338:12 XXIX. The word /Adam /is from the Hebrew /adamah/, signifying the /red color of the ground, dust, nothingness/. Divide the name Adam into two syllables, 338:15 and it reads, /a dam/, or obstruction. This suggests the thought of something fluid, of mortal mind in solution. It further suggests the thought of that 338:18 " darkness . . . upon the face of the deep," when mat- ter or dust was deemed the agent of Deity in creating man, - when matter, as that which is accursed, stood 338:21 opposed to Spirit. Here /a dam/ is not a mere play upon words; it stands for obstruction, error, even the sup- posed separation of man from God, and the obstacle 338:24 which the serpent, sin, would impose between man and his creator. The dissection and definition of words, aside from their metaphysical derivation, is not scien- 338:27 tific. Jehovah declared the ground was accursed; and from this ground, or matter, sprang Adam, notwith- standing God had blessed the earth "for man's sake." 338:30 From this it follows that Adam was not the ideal man for whom the earth was blessed. The ideal man was revealed in due time, and was known as Christ Jesus. Divine pardon 339:1 XXX. The destruction of sin is the divine method of pardon. Divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys 339:3 error, and Love destroys hate. Being de- stroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness. Does not God's pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy 339:6 and involve the final destruction of all sin? Evil not produced by God XXXI. Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it 339:9 good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God. A sinner can receive no encouragement from the fact that 339:12 Science demonstrates the unreality of evil, for the sinner would make a reality of sin, - would make that real which is unreal, and thus heap up "wrath against the 339:15 day of wrath." He is joining in a conspiracy against himself, - against his own awakening to the awful un- reality by which he has been deceived. Only those, who 339:18 repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand the unreality of evil. Basis of health and immortality