ERROR VERSUS TRUTH

Since God is the one infinite Cause, man, His spiritual offspring, His reflection, must be effect. The Bible uses the terms “image” and “likeness” to convey this idea. Man shows forth, or reflects, what God is. He is God’s beloved child, male and female, created to express and glorify his Father-Mother. Since God is the one all-knowing Mind, man possesses and reflects unlimited intelligence, understanding, and wisdom. He is the manifestation of all that Mind includes, the conscious recognition and acknowledgment of Mind’s allness. Because the Bible reveals God as Soul, the one infinite individuality, we know that man has no individuality or identity separate from God, but includes by reflection all that constitutes the divine identity. This individuality is purely spiritual because God is Spirit, and man is His likeness. Since Spirit is the one true substance, man always expresses the unlimited variety and abundance of Spirit’s ideas, — an inexhaustible resource indeed. Since God is the one and only Life, man, His likeness, must be eternal. He does not have a separate, independent life apart from God, but is the conscious evidence of Life’s ever-present, eternal existence. God’s man is the spiritual likeness of Truth. He is the image of all that constitutes reality, the conscious manifestation of everything that is true about his Maker. He is the precious offspring of divine Love, tenderly embraced and protected within God’s infinite goodness and abundantly provided for through all eternity. This is the only man there ever was, and you are this man.