Editorial January 17, 1983 Issue

Equality—the divine standard

CAROLYN B. SWAN

When God created the family of man in His likeness, He created individuality but not inequality. Individual likeness to God identifies each member of His spiritual household. Divine equality is the effect of that likeness.

Actually, divine equality is unopposed. In the kingdom of God there is no element of disunity to pit one individuality against another, or give one advantage over another. God decrees for each child distinction without disparity. In His creation each identity is complete, perfectly harmonized with every other, never in competition for all-inclusive good. Belief of inequality arises from false, mortal, material sense. It is correctable through one's living as a Christian disciple, in spiritual and moral obedience to the divine law Jesus practiced, the divine law discovered by Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Science.

If we are embroiled in discriminating against people we believe differ from us, or if we are discriminated against, it's likely we'll blame the other fellow for our distress. But it's actually our misconception of God and man that disturbs us. Writes Mrs. Eddy, "Outside the material sense of things, all is harmony." Science and Health, p. 489.

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