The basic truth of being is the unity of God and man. This spiritual unity ensures man's inseparability from good in its unlimited manifestations. The basic evil, which we term mortal mind, from which proceed humanity's mistaken views and opinions, always argues separation and disruption between God and man. Indeed, back of every inharmony of thought or body is the belief of disunity with good. Because error is a belief of separation from good, from truth, it can never sustain itself or its false claims when faced with divine, irrefutable facts.
Our great Master, Christ Jesus, declared, "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder" (Mark 10:9). This points to Jesus' clear recognition that man can never be deprived of or separated from the good that God has bestowed upon him. The good which man possesses by reflection cannot be set aside or annulled. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 475 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," defines man in part as follows: "He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas." Man, the true expression of God's goodness, includes everything that is necessary to express completeness. Logically, then, man includes and eternally enjoys the true idea of health, supply, substance, relationship, happiness, achievement, progress, courage, humility, faithfulness, and dependability; he reflects all the qualities which express and manifest limitless Mind, God.
The hypothetical opposite of Truth, called error, claims, conversely, that it can unite what God hath not joined together. Specifically, it claims that it can unite man with pain, disease, fear, ignorance, sin, lack, and strife. The dictionary defines error, in part, as "a deviation from that which is right or correct." Therefore, since every claim of error or mortal mind is erroneous, it is apparent that any difficulty is a deviation from that which is right or correct, rather than a physical or material condition. A misstatement can be corrected by knowing the truth or the facts of the case. That is why Christ Jesus could say so emphatically (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
