Article January 16, 1943 Issue

Seeing What Constitutes Man

IRENE V. DUNAWAY

To understand what constitutes man, in God's image and likeness, is to see him as entirely apart from sin, disease, and death. It is to understand that he has never had any existence apart from God. It is to see him as abiding in everlasting perfection.

It was because Jesus understood what constitutes man that he was enabled to say to the woman bowed together for eighteen years, "Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity." Jesus did not say she would be loosed after he healed her. He said, "Thou art loosed." He declared the truth to her, and she was loosed at once. He could say this with authority because he understood man's only existence to be in reflecting God.

Man lives as the expression of God. He does not live, or exist, apart from God. He has life, or being, only as the reflection of God, as the expression of all that God is. He has no life, no being, unlike the nature of God.

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