When the rich man addressed him as "Good Master," Jesus immediately said, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God" (Matt. 19:16, 17), thus directing thought away from the concept of good as personal and restricted to the oneness of good, its ever-presence, ever-availability, indivisibility, and inexhaustibility. This concept of good is substantiated in the Scriptural statement regarding creation (Gen. 1:31), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."
The understanding of these spiritual truths blesses every phase of daily living— human relationships, business, government, and church affairs—frees us from selfishness, and enables us to prove in our daily lives our unity with God, who is good. Supreme love for good will impel us to spiritualize thought that we may become aware of the allness of good, finding complete satisfaction and joy therein.
Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says of evil (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 103): "The destruction of the claims of mortal mind through Science, by which man can escape from sin and mortality, blesses the whole human family. As in the beginning, however, this liberation does not scientifically show itself in a knowledge of both good and evil, for the latter is unreal." She further makes plain in her Message to The Mother Church for 1901 (pp. 12, 13) that "evil is neither quality nor quantity: it is not intelligence, a person or a principle, a man or a woman, a place or a thing, and God never made it." To cast evil out of its falsely assumed place, one needs only to see it as nothing claiming to be something.
