"WHO shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" asks Paul (Rom. 8:35). And as quickly and as confidently as he replied, the Christian Scientist can also answer, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Note that the answer reads "more than conquerors." To conquer implies an opponent, an opposing force which is to be overcome. But Christian Science departs from the commonly accepted premise of two forces in the world, good and evil, and declares as its basis of reasoning and proof the allness of God and the nothingness of evil. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 469),"We lose the high signification of omnipotence, when after admitting that God, or good, is omnipresent and has all power, we still believe there is another power, named evil."
Since God is All, there can be nothing outside of His infinitude. All must be His manifestation. His expression. Hence, all must be Godlike. Does it not follow then that anything unlike Him cannot be real? The realization of this scientific fact leaves nothing to be overcome.
This allness of God, good, and nothingness of evil must be acknowledged, for it is the basis of demonstration in Christian Science. When considering error, let us remember that it is just nothing—without form, character, element, or even symbol or symptom. It is nonintelligent. It only seems; it never is. Nothing one says about it can make it real. With finality our Leader declares (ibid., p. 545), "Truth has but one reply to all error,—to sin, sickness, and death: 'Dust [nothingness] thou art, and unto dust [nothingness] shalt thou return.' "
