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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.

  	    "Dear Mrs. Eddy: — In the October Journal I read
12	the following: 'But the real man, who was created in the
  	image of God, does not commit sin.' What then does sin?  
  	What commits theft?  Or who does murder?  For instance,
15	the man is held responsible for the crime; for I went once
  	to a place where a man was said to be 'hanged for mur-
  	der' — and certainly I saw him, or his effigy, dangling
18	at the end of a rope.  This 'man' was held responsible
  	for the 'sin.'" 

  	    What sins? 

21	    According to the Word, man is the image and likeness
  	of God. Does God's essential likeness sin, or dangle at
  	the end of a rope? If not, what does? A culprit, a sinner,
24	 — anything but a man! Then, what is a sinner? A
  	mortal; but man is immortal. 
  	    Again:  mortals are the embodiments (or bodies, if
27	you please) of error, not of Truth; of sickness, sin, and
  	death. Naming these His embodiment, can neither make
  	them so nor overthrow the logic that man is God's like-
30	ness. Mortals seem very material; man in the likeness
 
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 1	of Spirit is spiritual. Holding the right idea of man in my
  	mind, I can improve my own, and other people's individ-
 3	uality, health, and morals; whereas, the opposite image
  	of man, a sinner, kept constantly in mind, can no more
  	improve health or morals, than holding in thought t...he
 6	form of a boa-constrictor can aid an artist in painting a
  	landscape. 
  	    Man is seen only in the true likeness of his Maker. 
 9	Believing a lie veils the truth from our vision; even as
  	in mathematics, in summing up positive and negative
  	quantities, the negative quantity offsets an equal positive
12	quantity, making the aggregate positive, or true quantity,
  	by that much, less available. 
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