Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (pp. 367, 368): "The senses would say that whatever saves from sin, must know sin. Truth replies that God is too pure to behold iniquity; and by virtue of His ignorance of that which is not, He knoweth that which is, and abideth in Himself, the only Life, Truth, and Love,— and is reflected by a universe in His own image and likeness."
The world today seems to be in need of redemption from a large and varied assortment of sins, grievances, and difficulties. As Christian Scientists, we know that the senses—the physical senses—admit that there is sin and also hold that any redemptive agent must know sin. We also know the scientific truth based on a statement from the Bible that God is too pure to behold iniquity. This supplies us with the inevitable conclusion that God, the only creator, who made all that was made and called it good, did not create sin.
How does it happen, then, that sin seems to the material senses to be existent? Of course one could answer that there are no material senses, and this is substantiated by Mrs. Eddy on page 488 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and on page 5 of "Rudimental Divine Science." Such an answer does not, however, clear up the matter or dispel the illusion for everyone. Let us see how this can be accomplished.
