Article November 11, 1950 Issue

MIND FORMS AND CONTROLS MAN

THOMAS CLARKE PULLEN

The first chapter of Genesis records that God created man in His own image. The second chapter is an allegorical description of how the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.

The latter, allegorical type, the fictitious earthling, connotes a creature of limitation. Adam, a product of dust, is the counterfeit of the real man. He seems to be born, to grow, to mature, and to decay. He seems to be circumscribed in size, shape, and ability, a victim of chance and change. Furthermore, he seems to be separate from God. This concept has prevailed through many centuries, with mankind groping its way, seeking without success surcease from the ills and pitfalls, doubts and fears, that persist in robbing men of their birthright—health, happiness, immortality.

The belief in the necessity of discord and frustration was changed when Jesus, the great Way-shower, appeared on the scene and demonstrated that man is the immaculate image of God. He told his listeners (Luke 17:21), "Behold, the kingdom of God is within you." This could not be true of mortal man. The Master also promised (John 15:26), "When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me."

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