Do Divine Scientists believe in sin, sickness, and death?
Divine Scientists believe that sin is the result of ignorance of the Truth. The word sin, from its early Greek meaning in archery, merely meant a ‘missing of the mark.’; In other words, we sin or miss the mark when we fail to attain to our highest calling, which is the realization of our Christ nature. Sickness is the lack of full realization of what we are, i.e. spiritual beings. Doctors today are increasingly aware that many physical manifestations of illness are ‘psychosomatic’, or expressions of an inner attitude. Divine Scientists have found that when an individual is expressing on a high level of consciousness, and knows completely that God is omnipresent, then harmony with the one creative Power, God, results in perfection. For Divine Scientists, the appearance of death is only one of many experiences in the spiritual unfoldment and development of the soul. As stated earlier, in the paragraph on the attitude of biochemists and scientists to religion, nothing in life is wasted. A
