Article May 21, 1955 Issue

CHILDREN OF GOD

FRANCES PORTER

God's children are spiritual ideas, never immature, incomplete, or subject to phases of imperfection. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 244), "Man in Science is neither young nor old." Man is, and always has been, mature, complete, perfect, pure.

The changeless perfection of the man of God's creating is expressed in these words from the Bible (Eccl. 3:14): "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it." The mortal belief that man must come into being as an infant and must then pass through states and stages of material development before reaching maturity is the basic error from which springs the belief in child-hood diseases and erroneous dispositional traits. God's children do not achieve maturity; they have maturity.

Mrs. Eddy defines "children" in part as, "The spiritual thoughts and representatives of Life, Truth, and Love" (Science and Health, p. 582). A spiritual thought can never be less than perfect. A representative of Deity can never represent anything contrary to His purity, wholeness, and completeness. The children of God reflect His spiritual power, health, wisdom, understanding, love, and holiness. "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt. 3:17) is the benediction bestowed for all eternity on every child of the Father-Mother God.

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