Sometimes it may seem hard to find spiritually scientific answers to a question about life, being, metaphysics. The difficulty may be that we've not asked quite the right question. Perhaps the question itself needs examination. Its assumptions may be mistaken, and in these cases it's futile to expect a direct, right, logical, satisfying, spiritual answer.
The disciples once asked Christ Jesus of a sufferer, "Who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" John 9:2 Because Christ Jesus was so cognizant of man as God's expression, he could not have answered by choosing either of the disciples' two options. The answer could only come by going outside the question. His response, in effect, indicated that man is not a sinner—the assumption implicit in the question—but evidences the intelligence and goodness of God. (His answer, far from glossing over the claims of sin, points to the basis—sin's nothingness—on which each of us must overcome sin.)
There are many questions, relating to metaphysics, which sometimes perplex people. These may even hinder the asker's progress in Christian Science should he fail to find satisfying answers. For example, we may be putting to ourselves or friends some probing, detailed questions about life after death and be expecting detailed, totally logical, and purely spiritual answers. Yet we cannot find completely watertight metaphysical answers to questions that presuppose a condition that is not absolutely true.
