Article February 15, 1975 Issue

One Kind of Man—the Spiritual

HELEN A. DEL NEGRO

"Before I became a student of Christian Science," a friend of mine said, "I knew only one kind of man—the mortal, the flesh-and-blood me. Then, as I began to learn in Christian Science of my true identity as a son of God, spiritual and perfect, for a while it seemed there were two of me. Now," he laughingly concluded, "I know that we must put off that old concept of man as mortal and material, and learn to accept just one identity—the right one, the only one that has ever really been true—our spiritual identity."

The mortal is never the true identity of any of us. It is mankind's misconception of the truth of being. But we cannot fully put off a misconception without first knowing what the true concept is.

Christian Science accepts the concept of man revealed in the Bible, in the first chapter of Genesis. Here we learn that man is created wholly good—the very image and likeness—that is, the reflection—of Spirit, God. Although there is a great deal in the Bible concerning the misconception of man as a mortal, still, many of the prophets caught magnificent glimpses that there is just one real man—God's man—not two, one mortal, the other immortal.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

Inseparable from God