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

6	    Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have
  	been healed by Christian Science? 

  	    The Scriptures plainly declare the allness and oneness
 9	of God to be the premises of Truth, and that God is
  	good: in Him dwelleth no evil. Christian Science au-
  	thorizes the logical conclusion drawn from the Scriptures,
12	that there is in reality none besides the eternal, infinite
  	God, good. Evil is temporal:  it is the illusion of time
  	and mortality. 
15	    This being true, sin has no power; and fear, its coeval,
  	is without divine authority. Science sanctions only what
  	is supported by the unerring Principle of being. Sin can
18	do nothing:  all cause and effect are in God. Fear is a
  	belief of sensation in matter:  this belief is neither main-
  	tained by Science nor supported by facts, and exists only
21	as fable. Your answer is, that neither fear nor sin can
  	bring on disease or bring back disease, since there is in
  	reality no disease. 
24	    Bear in mind, however, that human consciousness does
  	not test sin and the fact of its nothingness, by believing
  	that sin is pardoned without repentance and reforma-
27	tion. Sin punishes itself, because it cannot go unpun-
  	ished either here or hereafter. Nothing is more fatal than
  	to indulge a sinning sense or consciousness for even one
30	moment. Knowing this, obey Christ's Sermon on the
  	Mount, even if you suffer for it in the first instance, —... 
 
  Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers                      
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 1	are misjudged and maligned; in the second, you will
  	reign with him. 
 3	    I never knew a person who knowingly indulged evil,
  	to be grateful; to understand me, or himself. He must
  	first see himself and the hallucination of sin; then he
 6	must repent, and love good in order to understand God. 
  	The sinner and the sin are the twain that are one flesh, — 
         but which God hath not joined together.
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