Christian Science teaches that to gain a clear sense of the relationship of God and the real spiritual man, plainly revealed in the first chapter of Genesis, one must necessarily get rid of the belief that man is a mortal, forever on his knees for mercy and looking up to a faraway, corporeal God.
The morning after Jacob beheld in a dream his at-one-ment with God and his eternal inheritance, he set a stone up as a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it.
In answer to an inquiry about when the kingdom of God should come, Christ Jesus said, "The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
When newspaper headlines scream troubled conditions, do we close our mental door with the hope that things will somehow get better, or do we say, "What can I do about it?