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Error Must Be Condemned
Students of Christian Science find that as they declare and affirm the spiritual truths of real, scientific being, this activity itself compels them to condemn and deny evil, or error. They must prove that God's omnipotence precludes the possibility of a secondary, opposing, or divisive power. As they accept and apply this truth in individual experience, they will realize that their thinking cannot be mesmerized and overcome by the threats of evil.
Because Christ Jesus was not deceived by the machinations of mortal mind, a mind apart from God, he was more sensitive to its presentments, recognized them immediately for what they were, and rejected them. He denounced impersonal evil (error) for all time in these familiar words addressed to his opponents: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him." John 8:44;
Perhaps it seems more loving, or at least easier, to go along merely knowing that only good exists. But that is only half the work to be done. Jesus demonstrated the healing power of affirming the allness and goodness of God and denying evil. This method most certainly is being proven today in the experience of active Christian Scientists.
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October 3, 1970 issue
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Positive Good Annuls Negative Evil
HELEN C. HERRING
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A Clear Right-of-way
JOHN A. THOMASSON
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Repression or Expression?
JEANNE GUERIN BENGSTON
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SPIRITUAL INTENT AND THE SKYLARK
Milton B. Marks
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Error Must Be Condemned
M. BETH KELLAM
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Action on Campus
J. THOMAS BLACK
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One Divine Standard of Living
NANCY JOY PERKINS
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So You Are Moving!
MARY ELIZABETH LEEVER
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Sunny's Shelter
BARBARA MARY FERGUSON
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To Care for the Environment
Carl J. Welz
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A Job Well Done
Alan A. Aylwin
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I would like to tell of a healing I experienced only last year
Clarence E. King with contributions from Maude S. King, Ruel D. King
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Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 494), "Divine Love...
Renee F. K. Vine with contributions from Virginia J. Burks
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I have been a student of Christian Science for thirty-six years,...
Charles Bosworth Cook
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Some years ago my husband was employed by the Government...
Gertrude LeMay
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from George Walker, T. W. Thomas