To comprehend the great statement that man cannot fall, one must know something of the allness of God, who is Spirit and good, and recognize man as His reflection. Man created by God coexists eternally with his Maker. He is incorporeal and perfect—maintained in the likeness of that Maker. In this ordered state of spiritual being, man never falls from his innately sinless state. This scientific law of harmony, which governs the real, has preeminence over the unreal, mortal sense of things. Mrs. Eddy explains, "Immortal Mind, governing all, must be acknowledged as supreme in the physical realm, so-called, as well as in the spiritual."Science and Health, p. 427.
This metaphysical precept can be proved in many ways. To see the real universe and man as the expression of God, reflecting intelligence and governed by divine law, brings about healing. It establishes a sense of safety and well-being in place of the precarious sense that one is a creature of chance or circumstance.
If we entertain a belief that we have fallen physically—that as vulnerable mortals we have suffered accident—we can find release in maintaining our spiritual status as ideas in divine Mind. We can know that the Mind which governs its own spiritual ideas also heals, "in the physical realm, so-called," adversity or mishaps in any form. Sustained by this clear, scientifically Christian logic, we can erase from thought any lingering false pictures of having fallen, and so annul the results that claim to follow in pain and suffering.
