The essence of man's true being is Spirit, God. God formed man of His own perfect substance and declared what He formed to be good. Man's nature has never changed. Man never fell from perfection. He is held eternally in harmonious inseparability from God.
All that existed in the beginning is really all that exists now. Spirit, God, is the All-in-all, the perfect One. There was and is nothing from which man can be made other than God's own essence, His own substance. And because this is what constitutes man's entire being, God could only judge of everything He made that "it was very good" (Gen. 1:31).
The allegorical concept of creation set forth in Chapter 2 of Genesis is a mystery to uninspired thought. It sets forth a sense of creation in direct contrast and conflict with the first or spiritual record. The false creation follows directly after it is reported that a mist arose from the earth. A darkened sense of creation now appears on the scene, including a man made of flesh, blood, and bones. It is a false sense, or a sense based upon a misconception of true being.
