Editorial October 24, 1959 Issue

NO ANIMALITY IN GOD'S LIKENESS

John J. Selover

Christian Science reveals that God is Spirit and that man, His likeness, is exclusively spiritual. Man is God's reflection, and in man there is no mortal or fleshly element. He images forth goodness, happiness, health, and love and includes no evil, disease, or other discord. In the substance of man's being is no room for that which is unlike God, for that which is carnal or material.

The truth of spiritual being operates as a law in our human experience, casting out that which is contrary to the good, the worthy, or the true. Mary Baker Eddy points out in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 61), "The good in human affections must have ascendency over the evil and the spiritual over the animal, or happiness will never be won."

Christ Jesus persistently worked to cast mortal error out of the lives of men, thereby awakening them to the enjoyment of a higher sense of happiness, better health, and more harmonious existence. Whether the ailing one was a sick man, a lame man, a sinner, or one who was blind or dumb, the Master, through his healing work, proved that man is spiritual, not material.

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