If we were to identify ourselves as characteristically mortal, having the birth-growth-decay-death cycle as our framework, then all of the things generally known as the problems of mankind would be inevitably and irrevocably true.
Christian Science maintains that the world God, Spirit, made is spiritual, not material—a universe of ideas, not atoms—and that at this and every moment God's presence and power can be felt by all who accept this spiritual fact and refuse to acknowledge any other presence or power.