Chapter XV - Genesis
Scientific offspring
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marvellous demonstrations. Christ is the offspring of
marvellous demonstrations. Christ is the offspring of
Spirit, and spiritual existence shows that Spirit creates
neither a wicked nor a mortal man, lapsing into sin, sick-
ness, and death.
Cleansing upheaval
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In Isaiah we read: "I make peace, and create evil. I
In Isaiah we read: "I make peace, and create evil. I
the Lord do all these things;" but the prophet referred to
divine law as stirring up the belief in evil to its
utmost, when bringing it to the surface and re-
ducing it to its common denominator, nothingness. The
muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the
stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms
of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our igno-
rance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought
to know that God's law uncovers so-called sin and its
effects, only that Truth may annihilate all sense of evil
and all power to sin.
Allegiance to Spirit
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Science renders "unto Caesar the things which are
Science renders "unto Caesar the things which are
Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." It
saith to the human sense of sin, sickness, and
death, "God never made you, and you are a
false sense which hath no knowledge of God." The pur-
pose of the Hebrew allegory, representing error as assum-
ing a divine character, is to teach mortals never to believe
a lie.
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Genesis iv. 3, 4. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
Genesis iv. 3, 4. Cain brought of the fruit of the ground
an offering unto the Lord [Jehovah]. And Abel, he also
brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof.
Spiritual and material
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Cain is the type of mortal and material man, conceived
Cain is the type of mortal and material man, conceived
in sin and "shapen in iniquity;" he is not the
type of Truth and Love. Material in origin
and sense, he brings a material offering to God. Abel