ACKNOWLEDGMENT and acceptance of man's perfection and wholeness as the basis of thought and action are warranty of harmony, success, and health in human experience. But whatever is untrue about God and His representative, man, must be mentally retracted — in other words, unsaid — -lest it adulterate consciousness. Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, emphatically states in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 204, 205), "The error, which says that Soul is in body, Mind is in matter, and good is in evil, must unsay it and cease from such utterances."
"Unsay it"! What a stirring and thought-provoking demand! But unsay what? Anything which does not express the truth about God and His perfect creation.
The first chapter in Genesis sets forth God's complete and perfect universe. God's perfection and completeness are reflected by man, His image and likeness. These facts of creation are indicated elsewhere in the Bible, and particularly in the works of Christ Jesus, upon which the teaching of Christian Science is based. Then to say or imply that man, God's reflection, is sick, sorrowful, sinful, lacking, or inharmonious is to say what is false, for it imputes mistakes to God's creation. It charges the Almighty with contributing inharmony to that which He makes. It either accuses Him of inadequately maintaining His universe or discredits Him by dividing His kingdom with an assumed evil creative power.
