What has happened when a pregnancy has miscarried? Can an idea of God be terminated or lost? Certainly not. Then if God governs everything, is this God's will? Is it "nature's way" of correcting a mistake? Both these questions stem from a belief that there is life in matter.
A Christian Scientist, working from the standpoint that every idea is eternal and perfect, knows that every one of God's children is complete as spiritual idea. The material concept of miscarriage never in fact touches a spiritual idea of God. Mrs. Eddy writes: "Immortal man was and is God's image or idea, even the infinite expression of infinite Mind, and immortal man is coexistent and coeternal with that Mind. He has been forever in the eternal Mind, God; but infinite Mind can never be in man, but is reflected by man." She finishes the paragraph with, "Immortal man is not and never was material, but always spiritual and eternal."Science and Health, p. 336; Therefore, every individual reflection or child of God dwells completely and permanently in God's love —no matter what the material picture would suggest.
Man can know only what God knows. God knows that all His creation is complete and perfect. The Bible tells us: "God created man in his own image .... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. . . . Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."Gen. 1:27, 31; 2:1; God created man in His own image, that is, spiritually. God is not material or physical—there is nothing substantial or eternal in anything physical. God is omnipotent, eternal Love, Truth, Life, Soul, Principle, Mind, Spirit. Since God is Spirit, man, made in God's own likeness, is spiritual and reflects all the qualities and attributes of God. The Bible concludes this account by saying that God's creation was finished—not finished in the sense of over and done with but rather complete, fulfilled, the purpose realized.
