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QA 14 of 24. The subtitles for this question are listed below. 

1. Question. — What is man?
2. Fleshly factors unreal
3. Man unfallen
4. Mortals are not immortals
5. Identity - Imperishable identity
6. Kingdom - the kingdom within
7. Body - material body never God's idea

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  	Question. — What is man? 

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  	Question. — What is man? 
 6	Answer. — Man is not matter; he is not made up of
  	brain, blood, bones, and other material elements. The
  	Scriptures inform us that man is made in	                                     Fleshly
 9	the image and likeness of God. Matter is	                                     factors unreal 
  	not that likeness. The likeness of Spirit cannot be so
  	unlike Spirit. Man is spiritual and perfect; and be-
12	cause he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so under-
  	stood in Christian Science. Man is idea, the image, of
  	Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of
15	God, including all right ideas; the generic term for
  	all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious
  	identity of being as found in Science, in which man is
18	the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal;
  	that which has no separate mind from God; that which
  	has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which
21	possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his
  	own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker. 
  	    And God said: "Let us make man in our image, after
24	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
27	creepeth upon the earth." 
  	    Man i...s incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The
  	real man cannot depart from holiness, nor	                                 Man
30	can God, by whom man is evolved, engender	                         unfallen 
  	the capacity or freedom to sin. A mortal sinner is not
1	God's man. Mortals are the counterfeits of immortals. 
  	They are the children of the wicked one, or the one evil,
 3	which declares that man begins in dust or as a material
  	embryo. In divine Science, God and the real man are
  	inseparable as divine Principle and idea. 
 6	    Error, urged to its final limits, is self-destroyed. 
  	Error will cease to claim that soul is in body, that life
  	and intelligence are in matter, and that	                                      Mortals are
 9	this matter is man. God is the Principle of	                              not immortals 
  	man, and man is the idea of God. Hence man is not
  	mortal nor material. Mortals will disappear, and im-
12	mortals, or the children of God, will appear as the only
  	and eternal verities of man. Mortals are not fallen chil-
  	dren of God. They never had a perfect state of being,
15	which may subsequently be regained. They were, from
  	the beginning of mortal history, "conceived in sin and
  	brought forth in iniquity." Mortality is finally swallowed
18	up in immortality. Sin, sickness, and death must dis-
  	appear to give place to the facts which belong to immortal
  	man. 
21	    Learn this, O mortal, and earnestly seek the spiritual
  	status of man, which is outside of all material selfhood. 
  	Remember that the Scriptures say of mortal	                                   Imperishable
24	man: "As for man, his days are as grass: as	                                   identity 
  	a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind
  	passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall
27	know it no more." 
  	    When speaking of God's children, not the children of
  	men, Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you;"
30	that is, Truth and Love reign in the real	                                              The kingdom
  	man, showing that man in God's image is	                                      within 
  	unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the per-
 1	fect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal
  	man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour
 3	saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man
  	healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom
  	of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. 
 6	Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself
  	spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect
  	nor material. 
 9	    Whatever is material is mortal. To the five corporeal
  	senses, man appears to be matter and mind united; but
  	Christian Science reveals man as the idea of	                                      Material
12	God, and declares the corporeal senses to be	                              body never
  	mortal and erring illusions. Divine Science	                                      God's idea 
  	shows it to be impossible that a material body, though
15	interwoven with matter's highest stratum, misnamed
  	mind, should be man, — the genuine and perfect man,
  	the immortal idea of being, indestructible and eternal. 
18	Were it otherwise, man would be annihilated. 
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