Article May 12, 1956 Issue

LET US FACE THE FACTS

FRANKIE L. THOMAS

The phrase "facing the facts" may sound a note of something grim or unpleasant, but such is not the case according to the teachings of Christian Science. Facing the facts as taught in Christian Science is a healing and beneficial activity.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 122), "The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord,—assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven,—the actual reign of harmony on earth." What a wonderful promise: "the great facts of Life, rightly understood," will defeat sin, sickness, and death and "reveal the kingdom of heaven."

One may ask, "What are these great facts of Life?" The first chapter of Genesis records the great facts of Life, or spiritual creation in all its perfection and goodness. In this chapter we read (verses 26-31): "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. . . . And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Since God's creation is very good, one may ask how sin, sickness, and death originated. In the next chapter we read (verses 6, 7): "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." And woman, we are told, was made from a rib taken from Adam.

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