Article May 27, 1996 Issue

A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE

This column is a place to explore questions with other readers and with the editorial staff of the Christian Science Sentinel. The responses are offered not so much to close the question but to open possibilities for further prayer, exploration, and living of spiritual truth.

Q. How can one deny the existence of the material world and still feel he or she is doing something sane?—from an inquirer in New York

A. The questioner may be feeling that to deny the existence of the material world would wipe out our sense of identity and much that is good and beautiful. Yet this is certainly not what Christian Science teaches when it points to the reality of God as divine, infinite Spirit and of man as spiritual, made in God's likeness.

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