Jesus’ utter certainty of spiritual reality and God’s boundless, present goodness did not make him less feeling or compassionate in responding to sorrows of the human condition.  He did not ignore the evil put in his path.  On the contrary, his life and example defined a deeper and much more radically selfless kind of love:  a love that heals, and that many have recognized as reflecting the nature of God. Those who follow Christian Science teachings strive to continue Christ Jesus’ healing purpose in his response to humanity and his eradicating evil.

“One of the most pervasive misconceptions about Christian Science is the assumption that, because it insists on God’s boundless, present goodness and love–and the illusory nature of all that’s contrary to this divine reality–its teachings represents little more than a form of sunny, superficial optimism in its view of human condition.  But this is no more true of the actual perspective of Christian Science than it is of New Testament Christianity, as the two letters published in the link below bring out.  Both of these letters–one written in response to a newspaper commentary and the other in response to a Christian blog post–reflect the profound spiritual realism expressed by the Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, Mary Baker Eddy.”

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