A College Student Writes

Overcoming Destructive Criticism

BRENT H. NETTLE

Destructive criticism in any form has as its very base the denial of God and of the fact that He created man in His image and likeness, perfect and complete. Such criticism would seem to give power to what Christ Jesus referred to as a liar, to the mortal, carnal mind, which is always occupied with the goingson of so-called material existence. This erroneous mind never sees beyond itself, beyond material concepts and thoughts.

There is never any excuse for carping criticism, especially among students of Christian Science. This Science teaches that man can reflect only the qualities of God, unerring, divine intelligence. Are we seeing the real man when we see faults in another as realities and emphasize them? Which creation are we believing in: error's dream child, the man who seems to be physical and erring, or the creation in which Mind is substance and man is its spiritual idea, pure and good?

To find fault with someone without constructively helping him to progress is to give support to error's argument that God does not give equally and continually of His love to His children. We are also supporting the material concept of man when we are resentful of another's good. God gives equal abundance of good to each individual; and to the extent that we make use of this good, we are proving this truth.

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