Do we believe that when God saw everything He had made, He found it very good? Do we really believe that He created everything that was made—everything that exists? The world seems to be full of evidences to the contrary. And yet mankind is gradually approaching some understanding of the universe as the expression of divine Mind. Christian Science teaches that this Mind is God, the God by whose Word all things were made, leaving nothing to be created otherwise.
A Christian Scientist was once startled by a friend's impatient remark, "You are always pretending that everything is all right." She was aroused to earnest examination of her own basic reasons for the declarations of spiritual truths and the denials of material claims that are employed by Christian Scientists. She found sufficient reason in Biblical teachings regarding creation; and as she studied, her thought continued to be enriched.
When, as the Psalmist said (Ps. 2:1), "the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing," when evil seems to be emphasizing itself, why does Christian Science stand fast in the recognition that good is all there is? "The heathen rage"—fear, sin, sickness, poverty, seem to be rampant—but Christian Science, in accord with the Bible, reasons that good alone exists. The people are imagining a vain thing, for when God saw His entire creation, He found it very good.
