The Bible tells us that God is infinite and perfect.See for example, Ps. 147:5 and Matt. 5:48. He is always everywhere, and His perfection cannot improve. So God, divine Mind, doesn't grow in the way most people think of growth. Still, because Mind is omniactive, never passive, its ideas continuously unfold.
Mind's unceasing unfoldment mandates boundless development for its beloved idea, or image, spiritual man. Because man is created in God's likeness, this development issues from the basis of complete perfection. As the spiritual likeness of God, man, the true identity of each of us, does not need correction or improvement. But humanly we need to grow in expressing our true identity—to be healed of believing that man can ever be less than Godlike. And this growth is corrective as well as progressive.
With each increase of spiritual understanding and Christian practice—with every tangible demonstration of Christianly scientific healing—we outgrow the erroneous practices and imperfect manifestations that spring from misunderstanding about God and man. We grow into realization of man's limitless wholeness, perfection, and completeness. Through His Christ, Truth, God empowers and governs this individual growth. We avail ourselves of God's precious power and sheltering guidance by following His exemplary Son, Christ Jesus, obeying the moral and spiritual precepts he taught.
