CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that God is infinite— All-in-all; that He is Mind or Spirit; that He is good; that he is the source, cause, or creator of all that really exists. It teaches also that God is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent; or, in other words, that He includes within Himself all presence, all knowledge, all power.
But what do we find men thinking? Certainly we do not find the majority of them acknowledging God as the one and only power. Rather do we see them believing in many powers — the power of matter and material law, the power of evil, the power of a human so-called mind — indeed of innumerable minds; and often with scarcely a trace of any understanding of the power of God.
Since God, Spirit, is infinite; since He is the sole creator, what must be the nature of His creation? It must consist of ideas — spiritual ideas. There is therefore no reality in matter; no reality in so-called material law. Further, since God is infinite good, there is no reality in evil, whatever form it may seem to human sense to take. And since God is Mind, the one and only Mind, there in reality can be no finite mind. Then, because matter, evil, and finite mind or minds are unreal, they possess neither real presence nor real power. Such is the conclusion to be drawn from the great spiritual truth that God is the infinitely good Mind or Spirit. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 192 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "In Science, you can have no power opposed to God." Then she adds that "the physical senses must give up their false testimony," thus exposing the erroneous nature of the physical or material senses.
