Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God. Our bread, 'which cometh down from heaven,' is Truth. Our cup is the cross; our wine the inspiration of Love" (Science and Health, p. 35).
"Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep" (I Corinthians, 11:27).
While we all admit the infallibility of the common interpretation of it. Our creeds are but so many varying interpretations of the Bible; our orthodoxy is but the most commonly accepted interpretation of the day; our heresy is often the interpretation of the morrow. The Bible remains the same infallible Bible, but the interpretations are broadening with the dawn. We bring to the reading of any book the lens of our own mentality, and through this lens we read. What we look for, that we find. Searching for death in the Bible is one thing. Searching for life in the Bible is quite another thing. It was not Jesus' death but his life that made Christianity a vital factor in civilization. It was not his crucifixion, but his resurrection that illuminated the atonement.
