Article March 12, 1955 Issue

MAN IS COMPLETE IN GOD

MARGARET J. SINCLAIR

In Christian Science we learn that God's universe, including man, is perfect and complete. This is brought out in the first chapter of Genesis; therefore, the statements in this chapter may be said to serve as a beginning or foundation for spiritually scientific thinking. Also, the call to awake or to arise from the dust of material sense and perceive God's perfect creation through spiritual sense is stressed many times in the Bible.

Under the marginal heading "Self-completeness" Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 264): "As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness."

No one can say this sounds too good to be true, for in Science only that which is good, pure, and perfect, is true. Paul must have discerned something of the beauty and perfection of God's universe when he wrote, referring to a passage in Isaiah, "As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (I Cor. 2:9). We learn that the invisible things of God are invisible only to false, material sense; hence the necessity of striving to gain the spiritual understanding of the Scriptures. It is this awakening to spiritual reality which reveals more of God's goodness at hand.

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