SINCERE students of Christian Science are increasingly grateful for the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures which is daily unfolded through the study of their textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Numerous Biblical passages, which formerly seemed to have no direct application to their daily experiences, now stand out as vitally important, and are seen to contain messages which have a direct bearing upon the solution of their problems, of whatever nature these may appear to be.
Take for example the command in Leviticus which reads, "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God." Pondering this passage in the light of Christian Science, we find that the command is to refrain from setting up false images or beliefs in our consciousness to bow down to, thus attributing to error, evil, the presence, power, and intelligence which belong to God, good, alone.
What are the "standing image" and "image of stone" which we are explicitly forbidden to erect? May not these terms imply, among other evils, the beliefs in long-standing and stubborn errors which we are prone to entertain and cling to? Is not the belief in chronic sin or chronic sickness a "standing image" we have reared in thought concerning ourselves or others? Until we cease to bow down to this image in our thinking, until we blot it out of our consciousness, we can have little success in overcoming the so-called chronic ills of others. God, good, being everywhere, it follows that neither a chronic nor an acute error is present anywhere.
