Human Experience Would have us believe with certainty in both good and evil, Spirit and matter, health and disease. Appearances tell us that such opposites are simply a part of life and that we have to accept the bad with the good. Yet spiritual healing in Christian Science is based on an understanding of the absolute supremacy of God, Spirit, who is wholly good, including not a vestige of evil or a knowledge of it. It is based on the recognition that our true selfhood, as God's likeness, is wholly spiritual and good; that the so-called material selfhood as—which seems so solid to all of us—is not who we actually are. Sometimes this truth may seem difficult to understand and to utilize because the human mentality is so entrenched in the belief that good and evil are equally valid and even God-bestowed.
Where in God's allness and goodness, could a contrary power exist?
It's reassuring, however, in prayer, to gain a clear perception of God's wholly good creation, as described in Genesis, chapter one. Evil isn't mentioned until the Bible's second chapter, which depicts creation much differently, and as seen through a mist. This mist of materialism hides the pure goodness created by God. St. Paul put it this way: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." I Cor. 13:12.
