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July 18, 2016 at 10:51 am #1905

Florence

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To answer the post’s question: can we overcome evil? is No we cannot BUT THE TRUTH can! Hence the emphasis on our understanding the TRUTH of Spiritual REALITY and the falsity or UNREALITY of matter. To Mind Nothing is incurable nor is sin unforgivable because when Truth is understood as stated above these are uncovered as UNREAL anyway!

This from the Lesson is helpful:
SH 450 The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good. Sickness to him is no less a temptation than is sin, and he heals them both by understanding God’s power over them. The Christian Scientist knows that they are errors of belief, which Truth can and will destroy.