HOW often the student of Christian Science is faced with the argument of material sense, which seems ever to be endeavoring to refute his declarations of truth! It suggests, Well, if what you say is true, that God, Spirit, is good, and good is infinite, how did matter, evil, sin, sickness, originate? It is as if mortal mind were arrogantly asserting: Well, at least here I am! What are you going to do about me? So-called mortal mind would seem to be persistently tempting us into a bypath of useless questioning and searching, thereby leading us away from the path of light and truth into a labyrinth of futile conjecture.
The alert student, however, being ever on guard against these wiles of error which would sidetrack him. is not disturbed by such an argument as the above, and meets it with instant dismissal. Why? Because through Christian Science he learns that matter and evil, being the suppositional opposite of God, who is infinite Life, Truth, Love, Spirit, can have no reality, since there can be no opposite to God.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 468):"There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." There is no life in matter, no truth in it; neither has it intelligence or substance.
