PERHAPS no question has been asked more often during the centuries than this one: "Where did evil come from?" The fact that the question continues to be asked indicates belief in the reality of evil.
Christian Science is making a great contribution to humanity by scientifically exposing evil's deceptive nature and showing how to bring its false claims to naught. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 207), "We must learn that evil is the awful deception and unreality of existence." As the truth of this statement is grasped, mankind will achieve their freedom from evil, from sin, disease, frustration, injustice, death. Every claim of evil is deception, and to try to find the origin of deception is to be deceived at the very outset.
Not only does Christian Science declare evil to be unreal, but it shows why this is so. It also teaches how to overcome evil's false claims with the truth that good alone is real, that infinite good exists without an opposite.
