NOVEMBER 4–10, 2024

Adam and Fallen Man

GOLDEN TEXT

Psalms 37:37

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

RESPONSIVE READING

Isaiah 43:1 now, 6, 7, 10, 21; Psalms 100:1–5; 67:5

Isa. 43:1 . . . now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;

7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

10 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and

understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

21 This people have I formed for my‐ self; they shall shew forth my praise.

Ps. 100:1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we our‐ selves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiv‐ ing, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is ev‐ erlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

67:5 Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

SECTION 1

1 | Genesis1:1,3,4(to:),26,27,31(to1st.)

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

3 And God said, Let there be light: and therewaslight. 4AndGodsawthelight, that it was good:

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26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over ev‐ ery creeping thing that creepeth upon theearth. 27SoGodcreatedmaninhis own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

2 | Romans 8:16

16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

1 | 339:8–9
God, Spirit, alone created all, and

called it good.

2 | 356:24–25, 30 (only, to .)

Does God create a material man out of Himself, Spirit? Does evil proceed from good?

Does subsequent follow its an‐ tecedent? It does.

3 | 306:30
God’s man, spiritually created, is not

material and mortal.

4 | 475:7
The Scriptures inform

Fleshly factors unreal

us that man is made in the
image and likeness of God. Matter is not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science. 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 be‐ longs to his Maker.

SECTION 2 The Bible

3 | Genesis 2:1, 6–8, 21, 22

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 7AndtheLordGodformedman of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and

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manbecamealivingsoul. 8AndtheLord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the fleshinsteadthereof; 22Andtherib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Science and Health

5 | 519:7–16
Genesis ii. 1. Thus the heavens and the earth

were finished, and all the host of them.

Thus the ideas of God in Infinity universal being are complete measureless and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and mother‐ hood of Love. Human capacity is slow to discern and to grasp God’s creation and the divine power and presence which go with it, demonstrating its spiritual origin. Mortals can never know the infinite, until they throw off the old man and reach the spiritual image and likeness.

6 | 523:14

It may be worth while
here to remark that, according
to the best scholars, there are clear evi‐ dences of two distinct documents in the early part of the book of Genesis. One is called the Elohistic, because the Supreme

Being is therein called Elohim. The other document is called the Jehovistic, be‐ cause Deity therein is always called Jeho‐ vah, — or Lord God, as our common ver‐ sion translates it.

7 | 521:21–29
Genesis ii. 6. But there went up a mist from the

earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. The Science and truth of The story

of error

Distinct documents

the divine creation have been
presented in the verses already consid‐ ered, and now the opposite error, a mate‐ rial view of creation, is to be set forth. The second chapter of Genesis contains a statement of this material view of God and the universe, a statement which is the exact opposite of scientific truth as before recorded.

8 | 522:3

The Science of the first
record proves the falsity of
the second. If one is true, the other is false, for they are antagonistic. The first record assigns all might and government to God, and endows man out of God’s perfection and power. The second record chronicles man as mutable and mortal, — as having broken away from Deity and as revolving in an orbit of his own. Existence, separate from divinity, Science explains as impossible.

The two records

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9 | 556:17–20 (to 1st .)

Did the origin and the enlightenment of the race come from the deep sleep which fell upon Adam? Sleep is darkness, but God’s creative mandate was, “Let there be light.”

10 | 249:5 (only)
Let the “male and female” of God’s

creating appear.

SECTION 3 The Bible

4 | Genesis 3:1–6, 13, 17

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eatofeverytreeofthegarden? 2Andthe woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lestyedie. 4Andtheserpentsaidunto thewoman,Yeshallnotsurelydie: 5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good andevil. 6Andwhenthewomansaw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of

the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent be‐ guiled me, and I did eat.

17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

5 | Jeremiah 17:7, 8

7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

6 |

II Corinthians 11:3 I fear

3 I fear, lest by any means, as the ser‐ pent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

7 |

Isaiah 2:22

22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be ac‐ counted of?

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11 | 529:21–27

treasures of Truth and Love are enlarged. Mortals must gravitate Godward, their af‐ fections and aims grow spiritual, — they must near the broader interpretations of being, and gain some proper sense of the infinite, — in order that sin and mortality may be put off.

This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man en‐ larged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.

SECTION 4 The Bible

Whence comes a talking,
lying serpent to tempt the
children of divine Love? The serpent en‐ ters into the metaphor only as evil. We have nothing in the animal kingdom which represents the species described, — a talking serpent, — and should rejoice that evil, by whatever figure presented, contradicts itself and has neither origin nor support in Truth and good.

