It is quite impossible to separate law and obedience. The instant law is conceived, that same instant obedience is demanded; for without obedience law would cease to be law; it would be without power or activity. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 184) Mrs. Eddy makes the following comprehensive statement: "Truth, Life, and Love are the only legitimate and eternal demands on man, and they are spiritual lawgivers, enforcing obedience through divine statutes."
In perfect accord with this, Isaiah says, "The Lord is our lawgiver;" and in reality there can be none other. All true law must be the will of God. Whatsoever God wills must eternally be, and whatsoever exists in God, divine Mind, is always and forever under the law of divine Mind. Indeed, nothing that really exists can exist other than as the expression of God's law. All real existence is under divine law, controlled by divine law, according to divine law. It would be quite impossible to separate it from that law; then it must ever exist in obedience to that law.
Now Christian Science shows us that this is at once man's necessity and man's safety. Could man ever be separated from God's law, he would immediately be separated from God Himself, which would mean man's annihilation. Paradoxical as it may appear, this same necessity of obedience to God's law is the way out of all that claims another law and that believes in an existence contrary or opposed to God's law, since all such claims are false and the only freedom from them is their complete destruction.
