In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy makes this thought-provoking statement: "In all mortal forms of thought, dust is dignified as the natural status of men and things, and modes of material motion are honored with the name of laws." Science and Health, p. 118; And later in the same book the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science says, "Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God."pp. 380, 381;
The Apostle Paul had much to say of the liberty that comes through understanding the law of God. He declared, "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death."Rom. 8:2; Christian Science shows that the law of sin and death has its source in the belief of life and intelligence in matter and is manifested in human experience as laws of such adverse conditions as accident, injury, disease, so-called natural calamities, limitation, lack.
To accept the general belief that life is dependent upon the quality or quantity of blood in the body and the action of the heart or other physical organs, that sight and hearing are physical properties, that the power of locomotion is in muscles, that all bodily functions are governed by the brain and nervous system—all this is to come under the so-called laws of mortal belief in the reality and power of matter. To overcome them, the mistaken belief that man is material and mortal should be denied and replaced with the truth that man, whom God created, is spiritual and immortal, and is governed by God's law of Life, eternal and harmonious.
