To the Christian Scientist, good is natural, evil unnatural. This is because he knows that an infinitely good God could have created only that which is good, expressive of His own being.
To human thought there appear both good and evil. The Christian Scientist, in knowing that evil is unreal, not God-created, sees it as seemingly present only in the human concept of man, never in the divine idea, man, the image and likeness of God. He knows, furthermore, that as human thought is purified, freed from its evil beliefs, the true spiritual consciousness appears—sinless, diseaseless, deathless.
What is the God-bestowed spiritual consciousness? This question is answered when Christ Jesus' position and mission are understood. The way of his appearing was through the human yielding to the divine, not the divine planning for the human redemption. This is because the perfect God knows nothing but perfection and is therefore wholly unaware of a sinning sense, a sinning consciousness, or a sinful mortal that needs to be saved. God caused and created all, and it was made good. Therefore He did not need to create a plan for saving that which does not need to be saved —perfect man, made in His own image.
