Article January 12, 2015 Issue

Detecting and rejecting the counterfeit

Robert MacKusick

In today’s commercial industry there are many fake products that fool buyers, such as off-market brands and copycat items that look like the real thing, not to mention counterfeit money. Detecting counterfeit items in the marketplace requires familiarity with their legitimate counterparts—with the genuine products—and oftentimes checking their trademark or country of origin.

While people are generally aware of the need to be alert to such deceitful practices, they may be less aware of a subtler kind of deceit that operates wholly in thought and would fool us into believing the counterfeit of our true selves—that is, that we are mortal, flawed, perhaps even sick or sinful, rather than wholly spiritual, made in God’s image and likeness, and therefore free from disease and sin. Detecting and rejecting the counterfeit view of man and recognizing and accepting the real and true requires a familiarity with God, divine Truth, and with man’s unbroken relationship to God, and with his spiritual nature as perfect and Godlike.

Christ Jesus understood and demonstrated man’s divine nature as God’s beloved sons and daughters, made in His image and likeness. This enabled him to identify and reject the carnal mind’s false claims about man’s origin and identity. It enabled him to heal with love and confidence.

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