A Christian Science practitioner when asked the question, "What about human good; is it all untrue?" referred to Jesus' words, "There is none good but one, that is, God" (Matt. 19:17). Then she brought out that whatever is truly good in human consciousness and experience must emanate from God and have a divine source.
The human possessive sense of good claims that good originates in person; it therefore glorifies person instead of recognizing all good as the glory of God's expression of Himself. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, did not condemn true humanhood. Indeed she said (Unity of Good, p. 49), "The more I understand true humanhood, the more I see it to be sinless,—as ignorant of sin as is the perfect Maker."
For one student, Mrs. Eddy's definitions of the four rivers which are spoken of in the second chapter of Genesis indicated the progressive unfolding of true humanhood: "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads," named Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, and Euphrates.
