Is there sin? and What is sin? These questions are of great importance, because it grows clearer to me daily that, if there were no sin, there would be no sickness or death.
As a Christian Scientist I say, most emphatically, There is no sin. If there is no sin, there is no need for the second question, What is sin? If my assertion is true, that there is no sin, then the world is making a great ado about nothing; and the sooner we stop wasting so much earnest thought on nothing, and turn our attention, with the same amount of energy, to that which is something, the sooner we shall understand man as he really is, — the likeness of God.
Now, what authority have I to declare there is no sin? Simply this: I believe the Bible to be God-inspired, and, therefore, to be true; and it says in the Bible that God is Good; that He is the only God, the only Creator and Father of all; that He is no respecter of persons; and, also, that Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Again, the Bible teaches us to understand God as omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient. The last three epithets come from Latin words, which mean all-present, all-powerful, and all-knowing, — not knowing partially, but knowing wholly, or else all does not mean all. We also read in the Bible that God is perfect, too pure "to behold iniquity;" and this necessitates His being without sin.
