Article October 6, 2014 Issue

Defending true manhood

Rosalinda Johnson

So much of what we see in the news is about violent crimes committed by men—murder, rape, assault, domestic abuse. If we take these reports at face value, masculine strength often seems to take the form of brutality. But Christian Science teaches us how to prayerfully defend ourselves, and men in general, against this mistaken concept of manhood.

Since God is pure good Himself, He never sees man in any other light.

The true view of man as created by God can be found in the first chapter of the Bible. Referring generically to all men and women, it says: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:26). This is the real man, whose strength is God-given and spiritual. The same chapter of the Bible says, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (verse 31).

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