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When tempted
When individuals engage in wrongdoing, or sin, they tend to blame themselves. This produces the hurtful emotion of guilt. Wrong thinking, speaking, and acting should indeed be regretted, repented of, and forsaken. But proper regret includes no personal condemnation.
One of the foundation stones in scientific Christianity is the truth that the individual, as in reality the spiritual offspring of God, good, is never destroyed, but that sin—thoughts and acts opposed to good, omnipotent God—is expiated only as destroyed. This view of sin is so important that it finds expression in one of the religious tenets given by Mrs. Eddy, the Founder of Christian Science, and subscribed to by all Christian Scientists: "We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts." Science and Health, p. 497.

December 7, 1981 issue
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Our eternal star
LOUIS ABRAHAMS
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Understand your completeness
GRACE FLYNN
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We are loved
SUEN-SZU HUANG
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Illegal "pets"
BARBARA CORBETT MYERS
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When tempted
DANIEL E. LEES
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To love God more
PIERRE PRADERVAND
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"I am not like that!"
EVERETT LINUS PURCELL
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Humility and human will
PAUL AGNEW RANDALL
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The simplicity of man's oneness with God
WILLIAM E. MOODY
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The presence of power
NATHAN A. TALBOT
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Stilling storms
VERA SOHR KELLY
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Tony's train ride
Robert A. Moss
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"Let the redeemed of the Lord say so" (Ps. 107:2)
PATRICIA SHADDOCK STETLER
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My family and I have turned to God in every need and have...
EDITH DRAJESKE ROBINSON with contributions from DEAN W. ROBINSON
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My first healing in Christian Science took place early in my life
JOSEPHINE M. McVICAR
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One Saturday morning I was walking barefoot in our dining...
STEVEN WENNERSTROM