SO often it seems easier to accept imperfection as being closer to the norm, and perfection as the more elusive or abnormal state of things. Yet this really shouldn't be the case, since the Holy Bible makes clear that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."Gen. 1:31. All those who worship one infinite God, good, should be able to agree that His law ensures the eternality of His perfect universe, including man. Just think of it: the normal and natural state of God's creation is one of perfection! It logically follows, then, that every claim of imperfection or abnormality is in fact a counterfeit or perversion of the original and therefore can be considered illegitimate—nothing more nor less than a lie about that which is good and true.
Under the guise of human wisdom, however, mankind is made literally to bow down to socalled physical laws and their limitations "from cradle to grave." In great part this totally false educational process, promoting belief in physical laws and causation, remains unchallenged by institutions of learning, government, and medicine, to say nothing of the marketplace. The insidious proliferation of false belief goes on to a large extent unrecognized and unacknowledged. In fact, it's frequently hidden under the veil of what is termed "progress" or "being more informed." So, in today's world of instant communication, side by side with information we need to have, there are graphic and extensive audible as well as visual images of disease and deterioration constantly broadcast to a worldwide audience.
Late in the nineteenth century, the Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, discerned the dangerous role the media of that day were playing in disseminating pictures of disease and disaster to mankind in general. In her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, she writes in this regard: "The press unwittingly sends forth many sorrows and diseases among the human family. It does this by giving names to diseases and by printing long descriptions which mirror images of disease distinctly in thought. A new name for an ailment affects people like a Parisian name for a novel garment. Every one hastens to get it. A minutely described disease costs many a man his earthly days of comfort. What a price for human knowledge!"Science and Health, pp. 196-197.
