Creation is happening now. The spiritual insight of the first chapter of Genesis doesn't refer to past events, but to present revelation. Right now divine Principle, God, is saying: "Let there be light" and "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."Gen. 1:3, 26;
It is a mistake to think of God and man in terms of past history rather than current actuality. Healing depends on this fact of God's unfolding creative activity. When we understand that there has never been a moment more perfect than this now of being—flowing forth from Love and just as fresh as God's pure, creative impulse—we wipe out the arena for disease or troubles of any kind. Such errors disappear because they don't actually exist.
Error doesn't have a present. Only when we accept a gap between ourselves and God's ongoing creating do we provide a place for error. All too easily we relegate creation to a point in the past or to a process occurring over a period of time already past. But in reality, history is not a factor. Mrs. Eddy underscores this point when she writes in the Christian Science textbook, "The true theory of the universe, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development."Science and Health, p. 547; And her exegesis of Genesis 1 through 2:4, 5 is cast almost entirely in the present tense.See ibid., pp. 502-521;
