It is often asked, If there is a God and He is good, why does He permit the destructive forces of the earth to exist?
In Christian Science we learn that the only right answer to this query is that He does not.
Misfortunes, which seem so real and frightening to the material senses, are not actually real. And they do not seem real to spiritual sense, which cognizes God as infinite Spirit, or divine good, and the earth as a compound idea of God, wholly spiritual, immutably harmonious, and indestructible. The Psalmist must have glimpsed something of this divine realism when he confidently sang, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein."Ps. 24: 1
