The Science of Christianity is to be enormously valued. It's the way to a fundamental spiritual understanding of being. It imparts a fresh view of existence—beyond what the personal senses take in—which brings about Christian healing. It greatly enriches Christianity. As different as day from night is the scientific way of reasoning from ordinary modes of thinking.
What, then, is scientific reasoning? It starts from an entirely spiritual premise, because God, the creator of the universe, is Spirit, limitless Mind. It shuts the door on assumptions about God having a material creation. This would be a misleading factor in resolving questions of true being. Here is an instance from Science and Health of the right tone: "If Mind is within and without all things, then all is Mind; and this definition is scientific." Science and Health, p. 257 This refreshing insight flows from the onliness of God. It is scientific in premise and conclusion.
It might be argued that such a radical outlook is not only delusion but potentially brutal. Why? Because it might seem to ignore people's problems. Emphatically, the scientific approach is based on God's concrete almightiness and love. It doesn't numbly dismiss mankind's wrestlings with trouble, conflict, illness, as irrelevant or trivial. Nor is it escapist. It is not indifferent to suffering on the grounds that such a concern would be unscientific. On the contrary, it hands us the tool for resolving problems and healing disease, spiritually and nonmaterially, as Christ Jesus did—and as nothing else can.
