I’ve often heard sayings such as, “Hate the sin, not the sinner.” My study of Christian Science has given me a spiritual perspective on this concept, as I’ve learned that sin or any evil, sickness, or wrong isn’t part of a person. Through prayer, we can separate the wrong from the person by understanding that it was never part of anything God, divine Love, created.
Christ Jesus demonstrated the ability to correct wrong by denying that it was any part of God’s creation, man. For example, we read in the Gospel of Mark: “And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him” (1:23–26).
Jesus did not attribute the problem to that individual; he understood it to be entirely separate from the man.
