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 6	ORIGIN OF EVIL 

  	    The origin of evil is the problem of ages. It confronts
  	each generation anew. It confronts Christian Science. 
 9	The question is often asked, If God created only the
  	good, whence comes the evil? 
  	    To this question Christian Science replies:  Evil never
12	did exist as an entity. It is but a belief that there is an
  	opposite intelligence to God. This belief is a species of
  	idolatry, and is not more true or real than that an image
15	graven on wood or stone is God. 
  	    The mortal admission of the reality of evil perpetuates
  	faith in evil; and the Scriptures declare that "to whom
18	ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye
  	are." This leading, self-evident proposition of Christian
  	Science, that, good being real, its opposite is necessarily
21	unreal, needs to be grasped in all its divine requirements.