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398 incapable of sinning, — as I certainly believe? Then how could God make man capable of sin?

Did God create man, who is called material, out of Himself, Spirit? Did evil proceed from good? Did God commit a fraud on humanity, and make man capable of sin, in order to condemn him for it? Would my critic call it wise and good, to create the primitive and then punish its derivative?

Can evil be derived from good? Impossible! Was there original self-creative sin? Then there must have been more than one Creator, more than one God. In common justice we must admit that God will not punish man for doing what He created him capable of doing, and knew, from the outset, that man would do. God is “too pure to behold iniquity.” You sustain Truth by condemning a lie.

Jesus said of personified evil, that it was “a lie, and the father of the lie.” Truth neither creates a lie nor the capacity to lie. If we would only relinquish the belief that God makes sickness, sin, and death, or that He makes man capable of suffering on account of this trio, we should begin to sap the foundations of error, and ensure its destruction; but if we dignify mortal mind with the creativeness and authority of Deity, how dare we attempt to destroy that which He hath made?

History shows that this arbitrary and unjust sense of Deity originated in what is termed mortal mind. As there really is no mortal mind, you see that this wrong notion about God originated in a false supposition, not in Immortal Mind, and is fading out; that it is a false claim, eventually disappearing, according to the teachings of the Apocalypse.