In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 259), "The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,—perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration." As Christian Scientists we accept the spiritual truth of this statement, and we strive to think and act from this standpoint. We know that to demonstrate perfection in any degree, we must admit perfection to be a provable fact.
The method employed to prove the perfection of being is spiritually scientific. It is not making over an ungodlike mortal. It is not making a sick man well or a sinful man pure. It is destroying misconceptions about man: refuting the lie that man is sick or sinful and that he grows old and dies. More than this, it is spiritually seeing and proving man to be what he really is, the perfect likeness of perfect God. Thus freedom from human woes is gained.
One dictionary definition of the word "perfect" reads as follows: "Having all the properties naturally belonging to it; complete; sound; flawless." The scientific truth of everyone's real being is that it is complete, sound, flawless, possessing all the qualities naturally belonging to it as the perfect image of perfect Mind. God is pure, holy, perfect; therefore man, God's exact likeness, is pure, holy, perfect.
