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God denies disease. Disease denies God. "Both are not, cannot be, true." - Mary Baker Eddy

Subject: Are Sin, Disease, and Death Real? How can one even ask this question? What does it mean? Herein lies the genius of Mary Baker Eddy (or, as she would have preferred, the goodness of our God.) Who would think to see so clearly that disease and God actually deny the other? When sick you wonder where God is. You feel abandoned. Is God even there? This is "the plea of mortal mind." Yet we read of God's goodness and love. Which is true? "Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit. Blot out the images of mortal thought and its beliefs in sickness and sin. Then, when thou art delivered to the judgment of Truth, Christ, the judge will say, 'Thou art whole!'"* Mary Baker Eddy obviously sided with God. In fact, she stated, "What is termed disease does not exist."* She reasoned that if God is "All-in-all" and God is only good, there is no place for something opposed to God called disease. She found that denying "the plea of mortal mind," you actually bring health, and you see that you are whole, the way God created you. Fred Rock

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