The Delta independent., 1915-03-26
Creation

is great confusion of belief. is the
subject of creation. There is perhaps
no subject connected with religion, or
mentioned in the Bible, about which
there is greater MISUNDERSTANDING
than there is about creation. 1t is
surprising how many people there are
who do not even know that there are
two accounts OF the creation in the
Bible. The first account is to be
found in the first chapter of Genesis,
and extends down to and includes the
third verse of the second chapter.
Beginning with the fourth verse Of
the second chapter. there follows an
other account that is wholly different
from the first.
In the first account, we are told that
God created the universe. and that
everything made by Him was good.
and lastly. that He created man. in
His image. and after His own likeness,
and that he was good; while in the
second account, we have the allegory
about God coming down to earth. and
mixing up dust and calling IL man.
Then follows the story of Adam and
Eve, and the Garden of Eden. and we
are told that deep sleep fell upon
Adam, and that then sin appeared.
and that brother murdered brother.
and from that day to this that the
man made OF dust has been sinner
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Christian Science accepts the first
account OF the creation as the spiritual
and real creation and upon this foun-
dation and basis 1t builds. Religious
teachers throughout the centuries
have erroneously regarded the Adam
man as being the real man made in
the image and likeness OF God. yet
the Bible nowhere says so. The BIZ
bic nowhere says that the Adam-man
was made in God image or likeness
That statement was made concerning
the real man described in an account
OF the real creation. And religious
teachers have vainly striven TO make
the wisdom and love OF God III the
creation OF sinner
Such doctrine as that is impossi-
BILE II dishonors God. and degrades
man. 1t makes God responsible for
all of the sin and all OF the misery
from the beginning OF time. and the
best proof that II is not true is that
II has never delivered those who be-
lieved in 1t from evil.
How perfectly the name mortal
man" fits him. Have you ever thought
of Il? Mortaimort-death. for that is
what the word means. A death-man,
having a death body and death mind.
Does anyone believe that God ever
created death-man or gave him a
deathmind or death.body? And is
II not plain that so long as people
conceive OF themselves as being NOR
tails. or the mortal. or deathman, so
long will they continue to remain in
partnership with death. Christian
Science makes plain that men and
women can be emancipated from that
enemy when they shall have learned
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their own true relationship to God.
Christian Science teaches that man
is just what the Bible says he is; that
he is spiritual: that God made him In
His own image and after His own
likeness: that He made him perfect.
and that what God made perfect has
never possessed the capacity to be-
come imperfect
Christian Science is the only system
OF teaching. religious or secular.
that even makes san attempt to ex-
plain the difference between man and
the Adam-man, and Christian Science
does explain It and mak9it perfectly
plain by pointing out that the Adam.
mantle dust mantle mortal or
death.man. is nothing more or less
than the false mortal concept Of man
the mis-concept OF man. II is pre-.
cisely as though one should put on a
pair Of green eyeglasses. He would
then look out upon a green universe.
He might scrub and scour some object
all he pleased. but could never remove
the green from II. because the green
would not be in the object although
appearing to be there. for It would
be in the lens through which he look.
ed at II. The only thing necessary
for the man to do in order to trans
late the entire universe back into its
normal aspect would be for him mere
ly to AXE off the green lenses through
which he was looking. In like man
ner, the only thing necessary for us