Article March 2, 1981 Issue

Seeing God as true consciousness heals inadequacy

JOHN LINDSAY RENNIE

"I AM THAT I AM" Ex. 3:14. is how God identified Himself to Moses when He chose him to lead the children of Israel out of captivity, the Bible tells us. "I AM THAT I AM," the ever-present God. This momentous declaration revealed to Moses God's true, eternal identity. "Life is the everlasting I am, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase," Science and Health, p. 290. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health. This I am we apprehend as cause. Man, whom God has created in His own image, then, we can accept as effect.

True consciousness is the I am. Therefore man, as effect, possesses true spiritual consciousness. What a lovely thought: man at one with the divine consciousness as its reflection.

If we understand this statement to some degree, it is not too difficult to discern that man is not a mortal. A mortal can have no part in the premise or conclusion of the above statement, because matter has no spiritual consciousness—in fact, no consciousness at all. Mortal man is not and never was a creator; he is nothing more than a counterfeit of man. As we grow in our understanding that divine Spirit is the sole creator, the claims of the counterfeit begin to lose the semblance of reality.

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