GENESIS ONE

How often are we trapped in the thinking of the spiritual creation set forth in Genesis one as an ideal that is foreign to our everyday experience? Ask yourself, which idea of creation am I accepting at any given time – the spiritual creation or the material, Oneness or twoness? Speaking from the Genesis One point of view James wrote of God as never changing, with no variableness, and no shadow of turning. (James 1:17) The God who supposedly created man material in Genesis two is so unlike the “God that saw every thing that he had made, and, behold it was very good.” (Gen 1:31) that we can clearly see that if one is Truth the other is error.

Mary Baker Eddy draws a clear distinction between the creation of Soul and Spirit and the material creation throughout Science and Health “God and Soul are one (created in his own image), and this one never included in a limited mind or a limited body (Adam).” As you are reading Science and Health you will find many examples of the ripping away of the Adam dream and Man as the expression of Soul.