The answer to the Psalmist's question (Ps. 8:4), "What is man, that thou art mindful of him?" is found by asking another question, What must be the nature of the man God knows? Since God, Spirit, cannot know a material man, the real man is not material; he is spiritual.
The man God knows is not the man the material senses present. In order to know the real man and to express his loving, harmonious nature, we must dispute the evidence of the material senses, which present man as mortal and discordant.
Christ Jesus did not accept as real the evidence that the material senses present about man. If he had accepted it, he would not have said to the man with the withered hand (Matt. 12:13), "Stretch forth thine hand." The Christ -consciousness, which beholds man as God knows him, enabled Jesus to speak with authority and heal deformity and sickness. The Master knew that evil is a supposition, that there is no truth in it. He knew that it is no part of man.
