God is wholly good; His allness brooks no opposite. Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Christian Science reveals God, not as the author of sin, sickness, and death, but as divine Principle, Supreme Being, Mind, exempt from all evil." Science and Health, p. 127.
Because spiritual man is created in God's likeness, wholly good, he reflects God's exemption from sin and suffering. Although human beings seem far from exempt from error, we can prove that immunity from physical and moral discord is possible to us now. Christ Jesus showed us how to claim the divine right of the children of God; he redeemed sinners; without material aid, he healed the sick and raised the dead. Through practicing precepts the Saviour practiced, we can follow his example in healing works. Thus, step by step, we can claim our ultimate exemption from all evil.
Science and Health translates into demonstrable law the unqualified freedom that belongs to God and His man. Referring to the mortal man who is working out in practice what the ideal man always includes, this textbook urges, "Let us remember that the eternal law of right, though it can never annul the law which makes sin its own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but those due for wrong-doing." Ibid., p. 385.
