What is this unity of God and man referred to in the Bible? Christian Science answers that it is the essential oneness of God and man as cause and effect, which leaves man no option but to be all that God is expressing. This oneness is the starting point, not the goal, of students of this Science. It is the point from which the claims of a supposed alternate state called mortality are rejected----not as counter facts but as spurious suggestions that somewhere in infinity is a state that departs from what the eternal Mind, or God, is knowing.
Traditional theology postulates a past fall from perfection and a future return to this spiritual starting point through great effort. Christian Science teaches that man's starting point is his staying point because he has never had the ability or opportunity to fall. No evidence of the so-called material senses can mar one iota of man's wholeness and perfection as the idea of Mind, in whom man continually resides. The Psalmist declared, "Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort." Ps. 71:3;
Dwelling forever within the eternal Mind, man includes all that Mind is expressing. This is man's established state. This is man's being as God knows it and as we understand it when we reflect that Mind and accept the scientific unity of God and His idea as the basis of our life practice. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God's will must be universally done." Science and Health, p. 202;
