In the first chapter of Genesis, which Christian Scientists accept as the account of the real and spiritual creation, we are told that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." But in the second chapter—the account of the false or counterfeit creation— we find woman separated from man. Thus the first chapter of the Old Testament portrays the indivisibility of man as "male and female," combining all masculine and feminine qualities of good, while the second suggests that there are two separate entities, male and female.
The belief of separation or division is the source of all the ills, trials, and discords of mortal existence. Error, beginning with the separation of "male and female," has ever since claimed to operate as a law of separation to every phase of human existence. With each successive division, life seems to become more complex and perplexing. In nothing is this more unfortunate than in the multiplicity of religions and creeds which divide humanity.
Is there a way out? Yes, there is, in the simple, straightforward, and inspired teaching of Christ Jesus, revived and reinstated in modern times through Christian Science. His spiritual teaching and his wonderful works uncovered and refuted entirely the claim of evil to separate and divide. In healing people at a distance, he proved that in divine Mind there is no separation. He fed the multitudes far away from their homes, because he knew perfectly that man can never be separated from the spiritual fount of abundance and supply. In his transfiguration he showed that being is indivisibly one. And finally he summed up his teachings in that glorious prayer of unity and oneness, "Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are;" and again, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us."
