Conviction can only follow understanding. Spiritual understanding of the allness of God and of man as His image and likeness, as revealed in Christian Science, convinces us of the truth of being. Lack of conviction means lack of understanding and of absolute faith.
Truth is God, and God is omnipresent and omnipotent, the only cause and creator, perfect and eternal. Man exists as the perfect effect of this perfect cause, pure, whole, and harmonious. The realization of the truth about God and man dispels the belief that man is material and imperfect. The perfection of God and man is the basis of Christian Science treatment, and from this basis we deny the false claims of mortal mind until they yield to the truth. When human thought is convinced, it accepts the truth, and healing follows naturally.
A Christian Science treatment is the acknowledgment of the allness and ever-presence of God, Truth; and the realization of this great truth unfolds to human consciousness that in God's spiritual universe there is no matter, no sin, sickness, or death, no patient to be healed. It is never a human personality called a practitioner or any special human quality or virtue which heals, but always the Christ, Truth.
