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Routing out the ‘oppressors’
For the Lesson titled: "Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?" from October 6-12, 2014
The Golden Text in this week’s Christian Science Bible Lesson, titled “Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real?” opens with the Psalmist’s plea for salvation from “mine oppressors” (Psalms 119:121). What greater oppressors does humankind have than sin, disease, and death? And what greater salvation could we experience than freedom from these oppressors? The Golden Text closes with the Psalmist’s delight in God’s law (see 119:174). This is the law that destroys the oppressors.
Section 1 affirms that God’s law of truth frees man from so-called laws of sin, disease, and death by forgiving iniquities, healing diseases, and redeeming lives from destruction (see Psalms 103:2–4, citation 2). Any law that claims we are born sinners, or helpless sufferers of disease, or inevitable victims of death, is a false law that Christian Science rejects—because Science is based on the eternal truth that a God of love does not enact laws to condemn His own creation. On the contrary, Love’s divine law annihilates sin, disease, and death.

October 6, 2014 issue
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Letters
Abby Hillman, Claire Mcarthur, Diane Taylor Dickey, Lovestodance, Eleanor Lee
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The significance of joy
Ruth Geyer
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Don’t forget God’s love
Mark Strickland
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The owl in the log
Anne Holway Higgins
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Defending true manhood
Rosalinda Johnson
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Routing out the ‘oppressors’
Steve Warren
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It’s not about ‘following the crowd’
Irene Schanche Bowker
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A healing on Mt. Kenya
Shea Orth-Moore
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Persistent leg trouble healed
Mary Kuhl
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Saved from drowning in rip current
Deborah Wright
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Infection healed
Meridee Olsen
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The Journal, Sentinel, and Herald—feeding the hungry
David C. Kennedy