Evil should be regarded as unnatural

[MaryBeth]

“God is natural good, and is represented only by the idea of goodness; while evil should be regarded as unnatural, because it is opposed to the nature of Spirit, God.” It is well to examine how much you regard good as being natural and evil as being unnatural in your life. For instance, do you believe that it is “natural” for a two-year old to be naughty going along with the psychological belief of the “terrible twos’ rather than knowing that every child is “obedient to the Mind that made them” (S&H)? Do believe that it is “natural” to catch the flu doing the so-called “flu-season” or “natural” to have allergies during the so-called “allergy” season rather than rejecting it as unnatural and a spurious lie because opposed to the goodness of God’s creation? Do accept unemployment being “natural” and unavoidable because of certain economic conditions? Or do you know God has right employment for every one of His children and anything less is unnatural? Mrs. Eddy states in “Miscellaneous Writings” on page 109, “Examine yourselves, and see what, and how much, sin claims of you; and how much this claim you admit as valid, or comply with.” There were so many wrong beliefs I claimed for myself until I began to question their validity and learned to reject those lies and to replace them with the Truth about God’s good creation for in Truth He is All, and there is nothing else!

[Fairlie]

Thanks to Plainfield, I am beginning to understand that there is nothing going on but good from God. Nothing negative is true. And that to try to heal by looking to human circumstances or seeming causes, what happened or didn’t happen, is hopeless. If God is all, anything else is a lie and the Adam dream. In this regard I have found Plainfield’s gift of Rev. Mason’s “Hints on Healing” very helpful to this understanding.

[JPalmer]

Thank you for this post!

I sincerely appreciate how Christian Science is practical, right down to how there are these checks and balances that we can apply to our thoughts and actions. Knowing “good as being natural and evil as being unnatural” is an excellent one to keep close, as is what you mentioned in your testimony from the Wednesday meeting this week, which is, does this thought or action take me closer to God, or further away.

For some time I have been asking myself, when faced with a choice, is it more loving to do this, or less. I am sure that this had its seed in something I learned at this church, because I never did this before. Now I will be able to additionally refine this by asking myself “Does this thought or action show the naturalness of good?” and “Does this bring me closer to God?”

At this point I was reminded of the “What Would Jesus Do?” bumper stickers that were popular at one time. It is easy to see that when you don’t have any understanding of Christ Jesus’ teachings or the Science he lived, by asking that question you are left to answer with the highest sense of human good you possess.

This makes me so grateful for Christian Science, as it is giving me the proper basis to both ask and answer these questions so that I can start living rightly. What a wonderful blessing! Thank you!

[Gary]

This is why we are taught to emphasize and remember the good and discard the evil as quickly as possible. The good is the only reality. It is also the only power. That is why it is the only contagion. I have noticed that when someone is aggressively emphasizing the good, it brings out the good in those around him. Whether in our homes, our schools, or work places, this influence is a powerful one that blesses everyone that comes into your presence. And why not? It is God manifest, and God is All. It is Truth, Life, and Love which are “a law of annihilation,” as Mrs. Eddy writes in S&H, “to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.”

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