The fact that through the ages mankind have sought to learn the nature of God and of man indicates the universal urge to find the essence of good. All who believe in God at all will acknowledge that God is good. Everyone wants good, although owing to limited self-interest, all do not agree about the universal, irreversible nature of good. Christian Science teaches that man is the reflection of a wholly good God, divine Mind, whose creation is endowed with eternal, illimitable good.
In Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy asks (p. 470), "How can good lapse into evil, when God, the Mind of man, never sins?" Tempted with evil suggestions of any sort, the Christian Scientist, obedient to his understanding that God, good, is man's real and only Mind, promptly rejects them. If a feeling of discomfort, sickness, or pain tries to intrude itself into his thought, it should be recognized and instantly dismissed as a lying suggestion that man has a mind and body unlike and apart from his creator. Thus the Scientist would deal with the error correctly as erroneous belief, not as a condition of matter.
"Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed," writes Mrs. Eddy on page 411 of Science and Health. The wise Christian Scientist firmly refuses to ruminate on error, to entertain error's subtle impositions.
