IN studying the Scriptures and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, students of Christian Science find it important to differentiate between the absolute facts of being, which are unchanging and eternal, and the relative statements, which apply only to the human state we seem to be living in.
No process is making God's creation, man and the universe, perfect and complete. That is the way God made it, and He made it "very good" (Gen. 1:31). We find in the Bible many who caught glimpses of this absolute state of being. The Preacher wrote (Eccl. 3:14), "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it."
Then again we find the Preacher speaking from the relative, or human, point of view, "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions" (7:29). In other words, the writer of Ecclesiastes indicated that mankind believed they could do something to God's creation. But this is as much an impossibility as it would be to change a mathematical fact: to make two and two four and a half instead of four.
