We are told in the Bible that a lawyer asked Jesus a question, "tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus answered: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment." And he went further: 'And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Matt. 22:35-40.
Jesus' answer covered the most important point in Christian teaching—love for God and man. His reply was given not only to the lawyer but to all who are tempted to believe that there are two gods, two real powers—Spirit and matter —each in control. He understood that man is under God's law and jurisdiction alone.
Christian Science follows the letter and spirit of Jesus' words, teaching that there is only one intelligence governing all, and that God, Spirit, alone is to be worshiped. As this law of divine Love is accepted, as we take it to heart and rely on it more and more, we see through the false, dualistic belief that both Spirit and matter have power; we see through the two-way, right and wrong possibilities of the mortal, carnal mind in its suppositional warfare against the allness of good.
