Paul declared in his address to the Athenians on Mars Hill that "in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." Man, in God's likeness, is therefore wholly spiritual and harmonious, since he eternally reflects God.
The Master said, "Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven," thereby declaring the true or spiritual origin of man. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says on page 262of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin." And on page 325 she writes, "The time cometh when the spiritual origin of man, the divine Science which ushered Jesus into human presence, will be understood and demonstrated."
Enoch, Elijah, Daniel, and the three Hebrew youths, Jesus and some of his disciples grasped the great truth that life is spiritual and eternal, and demonstrated it in their own experiences here on earth. It is recorded that Enoch walked with God and was translated. He merited the record that he pleased God. Elijah raised the dead, and performed many other miracles which were supremely natural, and was translated. Daniel, unswerving in his loyalty and obedience to God, was safe in the lions' den; and the Hebrew children who refused to bow down and worship the golden image, but were faithful in their worship of the one God, went through the fiery furnace unharmed, thus proving that they lived, moved, and had their being in Mind.
