Deep within the human heart stirs the need to be assured of a Supreme Being, a universal cause, and no amount of skepticism, sophistry, or defiance can quench this yearning. Moreover, the problems of daily life call urgently for answers which only infinite power, beyond human ability, can supply.
Mrs. Eddy based the religion she discovered and founded, Christian Science, on the premise that infinite power belongs to God, the actuating Principle of all reality. In stating the truth she discovered, Mrs. Eddy appeals to the seeker's faith in God, but she also offers help to anyone who, lacking faith, wonders if God exists. She teaches that God's actuality can be understood through reason and verified by proofs or tests in daily life.
When Voltaire wrote, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him," he was not necessarily being flippant or irreverent. If there is one thing of which the average individual feels certain, it is his own existence. He can say without reservation, "I exist." If he examines this fact carefully, the clear thinker notices that it involves a related proposition: his existence is embraced in consciousness. Examining this still further, he reasons that conscious existence presupposes the fact of intelligent causation. By such reasoning, he sees that his own existence indicates the existence of God as Mind. He can appreciate in some measure Mrs. Eddy's statement, "The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and absolute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own existence." Science and Health, p. 177;
