OCR Text |
Show CHRLST1 ANSC1ENCE "Adam and Fallen Man", is the Christian (Science Lesson-Sermon for Sunday, May 10. Among the Scriptural references are: '"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness, like-ness, and let them have dominion: domin-ion: . . . . " (Gen. 1: 1, 26). "Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" (Is. 2: 22). "As is the earthly, such are they also that are earthly: and as ! is the heavenly, such are they also I that are heavenly." (I Cor. 15: 48). j The following excerpts are from I Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy: "Spiritually followed, the , book of Genesis is a history of the untrue image of God, named a sinful sin-ful mortal. This deflection of being, rightly viewed, serves to suggest the proper reflection of God and the spiritual actuality of man, as given in the first chapter of Genesis." (p. 502: 9-14). "Popular "Pop-ular theology takes up the history j of man as if he began materially right, but immediately fell into mental sin, whereas revealed religion re-ligion proclaims the Science of Mind and its formations as being ' in accordance with the first chapter chap-ter of the old Testament, when God, Mind, spake and it was done. |