While struggling with a physical or moral ailment, or some other inharmonious condition, we may find encouragement in the Psalmist's plea to God, "Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).
Christian Science brings to light the healing action of divine forgiveness. It explains that sin is a false sense of being, a belief that matter rather than Mind is the source of thought and that man is material. Physical ailments and other human inharmonies appear as part of the illusion of sin in this false, sinful sense.
In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy gives the Tenets of Christian Science, one of which reads (p. 497): "We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts." When the false sense is exposed for the nothingness it is, both the sin and the suffering caused by it vanish.
