Growing numbers of people are beginning to recognize that man is more than the material sciences make him out to be—that our true nature is actually spiritual and good, a reflection of the divine, which transcends what the physical senses report about us. This realization raises profound questions: What does it mean to be spiritual? What is the source of good? and What is the divine?
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, found that as her understanding of spiritual, good, and divine evolved, so did her ability to heal people of physical, mental, moral, and other challenges, and to do so with scientific certainty. But that meant relinquishing much of what she had learned from traditional religion, the material sciences, and the five physical senses. Instead, it was necessary to develop a spiritual sense or understanding of who we really are.
The answers began to unfold to her after she was healed of life-threatening injuries through prayer alone and by pondering the teachings and healing works of Christ Jesus in the Bible. To understand how the healing had happened, she devoted the next three years to deep study of the Scriptures. One particular focus was the two opposing stories of creation, Genesis 1—the spiritual account—and Genesis 2 and 3—the material account. Because these records negate each other, it was clear that only one of them could be true.
