Article January 3, 1976 Issue

Understanding God Dispels Discord

WENDELL HAROLD DEWARE

How can one be rid of nagging problems? Do sickness, sin, and suffering have to be accepted as facts of life? Many sources offer solutions aimed at alleviating these problems, but there is only one source to which mankind can turn to have the causes of discord exposed as erroneous and at the same time learn how to be free from their false claims. This source is a right understanding of God as all-inclusive good, as the one infinite cause and creator of man and the universe.

Materially based wrong thinking is the origin of all sorrow and suffering. Spiritually based thinking ascribes all power, presence, and reality to God. This is right thinking—thinking that awakens consciousness to the divine reality of good and dispels discord. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says, "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 390;

An individual endeavoring to put into practice his understanding of Christian Science is sometimes tempted to believe that a current problem has a different source than all the rest. Surely this one, he thinks, must have its origin in something other than ignorance of the true nature of God. However, Mrs. Eddy has set forth an immutable and irreversible rule of healing in the statement just quoted. This rule unequivocally exposes the fable of evil beliefs, helping us see that all discord, no matter what its material name or symptoms, is totally attributable to the absence of Godlike thought.

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