The Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, teaches that God is the one great creator, the source of all life. The first chapter of Genesis records: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."Gen. 1:27; And Christ Jesus said, "For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself."John 5:26;
God is Life, and man, made in His image and likeness, inevitably manifests the qualities of the Life that is God. What is the nature of Life, God? Mrs. Eddy writes, "Life is, always has been, and ever will be independent of matter; for Life is God, and man is the idea of God, not formed materially but spiritually, and not subject to decay and dust."Science and Health, p. 200;
Christian Science teaches that the nature of Life, God, is entirely spiritual, and hence entirely separate from matter, from the erroneous belief that mortals are creators. God is not a corporeal being, and His infinite power and goodness could in no way be confined to matter or shared with mortal would-be creators. Neither is His image and likeness, the real man, subject to matter, to a material sense of creation, or to any false limitations arising from the belief of life in matter, such as birth, death, time, disease, decay. God alone is the source of man's life. Therefore man has only one kind of life, the kind of life which he derives from his creator, God. Discerning the spiritual nature of his present, only life, the individual can prove the qualities of his real being here and now.
