Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.—2 John, 9, 10.
The question that now confronts us, is this: What is this "doctrine of Christ," in which we must abide, to have both the Father and the Son?
Nineteen hundred years ago Christ came to the human consciousness in the form of the flesh. The mission of Jesus, the Christ, was to reveal to poor, body-sick, soul-sick, suffering humanity the unreality of evil, sin, disease, and death. He opened his career, how? The priesthood, the rabbis, the lawyers, and the doctors at that time represented the highest intellectuality, the greatest intelligence of the times, the same as they are generally looked upon now by those resting in the belief of a corporeal God, and the reality of sin, sickness, suffering, and death; and yet Jesus, at the age of only twelve years, was found in the Temple arguing with the wise and learned men who "were astonished at his understanding and answers."