12 | 216:18

The great mistake of mortals is to sup‐ pose that man, God’s image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both good and evil.

13 | 285:7
What, then, is the material

The human counterfeit

8 |

Matthew 1:18–23

personality which suffers, sins,
and dies? It is not man, the image and likeness of God, but man’s counterfeit, the inverted likeness, the unlikeness called sin, sickness, and death. The unre‐ ality of the claim that a mortal is the true image of God is illustrated by the oppo‐ site natures of Spirit and matter, Mind and body, for one is intelligence while the other is non-intelligence.

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child oftheHolyGhost. 19ThenJosephher husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was mind‐ edtoputherawayprivily. 20Butwhilehe thought on these things, behold, the an‐ gel of the Lord appeared unto him in
a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is oftheHolyGhost. 21Andsheshallbring

14 | 265:3–15
Man understands spiritual

existence in proportion as his

Godward gravitation

Mythical serpent

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forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from theirsins. 22Nowallthiswasdone,thatit might be fulfilled which was spoken of theLordbytheprophet,saying, 23Be‐ hold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpret‐ ed is, God with us.

9 | Luke 2:40

40 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

10 | Ephesians 4:7 unto, 13

7 unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the mea‐ sure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

11 | Romans 8:1

1 There is therefore now no condem‐ nation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

or error; and the Apostle Paul explains this warfare between the idea of divine power,whichJesuspresented,and mythological material intelligence called energy and opposed to Spirit.

16 | 360:13

Science and Health

15 | 534:12 The
The Son of the Virgin-mother

unfolded the remedy for Adam,

Spirit and flesh

Dear reader, which
mind-picture or externalized
thought shall be real to you, — the materi‐ al or the spiritual? Both you cannot have. You are bringing out your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you try to have two models, then you practically have none. Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the real and the unreal.

17 | 259:6

In divine Science, man is the true im‐ age of God. The divine nature was best expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw upon mortals the truer reflection of God and lifted their lives higher than their poor thought-models would allow, — thoughts which presented man as fallen, sick, sinning, and dying. The Christlike un‐ derstanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea, — perfect God and perfect man, — as the basis of thought and demonstra‐ tion.

Choose ye to-day

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18 | 333:19–23
Throughout all generations

both before and after the
Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea, — the reflection of God, — has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth.

SECTION 5 The Bible

12 | Acts 10:38 God

38 God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

13 | Luke 13:11–17

11 And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could innowiseliftupherself. 12AndwhenJe‐ sus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thineinfirmity. 13Andhelaidhishands on her: and immediately she was made straight,andglorifiedGod. 14Andthe ruler of the synagogue answered with in‐ dignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath

day. 15TheLordthenansweredhim,and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? 16Andoughtnotthiswoman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Sa‐ tan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? 17Andwhenhehadsaidthese things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glo‐ rious things that were done by him.

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19 | 482:19–23

Jesus was the highest human concept of the perfect man. He was inseparable from Christ, the Messiah, — the divine idea of God outside the flesh. This en‐ abled Jesus to demonstrate his control over matter.

20 | 476:32–5

Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy.

The divine Principle and idea

21 | 171:4
Through discernment of the

spiritual opposite of materiality,

Paradise regained

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even the way through Christ, Truth, man will reopen with the key of divine Science the gates of Paradise which human beliefs have closed, and will find himself unfallen, upright, pure, and free, not needing to consult almanacs for the probabilities ei‐ ther of his life or of the weather, not needing to study brainology to learn how much of a man he is.

SECTION 6 The Bible

14 | Psalms 4:6 Lord
6 Lord, lift thou up the light of thy

countenance upon us.

15 | Psalms 17:6 (to :), 15

6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God:

15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

16 | I Corinthians 15:22, 48, 49
22 For as in Adam all die, even so in

Christ shall all be made alive.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also

that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

17| IJohn3:2,3

2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall seehimasheis. 3Andeverymanthat hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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22 | 90:24–25

The admission to one’s self that man is God’s own likeness sets man free to mas‐ ter the infinite idea.

23 | 476:17–22

Mortality is finally swallowed up in im‐ mortality. Sin, sickness, and death must disappear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal man.

Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood.

24 | 407:24
Let the perfect model

Immortal memory

be present in your thoughts
instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness.

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25 | 497:5

We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowl‐ edge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.

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