Testimony of Healing May 25, 1981 Issue

My junior year in college was marked by an earnest search for...

GRETCHEN HANSEN CHARWAT

My junior year in college was marked by an earnest search for the meaning of life and the true nature of the universe. Then I found Christian Science. What joy, freedom, and abundant good this teaching has brought me!

As a child I'd been thoughtful and studious, full of questions about God. Despite my upbringing in an orthodox Protestant religion, I could never believe that the Almighty creates man a sinner, then punishes him for weaknesses inherent in a divinely bestowed, faulty character.

College introduced me to the works of many famous writers and philosophers of the past centuries. As I read these and studied the natural sciences and various religious doctrines, I was faced with numerous contradictions and illogical conclusions. The religion I had known since childhood didn't answer my questions either. Sensitive to the confusion and evil that seemed so prevalent in the world, I became depressed and confused. Finally I abandoned the conviction, formed in my youth, that God is good and loving. I had reached a conclusion: either there is no God or, if there is, He just doesn't care about mankind. This was the only way I could explain the rampant injustice and evil that I saw around me.

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