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Following the example set by the question-and-answer columns in the early Journals, when Mary Baker Eddy was Editor, this column will respond to general queries from Journal readers with responses from Journal readers. 

If there was no incorporeal Jesus of Nazareth, is there an incorporeal me? Where is Jesus now?

From the July 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Q: In Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Jesus could give his temporal life into his enemies’ hands; but when his earth-mission was accomplished, his spiritual life, indestructible and eternal, was found forever the same” (p. 51). 

In Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, she writes, “There was no incorporeal Jesus of Nazareth” (p. 162). If there was no incorporeal Jesus of Nazareth, is there an incorporeal me (fill in your name)? How do we square the two statements of Mrs. Eddy, and how would we answer the question “Where is Jesus now?” These two statements seem contradictory.
  —A reader in Ohio, US

A: Yes, there is an incorporeal you. You are unique, beautiful, perfect in every way, God’s likeness, Life’s reflection. It is the only you there is.  

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