Basic to the teaching and practice of Christian Science is the fact that "God is not part, but the whole." Mary Baker Eddy makes this statement in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 102). God is all-inclusive, the universal cause, the only Life, intelligence, and substance, the All of being. His omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience preclude any other existence, might, or science.
Since God is the All of being, the questions may occur: "How and where does man fit into creation and being?" and, "Is there a place for man's individuality?" Christian Science answers that man does have a definite, even an imperative, place in being, for he is in and of God; and God would be incomplete without man.
Paul voiced this verity of existence thus (Acts 17:28): "In him we live, and move, and have our being." And Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 340): "Divine Love is infinite. Therefore all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His love."
