Article March 12, 1927 Issue

God and His Creation

ANNIE CHADBURN

In the first chapter of Genesis we learn that God, having created man in His image and likeness, looked, not upon a portion of His creation, but upon the whole of it, and pronounced it "very good." The Bible teaches that God is Spirit. His creation, then, must be spiritual; and this must mean that He bestows upon it all that corresponds to His own being, thus expressing his intelligence and will. Infinite divine Mind has within itself infinite ideas which express Him, "and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God," as Mrs. Eddy says in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 503). Individual spiritual ideas are united to God, divine Principle; and man is the conscious expression of divine Mind.

With a world apparently so full of the claims of evil, the carnal mind, which Paul says is "enmity against God," would have us believe that fear and all evil are included in God's creation, and would have us see ourselves and our neighbor as sick, sinning, dying. But are we as Christian Scientists endeavoring to see the man of God's creating, healthy, spiritual, and perfect, thereby refraining from bearing false witness against ourselves and our neighbor? The image and likeness of God is not a sinner or a reformed mortal, but always as God designed him, His perfect child. Christian Scientists rejoice in the understanding which discloses the truth about man—so helpfully stated by our Leader in the textbook—whom the Scriptures declare was born, not "of the will of the flesh, ... but of God." Everyone must admit that for a right understanding of man there must be a correct understanding of God. This, however, cannot be attained through the physical senses, because God manifests Himself spiritually.

One may learn many helpful lessons through studying the accounts of healing performed by Christ Jesus and the prophets. In thinking of the one who was born blind, we find that the Master was questioned as to who had sinned, the one healed or his parents; and the answer which Jesus gave is of great importance to Christian Scientists: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents." Jesus saw always the perfect man, the highest manifestation of God, and acknowledged no other parent than the Father-Mother God. It was this recognition which enabled him instantaneously to heal the sick. Sin, sickness, and death are simply manifestations of mortal thought, thoughts of imperfection; and by realizing the perfection of God and of all that He creates, we rule out wrong thought. Then there can be no wrong manifestation.

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