We are not dust people!

A twice yearly Bible lesson we read from the Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lessons is called Adam and Fallen Man. Each lesson has unique inspiration and this one delves into the Adam and Eve story of Genesis 2, which points out a mythical and erroneous view of creation.

Jesus taught that man is God’s image and likeness—the Genesis 1 view of God's creation—and he demonstrated it for us by healing sickness, wrong behavior and even death. Here are some verses from Genesis 1:

1   In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2   And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3   And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4   And God saw the light, that it was good: ...
26  ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
31  And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. ...

From the Bible, Genesis 1:1–4 (to :), 26–28, 31 (to 1st .)

Jesus, in his life and teachings, showed us how we can all rise above Genesis 2 mythology, about the Adam-man made from dust, and discover our real Christlike being as God’s beloved child—UNfallen, perfect and eternal!