Article October 20, 1917 Issue

"Sons of God"

CARRIE LEE POOLE

It is always a knowledge of the truth which corrects and destroys false impressions. A right idea entertained in human consciousness always shows the great need of mental transformation. This mental process involves the separation of good and evil in our thinking, — the giving of place and activity to good only, and none to evil, because Christian Science is founded upon the Scriptural platform of the first statement of creation, when God, or Spirit, comprehending all that He had made, pronounced it "very good."

We read that "God created man in his own image." Man is therefore spiritual, perfect, immortal as "when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." What has taken this overflowing joy out of the lives of mortals? To this it may be answered that mortals were never included in this characterization, but only the sons of God. The harmony of being is an expression of the law of infinite good, and there is no other law existing or operating to separate man from the continuity of God's law.

But what about the sick and sinful race of Adam? some one may ask. Christian Science denies this Adam creation on the basis of the statement that sin, sickness, and death have no place in God's creation as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis. Until we dissolve in our own thought this impossible partnership of good and evil, supposedly proceeding from God, who created only good and therefore could not know evil, man's unity with the Father is not made the foundation of our life basis, and these opposite beliefs will be at odds throughout time. This so-called man that starts from "the dust of the ground" is the counterfeit, or the serpent's trail that blind humanity has followed since the time of mortal history, crying out to an anthropomorphic God to heal it of the serpent's sting. The Adam curse has masqueraded in truth's garments as being part of truth, and its clever disguise has baffled many an earnest thinker; but the serpent's trail has always betrayed mortals into sickness, sin, and death. Moreover, it marks a gulf between the sinful race of Adam and the sons of God that no mortal can span.

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