A.G.D. asks:  "Did Jesus Christ, when he said to the paralytic, 'Take up thy bed and walk,' begin as the Scientists now do, by arguing mentally that there was no such thing as paralysis; that it was only a belief of blood stagnation, etc.?"

No.  He knew the spiritual man's divine perfectness and realized that that was the only man there was.  He knew that the man before him, death-threatened by a law of mortality, was not the real man, God's thought.  He who had dwelt in full understanding of that Truth from the beginning did not have to repeat the rules which the life problem proposed involved, to bring out the perfect result instantly.  Have patience, A. G. D., and these little children, solving life problems so patiently for you all, will grow in grace and the knowledge of the Principle, till they, too, shall be able to rely not upon argument for each solution, but the "Spirit that beareth witness" shall enable them to present many instantly perfect, as were the master Metaphysician's demonstrations.

A.D. asks:  "If mind cure is founded on Truth, why did not Jesus teach it to his disciples, and to all his hearers?"

That He did teach his disciples to heal by Mind alone the Scriptures record.  How else did Peter and James heal the lame man at the temple gate?  He knew better than to teach it to his hearers in those childish days of creeds and ceremonies, so he told them mighty truths in parables, — object lessons adapted to their feeble growth.  But even  simple parables were pearls before swine; for his hearers turned upon him and nailed him to a cross as meet recompense for such instruction.

A. I. asks:  "Does Christian Science teach that there is no forgiveness of sin?

Jesus declared sin a lie from the beginning, and destroyed it with Truth.  To set one free from the bondage of sin (the lie) into the liberty of holiness, (Truth), where there is no memory of sin, and no desire for sin, is true remission, and the scientists' doctrine of forgiveness.

Mary Baker Eddy
(CS Journal, Vol. 2 No. 16, Mar 1885)