Article April 10, 1971 Issue

Characters in God's Story

ENID THACKERY

Christian Science brings people the recognition that God is the only author of man. The progressive understanding of this fact begins to solve for them the enigma of mortal existence. For those searching for their true identity, it clarifies the origin, or source, of their being.

When an author starts working on a story, he has the undisputed privilege of creating his own characters. They begin in his thinking as his ideas, and he can plan the way he wants them to appear and behave. Somewhat as an author peoples his story with the creations of his thinking, God, Mind, peoples the real, spiritual universe with His own spiritual ideas.

In our true identity we are spiritual and wholly good and harmonious because God, the author of man, does not know, create, or send evil. The Bible tells us, "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."^{Gen. 1:31} The highest ideas of God are known as man, a generic term that describes what God is knowing. This is what we really are. God and His reflection, man, are unknown to the five physical senses, and accepting this premise, we are immediately freed to think of ourselves in an entirely fresh way. Color of skin, height, weight, regularity or irregularity of features, become unimportant as we contemplate our genuine, spiritual identity.