A prevalent assumption is that we are all subject to aging and that this causes our body to deteriorate. This so-called law of aging is one of the most pernicious of the material laws referred to and refuted in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Science and Health says, for instance, “Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God” (pp. 380–381). 

This corresponds with the Scriptures, which tell us that God is Spirit and that we are made in His image and likeness. So we are not one whit material and thus not subject to supposed laws relating to matter.

In prayer, we can declare this emphatically—that “laws” of aging and decay are made null and void by the law of God, infinite Mind. As divine Mind’s ideas, which are governed by God’s law, we are not subject to aging or deterioration any more than are numbers in mathematics. The number seven couldn’t, after much use, somehow get worn down to 6.875. Science and Health states, “Man in Science is neither young nor old” (p. 244).