Article October 23, 1954 Issue

SEEING THE UNREALITY OF EVIL

RONALD GRAY WALKER

How often one longs to gain an absolute conviction that all evil is unreal, nonexistent. That the attainment of such a conviction and its increasing demonstration in human affairs are possible here and now is clearly explained in Christian Science. Through discernment of the spiritual truths regarding God and man, as found in this Science, one learns how to prove the allness of God, good, and the consequent unreality of evil.

However, Christian Science does not teach that because evil is unreal it can be ignored. The student of this Science must be awake to the aggressive and subtle claims of evil in its myriad forms and, through his understanding of true being, see how to handle the claims of error and reduce them to nothingness.

But one may ask, "If evil is unreal, why do we need to destroy it?" In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 472): "All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin. sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise." It is because evil seems real to human, erring belief that we are required to grapple with every phase of error until all error is eliminated from our experience.

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