Article June 3, 1905 Issue

God and His Likeness

John Carveth

Charlotte (Mich) Republican

The likeness of Spirit must be spiritual, not material. While Paul said that flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, he taught that man can do so, and therefore implied that matter is no part or quality of the reality of man. "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh [matter] profiteth nothing." That is, when the real and the true is brought to light in human consciousness, it will be found that Spirit is the only animating, and the only knowing or conscious fact of existence; that Spirit, not matter, is the only source or foundation of consciousness for man.

Jesus taught and proved for all time, that God, the divine intelligence, neither within Himself nor in the scientific operation of His laws in the human realm, so—called, possessed or imparted any element of evil, turbulence, or discord. Jesus healed disease and sin, but never produced them, or any condition from which they could spring. He quelled the storm, but never caused it. He voiced and demonstrated the unity and allness of good in Spirit; that in divine intelligence, no element or quality of evil, death, or discord can possibly exist or originate.

Christian Science thoroughly accepts this teaching of Jesus, and, both logically and Scripturally, draws the conclusion that sin and disease belong to the carnal mind, which is ignorant of God or Spirit, and can only be freed from the consequence of its ignorance by a knowledge of Spirit, not matter. This spiritual teaching and practice alone can bring to us the truth of Spirit which Jesus named the Comforter, whereby the human mind can be regenerated, awakened to that spiritual discernment which cancels human ignorance with divine wisdom, and with this ignorance go the ills which have sprung from the false belief in the material origin of man.

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