Vital to the education of all are what are often referred to as the three R's: reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic; and vital to our spiritual progress are another three R's: remorse, repentance, and regeneration.
As God is All and the only Being, whatever exists in reality must be identifiable with Him. God is ever conscious of the good He has created. Good is all He knows and all He has created. Therefore good is infinite because God is infinite. Evil has no place, no reality, in God and His goodness. God has never been confronted by any evil; He has never seen, felt, heard, or known it. Nor in truth have you or I as spiritual man, God's reflection, His likeness.
However, as long as we believe we are human beings having human experiences, we can be deceived into believing in a lapse or loss of good, which is all there is to evil—a belief that some good of God is absent. In Retrospection and Introspection Mrs. Eddy asks, "Why do Christian Scientists say God and His idea are the only realities, and then insist on the need of healing sickness and sin?" She answers, "Because Christian Science heals sin as it heals sickness, by establishing the recognition that God is All, and there is none beside Him,―that all is good, and there is in reality no evil, neither sickness nor sin." And further along in the same paragraph she writes, "When we deny the authority of sin, we begin to sap it; for this denunciation must precede its destruction." Ret., p. 63.
