Article June 13, 1959 Issue

SPECIFIC IDEAS MEET DAILY NEEDS

JOANNA FRESHWATER

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches that any belief of lack is an illusion. Perfect God, Spirit, has created man in His own image and likeness—spiritual, complete, lacking nothing. Just as surely as God does not sin and cannot be sick, neither does He lack for anything. Therefore man, His inseparable reflection, cannot sin, be sick, or experience poverty of any kind, in any degree.

In human experience the arguments of material sense must be seen for what they are—baseless denials of spiritual reality. Since Spirit is All, spiritual sense is the only true consciousness. Spirit being All, its opposite, matter, cannot exist as a fact, and material sense must be a lie.

The creation of Spirit, Mind, is not made up of matter, but of ideas. Reasoning from this premise, we see that if we seem to lack anything, this means that we are not perceiving some necessary idea or are not accepting it.

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