Through Christian Science we learn that God is supreme good, immutable good, total good. In "Rudimental Divine Science," Mrs. Eddy declares (p. 2), "Science defines the individuality of God as supreme good, Life, Truth, Love." What is this individuality which is good? What relationship does supreme good have to man? If God is supreme good, what and where is evil? These and similar questions are answered in Christian Science.
If one could conceive of existence without matter or mortal mind, as the author of the first chapter of Genesis envisioned in the beginning, he would admit that there is no evil existent. Obviously, there is no evil in God. God is All and is good only. But God, without infinite expression, would be a nonentity.
The creation of ideas is pictured in Genesis as taking place on successive days. Actually ideas were already existent in Principle, God, but for want of better means of expression, they are represented as being made or created. Since there is no matter in God, Spirit, good, these ideas are totally spiritual, incorporeal. But they are real and possessed of identity, albeit without physical form, weight, or size. Ideas of good reflect good alone. In them is no possibility of evil, for evil and good cannot commune.
