Freedom belongs to man. It is one of his inevitable possessions, because he is the likeness of God. Even in human experience, liberty is recognized as having a spiritual nature, impelling alert men to rise up with an unconquerable remonstrance against the efforts of tyrants to smother it.
Christian Science accepts the Scriptural teaching that Spirit, whom man reflects, is infinite. It reveals God as divine Principle, the source of all law, and man as His spiritual idea. Man moves freely as God directs. "Mind's infinite ideas," writes our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 514), "run and disport themselves. In humility they climb the heights of holiness."
Any thought of man as imprisoned or in bondage is consequently foreign to the teachings of Christian Science. It is not man who is limited, but the world's false belief about him. So long as man is erroneously believed to be confined within a material body, he will appear to be subject to its limitations—sickness, sin, deformity, or death. The true idea of man as wholly spiritual, reflecting all of God's qualities, is the Christ, Truth, which brings deliverance from these evils and the light which shows that man is truly free.
