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532 self-evidently wrong. Disputing these points with the Pharisees, and arguing for the Science of Creation, he says: “Do men gather grapes of thorns?” Paul asks: “What communion hath light with darkness, or what concord hath Christ with Belial?”

The divine origin of Jesus gave him more than human power to expound the facts of creation, and

demonstrate the one Mind, which made and governs man and the universe. The Science of creation, so conspicuous in the birth of Jesus, inspired his wisest and least-understood sayings, and was the basis of his marvellous demonstrations. Jesus was the offspring of Spirit, and his existence shows that Spirit creates neither a wicked nor a mortal man, lapsing into sin, sickness, and death.

Isaiah said, “The Lord makes peace, and creates evil;” but he referred to divine law, as stirring up evil

to its utmost, — when bringing it to the surface, and reducing it to nothingness, its only proper state. The muddy river-bed must be stirred, in order to be purified. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms of evil are aggravated, we may think, in our ignorance, that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God's law only uncovers sin and its effects, that He may annihilate all sense of sin.

Science renders “unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and unto God the things that are God's.” It says to

the human sense of sin, sickness, and death, “God never made you, and you are a false sense which hath no knowledge of God.” The Hebrew allegory, representing error as assuming a divine character, is to teach mortals never to believe a lie.