It is the heritage of each individual, as the child of God, to represent God's intactness and completeness. It is Love's, God's, will that not one of His children be deprived of any good. And God causes each of His children to reflect all divine attributes in a distinct way. One's God-bestowed individuality is not fully indicated, then, in his doing some things particularly well and other things poorly. It is seen, instead, in his expression of the fullness of God's nature in all that he does.
In Ephesians, at one point Paul speaks first in terms of humanity's limited view of man by describing individuality as one's specializing in this or that ability. But then, lifting the reader higher, he goes on to speak of coming "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ"—of the spiritual intactness of each of God's ideas. In The New English Bible, we read, "So shall we all at last attain to the unity inherent in our faith and our knowledge of the Son of God—to mature manhood, measured by nothing less than the full stature of Christ." Eph. 4:13
Defining man in the stature of Christ, as he is in truth, Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker." Science and Health, p. 475
