A PERSON falsely accused of wrongdoing would be likely to deny the accusation at once. And if the accusation were made in a court of law, the accused would deny the charge by a plea of not guilty. Without a denial the false accusation could appear to be true and could be accepted as true until its falsity was discovered.
Many people in the world today accept as true the belief that man is a corporeal mortal and that the five material senses testify truly to his condition. But Mrs. Eddy discovered the testimony of the five material senses to be false. Through deep study of the Bible, she discovered rules for demonstrating the falsity of the claims of the five senses and brought to light spiritual healing as it was practiced by Christ Jesus and later for nearly three centuries by his followers.
In Science and Health, the textbook of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 242), "Denial of the claims of matter is a great step towards the joys of Spirit, towards human freedom and the final triumph over the body." The denial of the claims of matter is based on the true nature of man and his relationship to God as set forth in the first chapter of the Bible (Gen. 1:26, 27): "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
