Christian Science teaches that God is All-in-all. As the understanding of this fact enlightens individual consciousness, it acts as a law of Truth to heal both sin and disease. But to protect one's thinking from the false claims of evil which would creep in undetected, constant and persistent alertness is essential.
Christian Science teaches that disease is unreal because it is unknown to God. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 348), "Instead of tenaciously defending the supposed rights of disease, while complaining of the suffering disease brings, would it not be well to abandon the defence, especially when by so doing our own condition can be improved and that of other persons as well?" The supposed rights of disease—the belief in its necessity, the fear of its power, the pride in its presence, the contemplation of its inevitability—are surrendered only as the false belief that life and intelligence are dependent upon matter is destroyed through obedience to God's law.
The discussion of disease thrust upon those who listen to the radio or who watch television, the emphasis upon it in news reports and in the advertisements of material remedies, cannot be ignored. However, when this emphasis is reversed, and the spiritual concept of life and health is established in thought, such intrusions only tend to keep thought alert to the needs of the hour. The acceptance of sin, sickness, and death as inevitable, in accordance with popular belief, holds mankind in bondage to material laws, while an opposite view brings freedom. The student of Christian Science is equipped through an understanding of divine metaphysics to use divine law, the truth of God's allness, to maintain freedom from the aggressive suggestions of mortal mind.
