The origin of evil is the problem of ages. It confronts each generation anew. It confronts Christian Science. The question is often asked, If God created only the good, whence cometh the evil?
To this question, Christian Science replies: Evil never did exist as an entity. It is but a belief that there is an opposite Intelligence to God. This belief is a species of idolatry.
The mortal admission of the reality of evil perpetuates faith in evil, and the Scriptures declare that "To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are." This leading, self-evident proposition of Christian Science, that good being real, its opposite is necessarily unreal, needs to be grasped in all its divine requirements.
