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THE NON-EXISTENCE OF SIN

From the October 1887 issue of The Christian Science Journal


If God did not create sin, then He knows no sin, and hence it does not exist as a reality.

We can only grow in divine understanding as we live by faith in the Son of God; but what is this faith? In all Jesus' teachings, his faith in the spiritual, as the only true Being, was manifest. He continually condemned those whom he taught for believing anything real but God, Spirit. If we live by faith in the Son of God, we shall never admit the reality of sin.

We can only obtain health and happiness by denying self, by crucifying the flesh, and by having the Mind that was with Jesus. To deny self, we must be able to deny the claims of mortal mind,—the claims that we are sick, or that we take real pleasure in that which is unlike God.

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