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QA 13 of 24. The subtitles for this question are listed below. 

1. Question. — Is there no sin?
2. Unrealities that seem real
3. Truth - Christ the ideal Truth
4. God - Jesus not God
5. Jesus not understood
6. Miracles rejected
7. Fulfilment - Divine fulfilment
8. Falsity - Truth destroys falsity

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  	Question. — Is there no sin?

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  	Question. — Is there no sin? 
24	Answer. — All reality is in God and His creation, har-
  	monious and eternal. That which He creates is good,
  	and He makes all that is made. Therefore	                                        Unrealities
27	the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is	                                        that seem real 
  	the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring
  	belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not
30	true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian
1	Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illu-
  	sion, possessing neither reality nor identity though seeming
3	to be real and identical. 
  	    The Science of Mind disposes of all evil. Truth, God,
  	is not the father of error. Sin, sickness, and death are
 6	to be classified as effects of error. Christ	                                      Christ the
  	came to destroy the belief of sin. The God-	                                      ideal Truth 
  	principle is omnipresent and omnipotent. God is every-
 9	where, and nothing apart from Him is present or has
  	power. Christ is the ideal Truth, that comes to heal
  	sickness and sin through Christian Science, and attributes
12	all power to God. Jesus is the name of the man who,
  	more than all other men, has presented Christ, the true
  	idea of God, healing the sic...k and the sinning and destroy-
15	ing the power of death. Jesus is the human man, and
  	Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the
  	Christ. 
18	    In an age of ecclesiastical despotism, Jesus introduced
  	the teaching and practice of Christianity, affording the
  	proof of Christianity's truth and love; but to	                                        Jesus not
21	reach his example and to test its unerring Sci-	                                God 
  	ence according to his rule, healing sickness, sin, and
  	death, a better understanding of God as divine Prin-
24	ciple, Love, rather than personality or the man Jesus, is
  	required. 
  	    Jesus established what he said by demonstration,
27	thus making his acts of higher importance than his
  	words. He proved what he taught. This	                                              Jesus not
  	is the Science of Christianity. Jesus proved	                                      understood 
30	the Principle, which heals the sick and casts out error,
  	to be divine. Few, however, except his students un-
  	derstood in the least his teachings and their glorious
 1	proofs, — namely, that Life, Truth, and Love (the Prin-
  	ciple of this unacknowledged Science) destroy all error,
 3	evil, disease, and death. 
  	    The reception accorded to Truth in the early Chris-
  	tian era is repeated to-day. Whoever introduces the
 6	Science of Christianity will be scoffed at and	                                 Miracles
  	scourged with worse cords than those which	                                 rejected 
  	cut the flesh. To the ignorant age in which it first
 9	appears, Science seems to be a mistake, — hence the
  	misinterpretation and consequent maltreatment which
  	it receives. Christian marvels (and marvel is the sim-
12	ple meaning of the Greek word rendered miracle in the
  	New Testament) will be misunderstood and misused
  	by many, until the glorious Principle of these marvels is
15	gained. 
  	    If sin, sickness, and death are as real as Life, Truth,
  	and Love, then they must all be from the same source;
18	God must be their author. Now Jesus came	                                       Divine
  	to destroy sin, sickness, and death; yet the	                                       fulfilment 
  	Scriptures aver, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." 
21	Is it possible, then, to believe that the evils which Jesus
  	lived to destroy are real or the offspring of the divine
  	will? 
24	    Despite the hallowing influence of Truth in the de-
  	struction of error, must error still be immortal? Truth
  	spares all that is true. If evil is real, Truth	                               Truth destroys
27	must make it so; but error, not Truth, is	                                       falsity 
  	the author of the unreal, and the unreal vanishes,
  	while all that is real is eternal. The apostle says that
30	the mission of Christ is to "destroy the works of the
  	devil." Truth destroys falsity and error, for light and
  	darkness cannot dwell together. Light extinguishes the
 1	darkness, and the Scripture declares that there is "no
  	night there." To Truth there is no error, — all is Truth. 
 3	To infinite Spirit there is no matter, — all is Spirit, divine
  	Principle and its idea. 
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