SPIRIT AND MATTER
Question—What is the difference between matter and Spirit?

ANSWER—One is substance and the other is form. They are the same thing. Spirit takes form and that form is what we call matter.

FATHERHOOD OF GOD
Question—Does Religious Science teach that nothing exists but Mind, and that God is the Only Mind? If so, then if God is all, He has no children. Does this not strip the universe of the doctrine of divine love and the Fatherhood and Motherhood of God?

ANSWER—Religious Science teaches that there is one universal, self-consciousness or Spirit, which we call God; that there is a universal reaction to that spiritual consciousness which is the law of mind in action, and that there is a universal manifestation, the result of the action of Spirit through law, which universal manifestation is called creation. To each individual this universal Spirit, which is the parent mind, is Father of all, and being personified through the individual, must, through his own nature be immediately accessible to him.

CAN GOD KNOW EVIL?
Question—You said in a radio talk that God did not know evil. I have always been told that God knew everything. How about it?

ANSWER—God can only know that which is God, and if evil is God, then God can know evil. If evil is not God then God cannot know evil. As hate disappears when love dominates (page 12), as the darkness has no power over the light, as even hell is cooled by the breath of Heaven, so the devil cannot fight God. When "the eye views the world as one vast plane and one boundless reach of sky," the lesser irregularities disappear, so our troubles flatten when we gain the higher perspective of reality. Let those who feel so inclined argue over the problem of evil, but see to it that in your own mind you are the offspring of good alone and you will have solved the riddle of the universe.

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