Article February 23, 1981 Issue

Seeing what God creates

DAVID K. NARTONIS

It is commonly believed that through the physical senses we see, touch, and hear ourselves and others and the world around us. But we are not really the mortals we seem to be—and seem to see—through the physical senses. Nor is the universe we really live in the world of matter it is presented as being. Believing the physical senses is like looking into a mirror that produces a distorted image. This picture is only a distortion of what we see when we learn to look for what God has created.

The false view lasts only so long as it is accepted. The false belief produces the distorted picture, and the distorted picture confirms the false belief! To break this vicious circle, we must reject as unreal the discord we see through the physical senses, and we must reform our concept to accord with God's creation and its true, scientific basis. This is what Christian Science shows us how to do. And when our concept of man and the universe is correct, the distorting factor will be gone. Then we will understand and begin to see evidence of what God has made.

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."^{I Cor. 13:12.} In this well-known passage, St. Paul compares human perception to looking into a mirror, which in his day was often made of bronze and therefore produced an imperfect image. What does all this say about the material things we see around us? They are counterfeits of spiritual reality.