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The divine demand

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Announcements › Forums › Soul – February 18th, 2018 › The divine demand

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  • February 14, 2018 at 10:36 am #5976
    Susanne
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    “The divine demand, “Be ye therefore perfect,” is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable…” (S&H, 7.)

    I don’t think I ever read that this was a divine demand!

    Demand in the 1828 dictionary: “To ask by authority; to require; to seek or claim an answer by virtue of a right or supposed right in the interrogator, derived from his office, station, power or authority.”

    Matthew Henry states: “Note, It is the duty of Christians to desire, and aim at, and press toward a perfection in grace and holiness … And therein we must study to conform ourselves to the example of our heavenly Father.”

    So… not only is it a requirement and a duty, but we must claim our present perfection! Mary Baker Eddy certainly shows us how to do this.

    February 14, 2018 at 11:36 am #5977
    Florence
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    Whatever Mrs. Eddy repeats and emphasizes must be a demand. She repeatedly states “Stick to the Truth of Being.” SH What is this Truth of Being? Our spiritual individuality, that we are the spiritual image and likeness of God (See Glossary def’n of Man p.591)

    SH 91 : 16-21 Absorbed in material selfhood we discern and reflect but faintly the substance of Life or Mind. The denial of material selfhood aids the discernment of man’s spiritual and eternal individuality, and destroys the erroneous knowledge gained from matter or through what are termed the material senses.

    I do not remember this being an imperative requirement to me earlier in my study; so to a large extent I was merely improving matter?
    Only as I consistently rejoice in my “New Birth,” as the Christ idea, can I gain the true sense of my perfection. The perfect man Jesus beheld is the spiritual man, that which is the reflection of all that God is. Mortal selfhood can never be that perfection, that expression of Soul.

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