Article September 5, 1959 Issue

OVERCOMING UNIVERSAL FALSE BELIEFS

MARIE LOMBARD

Human history shows that mankind has long been in bondage to age-old superstitions and doctrines. Today as in the past many individuals seem to cling to or to be swayed by traditional theories. The world is continually holding its beliefs of sin, sickness, and other impositions before mankind. Many accept, consciously or unconsciously, these presentments. In the Bible the author of Hebrews admonishes (13:9), "Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines."

Christian Science shows that harmful, aggressive theories are suggestions of the so-called carnal, or mortal, mind. They must not be accepted, but vigorously rejected, for they are not true. They do not originate in God, the one all-wise, loving Mind, Spirit, who imparts perpetual harmony to His creation, including man. False beliefs are overcome by one's understanding the fact that man is spiritual and perfect, immune from mortal mind whims. Man is receptive to good because God, good, is universal. Health, peace, eternality, abundance, joy, and holiness are the individual and indisputable birthright of man, the blessed child of God.

Christ Jesus, who understood the nothingness of material beliefs, roused individual and collective thinking out of subjection to customary beliefs of his day. He healed the palsied man's individual thought of palsy; he annulled the group thinking concerning the death of Lazarus by calling him forth from the tomb; and he overcame the collective belief of hunger by feeding the multitudes. Alert to the tendency of frail mortals to accept and carry out the impulses of mass thinking, Jesus warned his disciples (Matt. 16:6), "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." In other words, beware of the false doctrines of men.

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