The prophet Jeremiah once asked the people of Judah at a time of persistent wrongdoing on their part (13:23), "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Christian Science explains that no mortal characteristic should ever be looked on as so ingrained that it cannot be eradicated, however deep-seated it may seem to be, and takes this stand on the authority of the Bible statement that God created man in His own image and likeness—a pattern which can never be altered.
This religion makes it clear that matter is a subjective state of mortal thought and that all human experience is the externalization of human thought. This means that we can perpetuate and repeat the appearance and behavior of others only so far as we perpetuate and repeat the type of thinking which underlies them.
