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408 Answer. — As I have before stated, all reality is in God and His idea, harmonious and eternal. That which he created was good, and “He made all that was made.” The only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because He is Truth, and they are not of Him. We learn of Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is erroneous; and error is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity, though seeming to be real, and identical with Truth. If error were true, its truth would be error, and through this we should lose the standard of Truth. I find that the Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God, is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are to be classified as effects of error. Christ came to save sinners. The God-principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. He is everywhere, and nothing else is present or has power. Christ is Truth, and this great Truth comes to heal sickness and sin, — first through the idea in Science, and then through a person. Jesus is the name of the man who presented, more than all other men, this idea of God, for he came healing the sick and the sinful, and destroying the power of death. Jesus is the man, and Christ is the Divine Principle of the man.

In an age of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced the Principle and practice of Christianity, affording proof of its Truth and Love. But to reach his example, — and test its unerring Science according to his rule, by healing sickness, sin, and death, — a better understanding of God is required, as being the Divine Principle rather than the person of the man Jesus.