Is our capacity to live with divine grace related to the laws of material heredity and environment? "Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?" (Matt. 7: 16.) Can God's gifts, even when received in human experience, include anything which does not reflect His own spotless selfhood?
Because so often men answer Yes to these questions it is hardly a wonder that they seek refuge from such muddled concepts of being and turn for comfort and direction to human philosophies and political isms. In varying degrees these movements, in trying to deny to grace and truth their divine origin, try to take as their own creation the grace of impartial bounty and to usurp the might of omnipotence.
Nevertheless, the true man in God's image is not governed by the quality of a political ideology, whether chosen or imposed, or by the quantity of his worldly education. He has never been akin to a human family, with its hereditary traits. Likewise, he is not and never can be related to a material home, neighborhood, community, or nation, neither was he ever classified by race or sex.
