The need to differentiate between the real and the unreal enters in some measure into every activity of human experience. A high moral sense supports us in making right decisions; but the consistently accurate acceptance of that which is true and the rejection of that which is illusory require spiritual perception beyond the scope of ordinary human reasoning or variable sense testimony. Christian Science declares that whatever is real is of God, or Truth, and whatever is unreal is error, a lie, is outside the realm of Spirit, and is therefore without power.
Christian Science is emphatic in its refusal to weigh Truth and error as equals in a balanced scale. To do so would deny the allness of God, accept evil as reality, and ascribe power to that which is impotent. To deny the omnipotence of God or to allow for a mixture of good and evil would contradict Scripture and confound mankind's efforts to demonstrate promised salvation from sin, sickness, and death.
The Science of Christianity makes plain the distinction between that which is of God, and therefore an expression of His wisdom and being, and that which is evil, or the counterfeit of all that is based upon divine Principle. This Science replaces darkness with light, overcomes hatred with love, supplants fear with confidence.
