Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, reminds us of a great need when she writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 428), "The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal." Healing in Christian Science, therefore, is not primarily the changing of a physically or materially inharmonious condition to a normal or healthy one, but the replacing of a false material sense of creation and man with the spiritual and true sense.
Christian Science repudiates the erroneous assumption or belief that man is a mortal, a sick, sinning, diseased, impoverished, or unhappy human being, and shows that man, made in God's likeness, is now, ever has been, and always will be the perfect child of God, the idea of divine Mind, the expression of infinite Life, Truth, and Love.
All human discords and difficulties are the result of wrong thinking and are based upon the erroneous conclusion that man is material and not spiritual, that he is the offspring of mortals instead of the child of God. Problems which seem physical or material are false beliefs, which yield to the power of Christ, the true idea of God and man. False beliefs are corrected as it is seen that God is perfect and that the only real man is now His perfect expression.
