Article May 19, 1980 Issue

A more spiritual parenthood

ARTHUR THORNTON MOREY

Childbearing is a unique adventure. And would-be parents have special obligations. Properly viewed, parenting should be related to a growing understanding of God's fatherhood and motherhood. Healthier, better offspring are the result.

The real, perfect man, as understood in Christian Science, is not constituted of matter—blood, bones, muscles. This spiritual man is the child of God, the incorporeal likeness of Mind, expressed as idea. This truth of man is implicit in many Bible passages. Man is not matter, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. As the perfect conception of God, man is as eternal as Father-Mother God.

Man has no beginning. And his destiny depends only on God, immortal and sinless. The perfect man's development is unlimited by human opinions, medical laws, or mortals' doubts and fears, because the reality of man's spirituality overrides the unreality of all materialistic theories. Human beings need to perceive and claim these truths, however.

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