To finite sense there is no perfect man. To spiritual sense there is no other man. Limited sense testimony is always opposed to scientific truth. The finite can never understand the infinite. The apostle Paul tells us in unmistakable terms that spiritual things can be only spiritually understood.
Making all due allowance for the limited spiritual vision of the early prophets as they emerged slowly from the crude concepts of the past, and the shortcomings of the translators who in their labors seemingly read into spiritual prophecy material interpretations, we owe to the inspired grandeur of the Old Testament the idea of the one perfect God. In the consciousness of such spiritually minded men as Moses, Joshua, and Elijah, who demonstrated the fallability of material claims to power when confronted with the understanding of Mind, the true idea of man had been unfolding to humanity, and it reached its culmination in Jesus of Nazareth, who set forth the unqualified demand, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." The spiritual man was clearly defined in the mental vision of the Master, and no misconception of man exists in the thought of the true Christian Scientist of to-day, knowing as he does that a transient, perishable mortal is not the likeness of God; for "the image of God" implies the conscious understanding of God, having no counterpart in that which appears to material sense.
In the apocalyptic vision, the Revelator saw the material concept of man disappear. Christ, Truth, speaking through Revelation, said to the church at Laodicea, "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." And again in St. John's spiritual perception of heaven and earth, we have the divine promise: "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." The son of God must inevitably be the perfect man, expressing the divine intelligence.
