Article August 22, 1983 ISSUE

"The accuser is not there"

EMILY LACEY

"Know your enemy" is a well-known dictum. In order to be free from the influence of the enemy, evil, it is helpful to discern how it claims to operate. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 Mrs. Eddy gives this statement on the nature of evil: "In the Greek devil is named serpent—liar—the god of this world; and St. Paul defines this world's god as dishonesty, craftiness, handling the word of God deceitfully. The original text defines devil as accuser, calumniator...." Message for 1901, p. 16.

Studying Christian Science, we learn not only of God's ever-presence, but also of evil's consequent never-presence. Clearly, in divine Love's allness there can be no evil—neither accuser nor accused—for all is in accord with the nature of divine Love. Didn't the Revelator point to this great truth when he recorded, "The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan"? Rev. 12:9. In heaven, divine reality, there is no accuser present. Evil has no place in omnipresent good.

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