In Christian Science, error is a term used to describe anything and everything that is the opposite of God.
God is Truth the omnipresence of spiritual goodness. Error is suffering, pain, sin, disease, and death.
Experience proves that the best way to get rid of error, is to focus on Truth. “Know the truth, and the truth shall set you free,” (John 8:32) Jesus Christ taught.
When praying for relief, be wise to not build up the error, but to let Truth tear it down; to totally dissolve it until you have no sense of it.
Mary Baker Eddy is quoted as saying in her early years of discovering Christian Science, “I want to tell you the blessed fact of discovery in this hour: it is to make nothing of error…When we start from the basis of Being error must fade as we grow” (Mary Baker Eddy: The years of trial, p. 165).
Error is not something to think about and war with as if it’s a reality. It’s a false belief to dismiss; with Truth!
Just, what I needed today! Very, very helpful, thank you so much, Evan
Evan, the topic you have brought up today is highly welcome!!!
THE PROPER HANDLING OF ERROR https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/2o8li84g0cm?s=w
Thank you for sharing this wonderful article! So helpful,
Thank you very much, Harmonie, for that very helpful article. One can sitt still and listen to the wonderful truth!
Thank you so much, Evan for today’s inspiring spiritual views which are very very needed! I ponder them a lot!
This is one of my favourite topics -and this article, Harmony, is brilliant. Thank you for posting
it. A wonderful article about nothing!!
Another article that supports this thought:
Living in the Third Degree
By James Spencer
From the January 2013 issue of The Christian Science Journal
Not sure how to pasre the link.
Thank you Allan.. Here’s a link…
https://journal.christianscience.com/shared/view/dj1r690m8a?s=copylink
Evan, an excellent post today. Thank you!
Hi Allan. Thank you for the article, and thank you, RobertH, for the link. Allan, to share a link, click on the “share” icon (the right arrow at the top), and then click on the words “copy link.” The link will be copied at that point, so when you return to SpiritView to write your comment, you may at that point “paste” the link that you copied.
“Replacing beliefs with truths” by Geoffrey J. Barratt. From the October 15, 1979 issue of The Christian Science Sentinel:
https://sentinel.christianscience.com/shared/view/1lsqqlyvgs8?s=copylink
Thank you Evan for your wise counsel and that of Mrs. Eddy to make nothing of error.
When I think of “getting rid of error” I have to remind myself it is not a real thing or entity we’re trying to vanquish, but only a BELIEF of error. that may at times seem real to mortal sense. A belief or thought can be changed more easily than something solid and real. We’re taught to turn things into thoughts and objects of sense into ideas of Soul.
Error is always nothing, when we seem to believe it as well as when we see through it.
Thank you, Evan, for this wonderful reminder of the blankness of error, depicted in the empty space where a picture supporting your lesson usually is. Brilliant!
Thank you Evan! And thank you Harmony for the article!
Thanks, Cheryl for the showing how to link an article
Thank you Evan for this wise message and all for comments, thoughts
and wonderful articles. I love where Mrs. Eddy writes, “When we start
from the basis of Being, error must fade as we grow” (from the years of
trial). It is humbling to know that even with all of her insight and knowledge.
she, too, had trials to work on and figure out (humanly speaking). Sometimes
we think we are alone in trying to grasp the meaning of things, and it is
refreshing to know that we are Not alone, but everyone has “trials” (proofs
of God’s care) to work on and triumph over… all part of our “growing” process.
Truth corrects error; error is not permanent. What appears to be error is correctable.
I like where you say “be wise to not build up the error, but let Truth tear it down”. When we are mulling over it and wondering what it is, then we are building it up into something it never was. Truth pricks the lie like popping a balloon and dissolves it into its native nothingness.
Exactly! The belief of error is like a balloon . Sure, it may look huge. But go grab a needle or a pin or a knife, or some other sharp object. One prick, and BANG! All that is left are pieces of rubber or mylar.
What came to my mind was what Jesus spoke :”GET THEE HENCE” followed by MBE statement “Dismiss it (DISMISS) it with an abiding conviction that it is illegfitimate”
Thank you Evan and all who posted articles from HSH-online. So very helpful.