Although the Scriptures give ample assurance of the completeness and perfection of God's creation, one of the most persistent and pernicious arguments of the carnal mind would seem to be that of incompleteness and insufficiency. It is not strange that mortals, separated as they seem to be from God, who knows only His own creation, should feel a lack of sufficiency; yet it is surprising how many forms and fancies the claim of incompleteness can assume. In the first place, life is conceived of materially as a line beginning with birth, fluctuating in accordance with mortal triumphs and defeats, broken off by death, and then resumed (or not, according to the belief of the individual) in some future, indeterminate existence. Thus the lie of incompleteness, prefaced by interminable "ifs" and "buts," would try to insinuate itself into every phase of human existence.
Now, it will be clearly seen that any dissatisfaction with this apparent state of incompleteness must arise from an innate desire for a complete and perfect existence. If incompleteness were man's natural status, men would not be restive under the outcome of such a condition. But there is an instinctive and persistent resistance to this false and unsatisfactory claim, and to its seeming ability to break in upon life, joy, and accomplishment. One's inner self cries out for the continuity and completeness which can be apprehended only through conscious unity with God.
As in all spiritual progress we arrive at the true idea by reversing the material argument or testimony, so we may begin the refutation of the lie of incompleteness, which after all is only part of the Adam-dream of life in matter, with the truth of man's completeness in Spirit. By dwelling upon the infinitude of God and acknowledging man as His image and likeness, we may logically claim the completeness and continuity not only of man, but also of God's universe. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on page 282 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "The real Life, or Mind, and its opposite, the so-called material life and mind, are figured by two geometrical symbols, a circle or sphere and a straight line. The circle represents the infinite without beginning or end; the straight line represents the finite, which has both beginning and end. The sphere represents good, the self-existent and eternal individuality or Mind; the straight line represents evil, a belief in a self-made and temporary material existence. Eternal Mind and temporary material existence never unite in figure or in fact."
