Truthfulness is a valuable quality; upholding truth in our words and actions is certainly laudable. Throughout the Bible, truth is associated with God. Deuteronomy, for instance, speaks of God as “a God of truth” (32:4). A God of truth is naturally the source of all truth, of all that is legitimate, good, and real. And these adjectives describe the very nature of God—of Truth itself.
Clearly, anything that is erroneous or untruthful cannot originate in divine Truth. Mary Baker Eddy explains, “That God is Truth, the Scriptures aver; that Truth never created error, or such a capacity, is self-evident; that God made all that was made, is again Scriptural” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, pp. 49–50).
The understanding in Christian Science that God is All, and that He made everything good and created man in His image and likeness (as stated in Genesis 1), is a powerful starting point in spiritual healing. It recognizes that man, in divine Science, reflects divine Truth and can therefore be conscious only of what is good and true. The apparent opposite of Truth—called error, sin, sickness, disease, death—has no reality or power, and no basis in Spirit.
