In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy appears this profound statement (pp. 109, 110): "The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience,—Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science,—contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual." Upon close study of the words "omnipotence," "omnipresence," and "omniscience," one finds that they include all there is to be known or that can be known about God and His spiritual creation.
The first word in this triad, "omnipotence," is defined by a dictionary as "unlimited and universal power; a divine attribute." Through the teaching and revelation of Christian Science the infinite meaning of omnipotence is unfolded. To be omnipotent is to be unlimited, without bounds or restrictions. Omnipotence is never associated with corporeality, for the belief in corporeality is confined within form and limitation. Hence, one must look for its expression in the spiritual realm, and thus come face to face with Spirit, Mind, or God, who alone is unlimited. God creates and evolves all ideas, and has unlimited control over each of these ideas, for they cannot be separated from the Mind which formed them, and they are forever obedient to their creator. Omnipotence includes goodness, for only that which is absolutely good is real, eternal, and all-powerful; hence evil, its opposite, has neither reality nor existence, neither power nor influence. In the spiritual universe, eternal reality, there can be nothing but God, the divine Ego, and His manifestation— God expressing Himself, that is, manifesting His nature and perfection in ideas. This expression or manifestation is His creation.
Because God is omnipotent there is no power in, or expressed by, anything unlike God; therefore there is no power in evil, sin, sickness, or death. These do not derive power from God, for He is good. In proportion as this scientific fact is understood and realized, evil loses its seeming power in human consciousness. The realization of the omnipotence of God brings about liberation from pain, sorrow, fear, and mortality; it is the realization of the authority which the forever Father has vested in His son, and of which Christ Jesus fully availed himself, for he knew that his understanding of the true source of power laid open to him the vast resources of Spirit. He said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise." In the Sermon on the Mount he assured his followers that the meek should inherit the earth. Christ Jesus fully demonstrated this meekness; he proved that the power with which he worked was not his own, but came from God, and was therefore limitless. Upon this power he drew unhesitatingly, and it was with the full recognition of the omnipotence of God and of man's oneness with Him that near the close of his earthly career he uttered these joyous words: "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth."
