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Rh Spirit enter dust, and lose therein the divine nature and omnipotence? Does Mind enter matter, to become there a mortal sinner, animated by the breath of God? I am opposing the validity of matter, not the validity of Spirit, or its creations.

According to Webster's Dictionary the following are some of the equivalents of the term man, in different languages. In the Saxon, mankind, 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: —

In the Fourth Gospel it is declared that all things were made through the Word of God, “and without Him [the logos, or word] was not anything made that was made.”

Everything that is worth making God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful He did not make. In the Science of creation we read that He saw everything that He had made, “and, behold, it was very good.” The 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. But this should not be. Sin, sickness, and death must be rendered as devoid of reality as they are of Truth.

Genesis ii. 9. And out of the ground made the Lord God [Jehovah God] to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight,