God is good and upright. He is perfect Mind, which forms the universe, including man. His work is flawless and true. God, Spirit, makes man in His own image, to express His wisdom, grace, and harmony. Man, the image of God, reflects the perfection of God.
God is All-in-all. There is nothing, then, to undermine His creation or twist man into another form. Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy says, "The great truth in the Science of being, that the real man was, is, and ever shall be perfect, is incontrovertible; for if man is the image, reflection, of God, he is neither inverted nor subverted, but upright and Godlike."Science and Health, p. 200.
Material sense, the false belief that mind is in matter, cannot know the true form of man in divine Science. Material sense perceives only error. It is blindness—an obscured, distorted sense of God's creation. The forms delineated by material sense, by the so-called carnal, mortal mind, are counterfeits of the spiritual forms of divine Mind. They are the illusive forms of error, not the substantial forms of Truth. Science and Health states, "Mortal thought transmits its own images, and forms its offspring after human illusions."Ibid., p. 259.
