Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, once wrote, “If we regard good as more natural than evil, and spiritual understanding—the true knowledge of God—as imparting the only power to heal the sick and the sinner, we shall demonstrate in our lives the power of Truth and Love” (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 3).

The spiritual understanding of God and man that Christian Science imparts enables us to put into daily practice the power of divine Truth and Love in overcoming sin, sickness, and mortality, undeterred by the suggestions and distractions of the physical senses. 

In the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible, where God’s spiritual creation is set forth, it is repeated over and over that “God saw that it was good” (see verses 10, 12, 18, 21, 25). Once, when noticing this repeated phrase, I looked up the word good in the Glossary of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy and found that the first definition is “God” (p. 587). So I went back to those verses and read them as “God saw that it was [God].” I realized that these statements weren’t describing God seeing something separate from Himself and recognizing its goodness; what God was seeing as His creation was His own self-expression.