Reply To: Heavens and earth were finished

[Gary]

This was discussed briefly in our Roundtable last week. The “mist” coming up from the earth is the materialism that clouds our vision. When we put faith in what we see with our eyes or hear with our ears, we “see” things upside down and backwards. We totally miss the spiritual reality of things. It is only through our spiritual sense that we can see anything clearly.

I thank Mrs. Eddy for explaining that this is what the entire second chapter of Genesis is all about. A fantasy picture of creation seen through the mist of material belief. That is why she calls it a myth. None of it is true. And the result of such clouded vision is that women shall experience pain and sorrow in childbirth and men are doomed to till the ground until they die. All of this is untrue.

The Bible section finishes with John’s explanation that God sent Jesus “that the world through him might be saved.” It occurred to me that this “saving” is the clearing of our vision so that we might see things as they really are – spiritual, healthy, painless, sinless, diseaseless, and deathless.

Jesus would not have told us to “be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” if it weren’t possible (and true).