Article September 4, 1976 Issue

Do You Deserve to Be Healed?

NANCY J. JAGEL

To many, burdened by guilt, the answer to this question might be a despairing no. For centuries the theological dogma of original sin has been preached to a world torn by regrets and recriminations.

But Christian Science presents a very different concept of man from the one generally accepted in human thinking. It explains on the basis of the Bible that no stigma of original sin is attached to the pure and innocent man of God's creating. This man is not a mortal born into a matter world where good and evil battle constantly in his soul. The man God made is a manifestation of perfect Mind, a divine idea, reflecting precisely the goodness of his Maker.

How do we make this beautiful concept practical in an everyday experience that seems far removed from the divine ideal? This question was one for which I needed an answer.

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