The spiritual identity of man as God's expression, brought to light through the discovery of Christian Science, presents the one adequate, wholly satisfying answer to the age-old questions, "Who am I? Who created me? Why am I?" This divine revelation of man's true selfhood, revolutionary in its effect upon human thought, is becoming widely accepted by those seeking spiritual values. As its deep significance is more clearly perceived in relation to human affairs, it is found to be the saving Christ, furnishing positive means for the destruction of inharmonious conditions.
On page 151 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states a great spiritual truth, coincident with the Biblical pronouncement in Genesis that God created man in His own image and likeness. She writes: "Every function of the real man is governed by the divine Mind. The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness." To those with sufficient spiritual insight to discern its true import the message brings a foretaste of heaven, proving Christian Science to be the Comforter promised by Christ Jesus. Constantly it becomes clearer that man's eternal completeness, his perfect sonship with God, is a scientific, unchanging, spiritual fact. Christian Science acknowledges man in the kingdom of heaven, living, moving, and having being in God, and keeps him there.
The correct concept of man as an expression of Deity is indeed the only one compatible with the record in the first chapter of Genesis. Opposing concepts which would shackle men to human experiences called sin, disease, and dissolution are obviously erroneous. As we accept this right idea of complete and perfect man, we begin to find real selfhood, and as a natural result of this acceptance we experience increasing freedom from afflictive beliefs generally accepted as legitimate phases of daily living. The spiritual truth that whatever seems undesirable or baneful is but a baseless attack upon the Christ-idea, is Truth's message, which reveals man as the beloved son of God.
