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TRUTH UNCOVERS ERROR

From the March 1943 issue of The Christian Science Journal


God, good, is All. There is no error or evil in real being. Does not this truth bring joy into human experience whenever it is established relative to the solving of some specific problem? As the allness of God is the basic fact of true being, every constructive activity must necessarily bring human thought closer to its realization. The uncovering, that is, the destruction, of error is a constructive, joyous unfoldment of good. It is the dispelling of the mist which would hide from view the grand facts of being. The uncovering of error shows the mist to be but an illusion, with no reality; it is indeed the unveiling of the ever-presence of Love, God.

Error claims that God is not wholly good, or that He is not All; that He does not love all of us, or that His love is not available to all alike; that He has forgotten some of His creation, or that it has been left incomplete in some respect; that His law does not operate in every instance, and that a false law of some kind is taking the place of Principle until some future time when God's law will be fulfilled. These claims are obvious and easily uncovered as false. But such arguments of error often would prevent one from seeing the nature of the error which subtly claims to occupy thought undisturbed, the pleasure of self-seeking pride, so-called righteous indignation, gain through dishonesty, sensualism, envy, jealousy, hatred, false appetite, criticism, and so forth, all appearing as real, good, attractive, useful, or necessary. All these traits are errors; therefore they do not exist in real being. Only God, good, exists.

The mistake needing to be uncovered, then, is the claim of these evils to reality, goodness, attractiveness, usefulness, or necessity. Once this claim is exposed as a lie, and dismissed, the false trait no longer has seeming power in individual human thought to obscure the truth. It has thus lost its ability to distract, confuse, or perplex thought, because even this ability is an illusion, and the illusion has been dispelled. Thought is now clear to perceive the reality, to experience God's presence, love, power, and law where to material sense the human need seemed to be before.

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