Article April 22, 2013 Issue

Never born, never aging

Jane Keogh

“Stand porter at the door of thought,” Mary Baker Eddy charges us in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. “Admitting only such conclusions as you wish realized in bodily results, you will control yourself harmoniously” (p. 392). We may be willing enough to do this with thoughts of sickness, something we desire to reject, but what about the more subtle suggestion of having a birthday? 

We all believe we have a birth date. We are never allowed to forget it as we’re required to list it to confirm our identification when enrolling in courses, applying for a license or a passport, and at countless other times. 

But the Bible states right at the beginning, in the first chapter of Genesis, before any other stories commence, that man is made in the image and likeness of God, that man is made by God alone, and that “God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (1:31). 

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