God does not know evil

[Gary]

“The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.” Psalms.

I am so grateful to Mrs. Eddy for giving us the explanation of these Biblical statements. It would be easy to take this statement as one of a battle between good and evil, and to simply say the good eventually wins that battle. But it leaves the question, “Why is there still evil in the world?” This could be discouraging, were it not for the metaphysics discovered by Mrs. Eddy and contained in her writings.

In S&H, she writes, “Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.” This is the “face of the Lord” to everything unlike God. In Unity of Good, Mrs. Eddy explains clearly that God does not know evil. And, since God is all, evil has no legitimate source of existence. She writes, “God is not the so-called ego of evil; for evil, as a supposition, is the father of itself, — of the material world, the flesh, and the devil. From this falsehood arise the self-destroying elements of this world, its unkind forces, its tempests, lightnings, earthquakes, poisons, rabid beasts, fatal reptiles, and mortals.”

We view life incorrectly when we accept it as being outside the control of God, subject to good and evil. When we recognize that evil has no legitimate existence, we will cease attaching it to persons, we will gain our dominion over it, and have no further remembrance of it. God does not know evil!

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