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Before I started studying Christian Science, I often questioned the supposed logic of the belief that God, who is good, can create or allow suffering. I couldn't accept the concept that God is a mystery or that suffering is part of His plan for us.

Up to now I have assimilated much information about the truth, thanks to my study of Science and Health. My life has been improved and transformed.

Sin and evil are never necessary. In contrast to the traditional theological view that humanity is descended from Adam, born with the taint of so-called original sin, Christian Science teaches that each of us is actually God's idea, not Adam's kin.

Power belongs to God alone. It does not belong to evil, not ever.

Do we have to consent to the theory that all the evils of the world are due to the sins of Adam and Eve, to their disobedience to God and the curse inflicted on them? No, we don't! If the Biblical allegory of Adam and Eve were a true account of creation, it would mean that all of us originated in dust, or matter, and we could not escape being in subjection to the so-called laws of the material world—sin, sickness, and ultimate death. Yet the Bible says, "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

If your human history and mine had been written down, how might they read? There would probably be a series of events that included some highs and some lows. We might find that certain opportunities were fulfilled but that others appeared foreclosed because of what had gone before.

Recently we visited a historic site in Wales, in the west of the British Isles, which was originally a Roman gold mine. We climbed a steep hill from where we could see the surrounding countryside and get a feel for the ancient use of the area.

My husband and I had been married for several years, and while we each had our maturing to do, it seemed we were growing together to a degree. So it came as a surprise when he told me point-blank that he didn't love me anymore, and that he was in love with a woman he had met at work.

After Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science in 1866, she worked over many years to clarify the spiritual rules of healing inherent in its theology. Along the way, her students were the recipients of her clearer views, and wrote many valuable accounts of what she taught them.

Don't you love to watch the sunrise and sunset? Think of the rotation of the earth, the revolution of the planets, the perfect order of the universe. We never doubt this sublime order will continue.