dust, and lose therein the divine nature and omnipotence? Does Mind, God, enter matter, to become there a mortal sinner, animated by the breath of God? The validity of matter is herein opposed, not the validity of Spirit, or its creations. Man represents God; mankind represents the Adamic race, and is a human, not a divine, creation.
The following are some of the equivalents of the term man, in different languages. In the Saxon, mankind, Definitions of man. a woman, any one; in the Welsh, that which rises up, — the primary sense being image, form; in the Hebrew, image, similitude; in the Icelandic, mind. The following translation is from the Icelandic:
And God said: “Let Us make man after Our Mind and Our likeness;” and God shaped man after His Mind; after God's Mind shaped He him; and He shaped them male and female.
In the Gospel of John it is declared that all things were made through the Word of God, “and without Him No baneful creation. [the logos, or word] was not anything made that was made.” Everything good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make. In the Science of Genesis we read, that He saw everything which He had made, “and, behold, it was very good.” The corporeal senses declare otherwise; and the Scriptural record of sin and death favors this conclusion, if we give the same heed to the history of error as to the records of Truth. This should not be. Sin, sickness, and death must be deemed as devoid of reality as they are of Truth.
Genesis ii. 9. And out of the ground made the Lord God
[Jehovah] to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight,