "Unity of Good" (p. 49): "The more I understand true humanhood, the more I see it to be sinless,—as ignorant of sin as is the perfect Maker;" and later on the same page, "So long as I hold evil in consciousness, I cannot be wholly good."

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