One marvels at the skill of the architects and builders who are able to restore famous landmarks, ships, buildings, and even entire settlements that have been neglected or that were destroyed many years ago. These experts, however, consider it more or less a routine assignment once they obtain the plans or design of the original. With this in hand it is only a question of the experts' faithfully following the specifications as drafted, in order to make the restoration.
The Way-shower, Christ Jesus, understood that Spirit, God, is "the great architect," the creator of the universe, including perfect man. He realized that God creates man in His own image and likeness and that man reflects Truth, substance, joy, health, and freedom for eternity. Jesus' discernment of the design of his Father was so great that he was able to declare (Matt. 5:48), "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Knowing the perfection of God and man, Jesus could restore sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, health to the sick, and life to the dead.
Christian Science recognizes and acknowledges God's perfect creation and utilizes the same method of healing which Jesus practiced. This Science teaches that we must look away from the material evidence—discord, sin, and sickness—and go back to the original plan of man and the universe as set forth in the first chapter of Genesis.
