In human affairs we all have seen at times the salutary effect of getting tough in rejecting the imposition upon us of an unfair or evil burden. In seeking to be healed of an ailment through prayer, it is also often helpful to get tough.
We begin our reasoning in Christian Science with perfect God, eternal good, who is Life, Truth, and Love. He is One, and He is All. According to the Bible, man is in reality God's image and likeness.See Gen. 1:26,27. Paul put it in these words from a classic poet: "In him we live, and move, and have our being." Acts 17:28. God is Truth, the infinite and eternal, the perfect and good. Anything unlike Him, such as evil, mortality, sin, or disease, is a contradiction of reality, the opposite of Truth—error.
The belief that the real man lives in a material body subject to birth, aging, disease, and death is one of the errors that need to be corrected through prayer. Other false beliefs are that man has a mind of his own, subject to fear, ignorance, and sin; that he can be separated from God and thus face danger or torment.
