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CHRISTIAN THEISM

From the September 1885 issue of The Christian Science Journal

This article was later republished in Miscellaneous Writings 1883-1896:  Mis. 13:13-15:3


Scholastic Theology elaborates the proposition that evil is a factor of good, and to believe in the reality of evil is accessory to a rounded sense of the existence of good.

This frail hypothesis is founded on the basis of material and mortal evidence, only what the senses confirm and human reason accepts. The science of Soul reverses this proposition, overturns the testimony of the five erring senses, and reveals in clearer divinity the existence only of good, that is God and his idea. This postulate of divine science needs only to be conceded to afford opportunity for proof of its correctness, and the clearer discernment of good.

Take the original term "God," and you will find it good; then define good as God, and you will find that good is Omnipotent, has all power; hence, there is no power left to evil; good filleth all space, being omnipresent. Divest your thought then of the mortal and material view which contradicts the ever-presence and power of good, and take in only the immortal facts which include these, and where will you see or feel evil, or find its existence necessary to the origin or ultimate of good?

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