Article October 17, 1953 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PROVES INHARMONY UNREAL

[Original article in German]

ELFRIEDE LINDE-EBBINGHAUS

No one who believes in God will doubt that He is perfect, but there is only a slow recognition of the scientific fact that man and everything created by God must reflect His perfection. The world and its material theories contradict this fact. However, these theories rest upon material sense testimony, and they therefore have no validity.

The fundamental truth of Christian Science that God is the only creator and divine Principle of all being is the basis from which the Christian Scientist classifies material sense testimony as deceptive and therefore unreal. God is All-in-all. He is perfect. Thus perfection constitutes allness. Where, then, is there room for imperfection and inharmony? Perfect being, created by Mind, has no more contact with evil or matter than light has with darkness. But as light swallows up darkness, so Truth extinguishes error. Error flees before Truth, and with it go all its phenomena of inharmony. Since inharmony is of the devil, the Scriptural admonition can be applied to it (James 4:7), "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." It is the devil, error, that should flee!

Jesus was the first fully to acquaint mankind with the deceptiveness of material sense testimony and to show one how to conduct himself toward it. He heeded not the testimony of the senses or the law based on this testimony. He heeded only the testimony of spiritual sense and the laws of Spirit. In this way he mastered the claims of matter and proved to mankind that there is no other existence than harmonious existence in divine Mind. Mary Baker Eddy, speaking of the evils that Christ Jesus destroyed, says (No and Yes, p. 36), "Had he been as conscious of these evils as he was of God, wherein there is no consciousness of human error, Jesus could not have resisted them."

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