Disorder of any type is the objectification of mental error, and a wise metaphysician continually cultivates his or her ability to discern accurately the error that seems to obtain in human consciousness. We might say that this ability is part of what Christ Jesus described as being "wise as serpents." Matt. 10:16; Mrs. Eddy leaves no doubt in her writings that a knowledge of error's deceptions is important. She writes in one instance, "Unless one's eyes are opened to the modes of mental malpractice, working so subtly that we mistake its suggestions for the impulses of our own thought, the victim will allow himself to drift in the wrong direction without knowing it." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 213;
In the book of John is an account of Jesus and his disciples encountering a man blind from birth. Indicating unwittingly their unhealed submission to a prevalent theological belief, the disciples asked, "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus rebuked their reaction with, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." John 9:2, 3; Then he healed the man.
Jesus' superior approach stemmed naturally from his understanding of ultimate reality—that God's man never has been and never will be disabled or sinful, but forever manifests God's perfect handiwork. This understanding cut through the materially mental picture and released the man from the collusive and illegitimate bonds of scholastic theology and so-called physical law.
