Paul, encouraging the newly minted Christians at Thessalonica, wrote, “Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness” (I Thessalonians 5:5). And to the Ephesians he wrote, “Walk as children of light” (Ephesians 5:8). He may as well have said, “You do not belong to the ignorance of matter—of mortality, limitation, darkness. Live enlightened, in the understanding of Spirit.”
Right off the bat in the Bible, the first chapter of Genesis alludes to God as Spirit. And because He is portrayed as an intelligent and all-wise creator, we may conclude that God is Mind. God’s children, described as made in His image and likeness, must therefore be spiritual and intelligent ideas. Wise King Solomon spoke of God’s infinitude: “Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee” (I Kings 8:27).
To human sense, trees, mountains, horses, and men have a very solid look and feel, and we think of them as material—trunks of wood, chunks of rock, bodies of flesh and blood, all subject to limitation and decay. But what if they are—as logic insists they must be as products of infinite Spirit, Mind—images of thought, and not matter?
