Because they saw the wonderful healings that Christ Jesus performed, even the arrogant, materially-minded Pharisees sought to know how he performed these "miracles," as they called the healings. In reply to Nicodemus, one of their rulers, who came by night to learn more about these healings, Jesus said plainly (John 3:6, 7): "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again." This puzzled Nicodemus, because according to his material concept of creation it was impossible, to be reborn. But Jesus, whose outlook was purely spiritual, was speaking of the spiritual rebirth.
Until the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, religious thought generally accepted as authentic the material concept of creation given in the second chapter of Genesis, beginning with the sixth verse, and disregarded the diametrically opposite version recorded in the first chapter. The spiritual account described in the latter begins with light and continues with the unfoldment of an altogether good creation, climaxed by man in the image and likeness of God and having dominion over all the earth.
After declaring God's approval of His creation, the true record states (Gen. 2:1), "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them." What a definite word is "finished," which is defined in one dictionary as meaning not merely completed, but perfected in all the minute details.
