Article January 1, 1949 Issue

PUTTING ON THE NEW MAN

NEIL H. BOWLES

"Know thyself, and God will supply the wisdom and the occasion for a victory over evil." So writes Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.571). Through the study of Christian Science one learns that man is idea, the image and likeness of God, infinite Mind, and that truly to know oneself one must first understand himself to be the expression of divine Mind. Man is not a sickly mortal, born into matter and dying out of it. Neither is he tormented by fear, hatred, envy, jealousy, and all the other unlovely and unlovable qualities of the Adam creation.

Man is spiritual the child of God, good, reflecting Him in all His perfection and affluence. God eternally and bountifully provides all good for His children. Ignorance of man as the child of God is an element of all human discord.

St. Paul, recognizing that mankind accepts the concept of man as both material and spiritual, exhorted (Eph. 4:22-24), "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and ... put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." How can this exchange be accomplished?

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