Either Jesus was born of a virgin or he was not. Either he rose from the tomb and walked among his disciples or he did not. But if he was and if he did—and this is what Christian Science teaches—it is becoming clearer and clearer that these facts rule out the theory that matter is real.
Christian Science reveals God, Spirit, as All, and it shows that matter is the opposite of Spirit, consequently not real and not substantial. To the extent that it expresses divine reality human history is an illustration of the truth of God and His creation. The drama of human life employs the things known to human consciousness— material things, personalities, circumstances —as characters or props. But the underlying message is always the omnipotence of Spirit and the powerlessness of matter, or evil.
We see the drama usually in terms of the suppositional conflict between reality and unreality, good and evil. The only possible purpose of the unreal, or evil, in the human drama is to show, in the language appreciable to human consciousness, that God, good, is All; there is no evil.
