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Why did Mary Baker Eddy reject the belief that God created matter?

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The Mother Church at the Christian Science Center in Boston stands beside a large reflecting pool, with its domed roof and ornate facade visible under a partly cloudy sky. — Christian Science The Mother Church and reflecting pool, Christian Science Center, Boston.

Mary Baker Eddy rejected the belief that God created matter because she viewed it as a fallacy that attributed all suffering and misery in the universe to God. By defining the material world as a false sense of reality resulting from inadequate human perception, she argued that accepting matter as a divine creation leads to the erroneous conclusion that salvation requires the resurrection of the flesh.1

For Eddy, the sole reality of existence is Spirit. She taught that mortal thought evolves a subjective state—which it names matter—that effectively shuts out the true sense of Spirit. Consequently, she maintained that redemption involves recognizing the nothingness of matter and the allness of Soul and Spirit. This theological stance was central to her quest to reconcile the existence of a loving God with the presence of pain and evil in the world, leading her to conclude that sin and suffering are unreal and can be overcome through spiritual understanding.231