How old are we? The natural reaction is to think of our birthday. But is this our beginning? Was there a time when God had no children? Was man brought forth at a certain stage of history like a manufactured product with built-in obsolescence?
Our true beginning is not a point in time. Referring to the first verse in the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," Gen. 1:1; Mrs. Eddy comments, "This word beginning is employed to signify the only,—that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe." Science and Health, p. 502;
The textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, contains many terms for the spiritual, true man: God's likeness, reflection, emanation, manifestation, idea, and so forth. Such concepts have no time connotation. Rather, they present man as an eternal expression of divine Mind.
