Man without identity would be indefinite—indistinct and indistinguishable. Without individuality man's existence would be monotonous, lacking the freshness and spontaneity that characterize the activity of Spirit. However, man does have real identity and individuality, because God is his Mind and Life.
Christ Jesus understood the importance of true identification. He consistently rejected the human sense of things and declared the oneness, or unity, of his real self with the Father. Referring to this, he said to the doubting Pharisees (John 8:2:5), "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world."
Individual spiritual man is not of this world. In Christian Science we learn that the human estimate of man does not apply to us as the sons of God. Therefore, this understanding leads us to cease identifying ourselves as mortals. In our real nature we have definite identity as man, the manifestation of Mind, because we are, scientifically speaking, Godlike in quality. As Mind's highest ideas, forever identical with God in quality, we all naturally come within that one generic and all-embracing classification of ideas, the family name for which is man. Consequently, we can never be other than what we are, namely, man.
