The right understanding of God and man as revealed in Christian Science and confirmed by proofs of healing establishes spiritual conviction. The earnest student of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy soon becomes impressed by the finality with which the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science writes. His yielding to spiritual facts is an expression of understanding instead of believing, accepting instead of contending, of promptly obeying instead of delaying. Recognizing divine guidance, he demonstrates the power and presence of God. In the consciousness of real manhood, he realizes the unreality of sin, sickness, and death.
Spiritual conviction is imparted by divine Mind to all who understand the truth of God and man and the nothingness of error. When the seeker for ever-present spiritual light becomes definitely convinced that he has this light, there is established with him an anchorage derived from an infallible starting point, which is divine Principle, God. The Bible says of God (Deut. 32:4), "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
In reply to his opponents to whom spiritual truth was unknown, Christ Jesus said (John 8:46, 47): "Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God." This rebuke was directed against mortals and the error by which they are deceived, against beliefs which did not influence Jesus but which, if accepted, tend to mesmerize and turn attention from spiritual reality to sin, sickness, death, and other discords.
