"God is indivisible." This short statement by Mrs. Eddy on page 336 of Science and Health is a significant one for the student of Christian Science. God being infinite good, good is therefore indivisible; Life and Mind, synonyms of God, are indivisible; joy, abundance, and intelligence, qualities of God, are likewise indivisible. Man, the inseparable effect of his indivisible cause, God, is the expression of the allness, infinity, and indivisibility of God, good.
This truth of the indivisibility of good is indeed a contrast to the notion held frequently by mankind. Believing life and mind to be divisible, mortals lay claim to only a bit of life, a measure of intelligence, a fragment of good. They believe that good is divided, more or less unevenly, among the multitudes of persons comprising the human race and that each person is in competition with others to gain a share of that good, which at the best is temporary, inadequate, and expendable.
The prodigal son in Jesus' parable, which is told in the fifteenth chapter of Luke, must have had at first a limited sense of good. The parable begins: "A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living."
