The true mission of Christian Science is to heal, to destroy fear, sin, and ignorance, through spiritual understanding of God. To realize is to make real; and to eliminate that which appears to be real, but is not because it is not of God's creating, is to prove its nothingness. Accordingly, to destroy fear is to make it nothing.
Job was beset with failures and sufferings which appeared to have reached an extremity. His seemingly unbearable circumstances were largely attributable to fear and to ignorance, or wrong thinking about God and man's relationship to Him.
Mary Baker Eddy, on pages 410 and 411 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says, "Christian scientific practice begins with Christ's keynote of harmony, 'Be not afraid!'" and cites Job's statement, "'The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me.'" And she makes the following positive statement: "The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Disease is an image of thought externalized. The mental state is called a material state. Whatever is cherished in mortal mind as the physical condition is imaged forth on the body."
