ON page 470 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy says, "Man is the expression of God's being." This profound statement is one on which we can never ponder too much. If man is expressing God's being, he can manifest nothing unlike God; for God, who is wholly good, can find expression only in that which is also wholly good. God, the perfect Mind, can have only perfect thoughts, and these thoughts are ever perfectly expressed or made manifest. There cannot enter into God's thoughts something which He does not know anything about; the impossibility of such a thing is quickly apparent.
God, then, is the only creator. There is therefore no source from which evil, sin, disease, and death can come; God being infinite, that fact precludes the possibility of any other existence or power. In the light of this understanding, which has come to us through Christian Science, let us look at the problems that present themselves to us in the form of sin, disease, or suffering of any kind. Mrs. Eddy frequently refers to mortal suffering as "error," and Webster defines the word "error" in part as "belief in what is untrue." Sometimes this belief seems to be deeply rooted and tenacious; but because it is error, it can be corrected with true understanding. No doubt of this should be entertained for a moment. The truth about every so-called problem is already established, and can be demonstrated.
The temptation often comes to us that this or that problem will be solved when we gain a more complete understanding, which will be sometime in the vague future. Should we not rather hasten to lay hold now on that deeper understanding? The problem that is before us is one to be solved now, and will serve as the stepping-stone to further understanding. What does it matter if the problem claims to be difficult? What if the surrounding situation seems unpropitious? These are beliefs in something untrue. God is, was, and always will be; and man expresses Him now. Man has never been anything but the expression of God, and he never can be anything else. Our real selves are manifesting God's thoughts now, and these do not need healing or altering: in reality they are perfect now. Since nothing unlike God can enter His being, we can rest in the sweet assurance that nothing unlike Him can enter His manifestation. The Apostle Paul expressed it thus: "In him we live, and move, and have our being." We are not in reality going there; our spiritual selves are there already.
