Nonexistence is a strong term. It is a radical term. When it is used in regard to evil, it is a revolutionary term. In studying Christian Science, one finds that the nonexistence of evil is not a philosophy of escapism but is a deeply metaphysical fact which needs to be comprehended and proved. In Science this proof is a moral demand.
Human reason based upon what appears to the physical senses cannot grasp the fact that evil is nonexistent. The evidence of matter, with its accompaniments of sickness, sin, and death, is too strong for merely human reason to deny. But spiritualized human consciousness, the consciousness which is seeking the truth of all things and finding it in the revelation of God's existence and government of all, is beginning to fathom the implications of acknowledging God's infinitude. Reasoning from the basis of Spirit's allness, one can come to only one right conclusion—that evil is nothing, is not present, is nonexistent.
Christ Jesus had the most perfectly spiritualized consciousness of anyone who has ever appeared on this planet. And he not only taught the nonexistence of the devil, or evil, but worked out this fact. He said of the devil (John 8:44): "He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
