A Student of Christian Science was confronted with the question, "Could Paul, if he were here, with the great financial demands of today, speak so confidently about 'always having all sufficiency in all things'?" (II Cor. 9:8.)
Such a question stems from a false belief that sufficiency is a stipulated amount of some particular material thing. However, an earnest study of the Bible and the teachings of Christian Science reveals that the material is of secondary importance and is not true substance.
Mary Baker Eddy in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," states (p. 286): "God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance and Life. Material and temporal thoughts are human, involving error, and since God, Spirit, is the only cause, they lack a divine cause. The temporal and material are not then creations of Spirit. They are but counterfeits of the spiritual and eternal."
