The Scientific Statement of Being is a fundamental axiom of Christian Science. It explains and proves the spiritual nature of man which is the central idea of Christian Science theology.

The Scientific Statement of Being is the most cited textual passage in Christian Science practice. It is also read aloud in churches and Sunday schools at the end of every Sunday service:

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual. (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.468:9)

The Scientific Statement of Being has been referred to as "the creed" of Christian Science. Christian Science has no actual religious creed. The founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, cited the religious tenets below in answer to the question of creed.

THE TENETS OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

From "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,"by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:3-27

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2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.

3. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.

4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.

5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.

6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.