Responsive Reading: Isaiah 43 : 1; Isaiah 45 : 5, 8, 10, 12, 13, 22

1.     But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

5.     I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me.

8.     Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

10.     Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?

12.     I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

13.     I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways.

22.     Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

1. Genesis 1 : 1, 10, 12, 16, 18 (and God), 21, 25, 26 (to :), 27, 31 (to 1st .)

1     In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

10     And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

12     And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

16     And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

18     …and God saw that it was good.

21     And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

25     And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

26     And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

27     So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

31     And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.

2. Genesis 2 : 6-9, 19, 21-23

6     But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

7     And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8     And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

9     And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

19     And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

21     And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22     And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23     And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

3. Genesis 6 : 1, 5 (God)

1     And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,

5     God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

4. Isaiah 60 : 2, 4 (to 1st :)

2     For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

4     Lift up thine eyes round about, and see:

5. Isaiah 11 : 9

9     They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

6. Deuteronomy 4 : 7 (the) (to things), 15 (to ;), 16-19, 32 (since) (to 3rd ,), 35, 36 (to :), 39

7     …the Lord our God is in all things…

15     Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves;

16     Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

17     The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

18     The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

19     And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

32     …since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is,

35     Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.

36     Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee:

39     Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

7. John 8 : 1, 2, 12, 19, 38, 42-44, 46, 47 (to :)

1     Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.

2     And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

12     Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

19     Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

38     I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

42     Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43     Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

44     Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

46     Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

47     He that is of God heareth God’s words:

8. I John 4 : 4 (to 2nd ,), 6 (to ;)

4     Ye are of God, little children,

6     We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us;

9. I John 5 : 4 (to :), 18

4     For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world:

18     We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

10. Hebrews 1 : 8 (Thy), 10

8     Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

10     And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

1. 331 : 11 (God) only, 18 (He)-22 (to ,)

God is All-in-all.

He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self-existence. He is all-inclusive, and is reflected by all that is real and eternal and by nothing else. He fills all space,

2. 339 : 7 (Since)-8

Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness.

3. 525 : 17-29

In the Gospel of John, 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 good or worthy, God made. Whatever is valueless or baneful, He did not make, — hence its unreality. In the Science of Genesis we read that He saw everything which He had made, "and, behold, it was very good." The corporeal senses declare otherwise; and if we give the same heed to the history of error as to the records of truth, the Scriptural record of sin and death favors the false conclusion of the material senses. Sin, sickness, and death must be deemed as devoid of reality as they are of good, God.

4. 262 : 27-28 (to 2nd .), 30-32

The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin. To begin rightly is to end rightly. …     Divine Mind is the only cause or Principle of existence. Cause does not exist in matter, in mortal mind, or in physical forms.

5. 521 : 26-2

The second chapter of Genesis contains a statement of this material view of God and the universe, a statement which is the exact opposite of scientific truth as before recorded. The history of error or matter, if veritable, would set aside the omnipotence of Spirit; but it is the false history in contradistinction to the true.

6. 119 : 1-16

When we endow matter with vague spiritual power, — that is, when we do so in our theories, for of course we cannot really endow matter with what it does not and cannot possess, — we disown the Almighty, for such theories lead to one of two things. They either presuppose the self-evolution and self-government of matter, or else they assume that matter is the product of Spirit. To seize the first horn of this dilemma and consider matter as a power in and of itself, is to leave the creator out of His own universe; while to grasp the other horn of the dilemma and regard God as the creator of matter, is not only to make Him responsible for all disasters, physical and moral, but to announce Him as their source, thereby making Him guilty of maintaining perpetual misrule in the form and under the name of natural law.

7. 522 : 30-31, 32-1

Does the creator condemn His own creation? ...It cannot be so.

8. 230 : 11-18

It would be contrary to our highest ideas of God to suppose Him capable of first arranging law and causation so as to bring about certain evil results, and then punishing the helpless victims of His volition for doing what they could not avoid doing. Good is not, cannot be, the author of experimental sins. God, good, can no more produce sickness than goodness can cause evil and health occasion disease.

9. 207 : 9-14, 20-26

We must learn that evil is the awful deception and unreality of existence. Evil is not supreme; good is not helpless; nor are the so-called laws of matter primary, and the law of Spirit secondary. Without this lesson, we lose sight of the perfect Father, or the divine Principle of man.

There is but one primal cause. Therefore there can be no effect from any other cause, and there can be no reality in aught which does not proceed from this great and only cause. Sin, sickness, disease, and death belong not to the Science of being. They are the errors, which presuppose the absence of Truth, Life, or Love.

10. 356 : 19-23

God is as incapable of producing sin, sickness, and death as He is of experiencing these errors. How then is it possible for Him to create man subject to this triad of errors, -— man who is made in the divine likeness?

11. 357 : 7-13 (to ;)

Jesus said of personified evil, that it was "a liar, and the father of it." Truth creates neither a lie, a capacity to lie, nor a liar. If mankind would relinquish the belief that God makes sickness, sin, and death, or makes man capable of suffering on account of this malevolent triad, the foundations of error would be sapped and error's destruction ensured;

12. 554 : 24 (Jesus)-28

Jesus never intimated that God made a devil, but he did say, "Ye are of your father, the devil." All these sayings were to show that mind in matter is the author of itself, and is simply a falsity and illusion.

13. 469 : 13 (The)-17

The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite Mind — called devil or evil — is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelligence or reality.

14. 513 : 27-6

So-called mortal mind — being non-existent and consequently not within the range of immortal existence — could not by simulating deific power invert the divine creation, and afterwards recreate persons or things upon its own plane, since nothing exists beyond the range of all-inclusive infinity, in which and of which God is the sole creator.

15. 583 : 20 (to .), 24-25

Creator. …God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself.

16. 264 : 13-20

As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible. When we realize that Life is Spirit, never in nor of matter, this understanding will expand into self-completeness, finding all in God, good, and needing no other consciousness.

Spirit and its formations are the only realities of being.

17. 521 : 5-6

All that is made is the work of God, and all is good.