After hearing and reading the following two passages for years at the end of a Sunday service, I admit I don't clearly see a correlation between "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and the correlative Scripture of First John 3:1–3. Can you bring out the essence of their interaction?
Question.—What is the scientific statement of being?
Answer.—There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468
