Article July 29, 1972 Issue

The Divine Image Remains

RUTH T. KNIGHT

Man's likeness to God as His reflection is a fact of creation that can never be changed or lost. But it can be hidden from human view by the mistaken belief that man is not immortal but mortal and exists in a material universe; whereas the Bible reveals that man is spiritual, immortal, living in a spiritual universe.

Christ Jesus came to expose the fallacies of barren mortal thinking and reveal man as God's son, created in His likeness, free from the syndrome of sin, disease, and death. How can we make his teachings demonstrable in our experience? We can begin by endeavoring to separate the real from the unreal in our thinking, as Christian Science teaches us to do.

Under the marginal heading "The divine image not lost," Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health: "If man was once perfect but has now lost his perfection, then mortals have never beheld in man the reflex image of God. The lost image is no image. The true likeness cannot be lost in divine reflection." Science and Health, p. 259;

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