Father and daughter looked at the boy with wonder and perplexity.
Opening the Bible he read:
"These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were
created in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens."
He continued to the end of the chapter. "Now do you see how different
this account of creation is from the first?" he asked. "Who was the
Lord God who took the dust of the ground and formed man over again,
after God had already created him, and pronounced His work very good?"
The old man shook his head. "I can only say, as I said last Sunday,
Master Carol, in all the sermons I’ve listened to that has never been
explained to me. I don’t think I should have let it slip, if it had.
It’s just the first time I’ve ever known there were two creations."
"There were not really two creations, though it reads as if there were,
because there are not two creators. The sixth verse explains it, ’There
went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.’
That mist covered everything which God-Spirit had created--all the host
of them; birds, beasts, and flowers, mountains, seas, lakes, rivers,
even man: God’s own image and likeness. Because the mist is over
everything we do not see the world and man as they really exist. So
people have come to believe that God made man from the dust; for the
mist that is spoken of is not a mist like we see rising from the sea, or
in the fields of an evening. It means false belief, misunderstanding of
God and His spiritual creation. But, my cousin has told me, there is a
woman in America who once caught a glimpse of God’s real creation as she
was passing through the death valley. And that one glimpse restored her
to health. Then she devoted her whole life to learn more of the truth
that she might teach others how to see through the mist, and to shake
off their old beliefs. She has written a book called _Science and
Health_ with _Key to the Scriptures_, which explains all that she has
discovered. Simply reading and studying that book has made hundreds of
people well."
"Where could we get a copy of it, Master Carol? I’d like to know for my
little girl’s sake," Mrs. Scott asked.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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