Asking the right questions

One time a friend lamented, “I just don’t understand why this keeps happening to me!” I didn’t have an answer, and my heart went out to him. Later I realized that there actually was no answer because he was asking the wrong question. What he needed to ask was, “Is this really happening to me?”

Christian Science explains that evil, in whatever form it appears, is unreal—an illusion. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, recognized the allness and eternal goodness of God and exposed evil’s appearance of reality as a lie. She wrote, “We bury the sense of infinitude, when we admit that, although God is infinite, evil has a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place, where all space is filled with God” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 469). 

Because there isn’t any true government but God’s, a question such as “Why am I having this health problem?” can be revised.