Some individuals today are seriously and sincerely questioning centuries-old moral standards. One argument is that these standards have been supported by fear and that now the reasons for fear no longer exist. Another argument is that personal relations should be determined solely by one's personal feelings and judgment, that society should not make standards for others nor stand in judgment.
As long as mankind have existed, they have expressed a measure of good—good in thought, conduct, and nature. This good has had its source in God. Since God is good, good is the manifestation and proof of His nature and existence. When we can classify what we are thinking and doing as conforming to our highest sense of good, we can then know we are proving our unity with God. We thus demonstrate that we truly have a spiritual origin.
Our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, declares, "Know, then, that you possess sovereign power to think and act rightly, and that nothing can dispossess you of this heritage and trespass on Love." Pulpit and Press, p. 3; To be free of that which is harmful and destructive in human experience, we must know ourselves to be spiritual and prove it in the demonstration of the power of good. Every healing effected by Christ Jesus, and every spiritual healing since his time, has been realized because man has been seen as the recipient of God's indestructible good.
