When I was in college and then later in graduate school, I very much enjoyed taking logic courses. I loved the simplicity and clarity of simple truths, such as the logic that you cannot have both “A” and “not A” at the same time. I remember my professor asking, “How can you both have a chair and not have a chair?”
At about the same time I was studying logic, a friend shared with me Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. As I read, I was struck by the eminent logic about the nature of God, and found myself asking, If God is all-powerful and all good, can an opposing power, such as evil, exist at the same time? And, if God, good, is “omnipresent” and “omnipotent,” can evil exist at all? I didn’t realize it at the time, but what I was beginning to grasp was the divine logic that underlies what Jesus taught and practiced, what Mrs. Eddy revealed to the world as Christian Science. For me, Mrs. Eddy addressed my questions in Science and Health: “The addition of two sums in mathematics must always bring the same result. So is it with logic. If both the major and the minor propositions of a syllogism are correct, the conclusion, if properly drawn, cannot be false. So in Christian Science there are no discords nor contradictions, because its logic is as harmonious as the reasoning of an accurately stated syllogism or of a properly computed sum in arithmetic” (pp. 128–129).
We can rebuke the twisted logic that may appear to justify and support illness and disease.
