According to Christian Science, the first chapter of Genesis presents God as Spirit and His creation in all its beauty, harmony, glory, and spiritual perfection. Spiritual perception enables us to see that the entire universe moves in perfect accord with the infinite law of Spirit. Man and all creation emanate from God as His radiant, complete idea and are forever at peace.
The second chapter of Genesis records a suppositional creation: Adam, made of sentient dust, and Eve of Adam's rib; she in turn bore two sons, Cain and Abel. Cain became jealous of Abel and slew him. Down through the centuries men have chronicled this mortal dream of material life involving hatred, strife, and death. But with the coming of Christ Jesus, the beloved Son of God, the truth of man's perfect, peaceful, spiritual being, without beginning or end, was brought to humanity.
Jesus' birth was heralded by the heavenly host singing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" (Luke 2:14). Thus was prophesied the glorious, ever-present peace of God, which Jesus' demonstration of the Christ was to bring to human thought.
