Most people are familiar with Adam, Eve, and the apple. (A drawing of the story is even shown at the beginning of the popular television show, “Desperate Housewives.”) Its underlying theme has really impacted everyday life whether we feel it directly or not. So, “How do we get beyond the Adam and Eve model?”
In the second installment of “Thinking about women-the series,” Christian Science lecturer Evan Mehlenbacher, Christian Science practitioner Russel Fogg, and video producer Matt Lawrence join TMC Youth’s David Bates to figure out how we can move beyond a sin-based concept of ourselves and others.
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Part of moving beyond a sin based concept of ourselves and others involves not being surprised at the seeming resistance to accomplish this move. It is the carnal mind, or material mindedness, which would stop this progress. When I feel this resistance, these two ideas from Mary Baker Eddy’s writings are very helpful:
(This idea shows how when we deny sin we are striking a deadly blow to sin, rather than letting sin destroy our unity with our Love/God.)
“To admit that sin has any claim whatever, just or unjust, is to admit a dangerous fact. Hence the fact must be denied; for if sin’s claim be allowed in any degree, then sin destroys the at-one-ment, or oneness with God, - a unity which sin recognizes as its most potent and deadly enemy.” (M.B. Eddy’s Unity of Good, p. 54, lines 11 - 16 )
“The sinner has no refuge from sin, except in God, who is his salvation. We must, however, realize God’s presence, power, and love, in order to be saved from sin.” (Unity of Good, p. 2, lines 6 - 8 )