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Put On the Undivided Garment

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Announcements › Forums › Adam and Fallen Man – May 6th, 2018 › Put On the Undivided Garment

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  • May 1, 2018 at 11:23 am #6432
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    “[P]ut off … the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts….[P]ut on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness” (Eph. 4:22,24).

    Growth in Christian Science involves my putting off sense and putting on Soul: putting off the animal and putting on the spiritual. This week’s lesson underscores this requirement, quoting the last words of Moses, exhorting the people to put off death and put on life.

    Genesis speaks of “the old man”, the old Adam, as clothed in animal skin (3:21), in other words, governed by material senses. The Book of Revelation speaks of putting on “the new man” as a bride puts on a wedding garment that contains not a single fiber of animal origin whatsoever: “And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (Rev. 19:7-8). This is the spiritual meaning of Deuteronomy 22:11 – “Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together.”

    “We must seek the undivided garment, the whole Christ, as our first proof of Christianity, for Christ, Truth, alone can furnish us with absolute evidence” (SH 142:7).

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