Healing September 30, 1972 Issue

[Ability to demonstrate Christian Science comes with study and practice of the truth taught by Christ Jesus and revealed in Science and Health. This series touches upon some ways in which this truth can be applied.]

Healing by overcoming sin

In the New Testament, the English word "sin" is translated from a Greek word meaning "missing the mark." Sin, then, could be said to represent inaccurate thinking and acting—thought and conduct that is spiritually off target, willfully disobedient to the law of God, good.

Because sin—hatred, selfishness, dishonesty, sensuality—is a bland denial of God, divine Principle, and of the consequent spiritual goodness of man, it tends, in belief, to shut one out from the health and harmony implicit in the real man, God's perfect image. Sin disturbs and darkens the thought of those who yield to it, and because the body is an expression of human thought, it externalizes itself in the form of disease. Speaking of its ultimate effect, Paul writes, "The wages of sin is death."^{ Rom. 6:23;}

Christian Science shows us how to cure sickness that has been caused by sin. Through prayerful communion with God the sin must first be detected, admitted to be what it is, an evil—never justified. Then it must be destroyed, not only in thought by vigorous denial of it and the affirmation of man's pure being in God, perfect Mind, but also in act through firm determination to live according to the law of this divine Mind. Mrs. Eddy tells us, "There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown."^{ Science and Health, p. 469.}

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