Article November 2, 1940 Issue

Sunday School Notes and Comments

Questions in Sunday School

The pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School may, at times, encounter difficulty with the subject of creation. The youth may not clearly differentiate between the spiritual real and the material unreal until he learns that Christian Science reveals creation from a spiritual standpoint. Through erroneous teaching, the youth may take the allegorical account of creation, in Genesis, literally, and attempt to adjust his thought to a material basis. But if our textbook, Science and Health, is used as a "key" to the Scriptures, no bewilderment need disturb the student in a Christian Science Sunday School. In the chapter on Genesis in Science and Health (pp. 501-557), Mrs. Eddy interprets the two accounts of creation from a spiritually scientific standpoint, thus opening the way to a right understanding of them.

An essential step in knowing spiritual creation as the only real creation is the gaining of an understanding of God as the only creator. Here the pupil will be helped by studying the definition of God to be found in our textbook (ibid., p. 587): "The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence."

Recalling the Scriptural teaching that God made all that was made and pronounced it "very good," the student will realize that all that is unlike God and His expression, unlike good, unlike Spirit, Love, Principle, is not of His creating, and is therefore unreal or false. Then he will perceive that what is called material creation is the history of a dream existence, having no reality.

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