The divine reality of God's perfect creation awakens within humanity the deepest desire to understand and accept the full promise that man is perfect now as the spiritual child of God.
By reason of man's sonship with God, as affirmed by the Scriptures, perfect completeness and goodness is God's will for man, an ever-present fact of his true and only identity. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy writes, "The standard of perfection was originally God and man." And a little later we read, "God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect."1
Evidence of human response to the divine demand for perfection begins early in Biblical history. In Genesis we find the inspiring account of Abram's recognition and total acceptance of the great revolutionary fact that he was to serve and obey one God, not many gods. Yielding in faith to this momentous revelation, Abram was transformed to such a degree that he was renamed Abraham. God spoke to him in these spiritually profound words: "I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect." 2
