Students of Christian Science can eliminate fears and forebodings from their thinking and their experience when they understand that God, omnipotent good, governs the universe, including man. Christian Science teaches that God creates and knows only good, as the Bible indicates in the first chapter of Genesis. Therefore His reflection, man, knows only good. When we understand that the man of God's creating can experience nothing but good, we can have no reason to fear the future, and we can have no misgivings, no forebodings regarding any of our activities. God's abundant, never-ending good is always at hand, ready to bless, purify, protect, and guide. Nothing can overpower, limit, restrict, or reverse the good that God bestows.
Mankind has from the beginning of recorded history sought peace of mind, serenity of spirit, and healing of physical ills. Many evils appear to be rampant in the world today, and one may well ask how he can justify the statement that evil is unreal when the evidence of evil, war, disease, and tragedy confront him on every side.
Mrs. Eddy indicates an answer to this question in Science and Health when she says (p. 289), "The spiritual fact and the material belief of things are contradictions; but the spiritual is true, and therefore the material must be untrue." And on page 300 we find this statement: "Human logic is awry when it attempts to draw correct spiritual conclusions regarding life from matter. Finite sense has no true appreciation of infinite Principle, God, or of His infinite image or reflection, man. The mirage, which makes trees and cities seem to be where they are not, illustrates the illusion of material man, who cannot be the image of God."
