In the third chapter of Ecclesiastes is this A unequivocal statement (verses 14 and 15): "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him. That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past."
It must necessarily follow from these facts that, as Christian Science teaches, the real creation is spiritual, for man is the actual image of God, Spirit. Belief in a material existence precludes any such changelessness as is declared in the above Scriptural passage. Change is the concomitant of matter, whatever its form. God being forever true, matter or mortality has never been true.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 188), "Man is as perfect now, and henceforth, and forever, as when the stars first sang together, and creation joined in the grand chorus of harmonious being." In this clear view is seen the constancy of good, which has never deviated from the original likeness of God, as declared in the first chapter of Genesis.
