"Good" and "Evil"

[Soulforged]

You can make choices, the difficulty comes from confounding factors that influence your, most likely, procratinating attitude. This is the main problem in doing homework. Everyone knows it needs to be done, but it's not always done.

Ha! I appear to be in that list too.

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.

All of this is incorrect. The man purely material, the same spirit surges from this materiality, it can even supase the mere materiallity and elevate the man, but the man is not spiritual. Saying that the matter is not real is a way to confuse terms that's inadmisable, real is what can be percived and analized or observated in it's perceptible form to get conclusions about it and describe it. The matter is all, the spirit wich comes second only interprets the matter, that's what the human free spirit does, even with his own matter. This frase shines with absurdity, classic of the never ending and uncorrectible idealists.

Hence, all that is real is Good. Evil is unreal; it doesn't exist.

You got to that conclussion from that paragraph? How did you do that?
No Good or Evil exists, it's just an illusion, another idea. Anyway they don't exist separated by themselves, they do exist as subjective elements of the human mind. But the conclussions of this Mr. are really curious.

[Togakure]

Real is that which can be analized??!! Ahem ... oh dear ... .

Seriously: what I presented is a key set of ideas upon which the Christian Science faith is based (not to be confused with Scientology). I didn't tie my personal conclusion to the Scientific Statement of Being because I wanted to see if anyone would make the connection. Considering what you wrote, it would seem that your beliefs are diametrically opposed to what the Christian Scientists choose to believe. And that's ok--no one knows; we choose to believe. I choose to believe that I don't "know" much of anything; it leaves me receptive to new ideas.

Imagine a mirror, where "Evil" is represented by grime that tarnishes a reflected image. The image in the mirror represents the material, the temporal, the unreal. That which creates the image in the mirror is Spiritual, immortal, and real--of God, and therefore, "Good." Does the grime, which impedes/distorts the image, affect the source of the image? No. We tend to view the material world as that which is real; some choose to believe that it is merely a reflection of what is truly real. I find this to be an interesting point of view.