THERE is one creator and one creation. Christian Science is founded on this scientific fact. This one creator is Spirit. This is according to Old Testament Scripture and the teachings of Christ Jesus, who declared God to be "a Spirit." Since Spirit is the creator, creation does not then consist in the making of material objects, but in the revealing or unfolding of spiritual ideas. These spiritual ideas of necessity express the nature of their source, and are living, intelligent, tangible, and of indestructible substance.
On pages 502 and 503 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected." Here we are assured that creation is in the nature of unfoldment, the unfoldment of spiritual ideas, never expressed as or confined in material objects, yet forever identified and inseparable from their source. This same passage from Science and Health continues, "These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God." Is not this a clear statement that the sons and daughters of God are spiritual ideas, not supposititious mortal beings? St. John states it most explicitly in his first epistle, where he says: "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son [the Christ, Truth]. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
Ignorant human theories of creation, which are evolved by error and are mythical in their nature, declare creation to be both spiritual and material, the general belief being that man has an immortal soul confined in a mortal body subject to its limitations and consequent evils. Here is presented an effort to confine the infinite within the finite, an obvious impossibility. The attempt is further made to attribute this pseudo creation to God and call it divine. Mortal man would usurp the place of God and himself become a creator.
