JESUS met with opposition because he came teaching and demonstrating that which was contrary to human experience. He declared the existence of that which material eyes could not see nor ears hear. "His master was Spirit; their master was matter," Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health, p. 52). His teachings enraged the carnal mind of his time, just as does a declaration of spiritual truth today, and as it ever will.
Our Leader has pointed out, and all who have demonstrated Christian Science have proven, that the carnal mind is opposed to God, good. The religious teachers of Jesus' time could not understand the teachings of the Master, because they reasoned from the evidence presented by the material senses. They could not conceive of a power which did not partake of the nature of these senses. When Jesus told them that they had eyes but could not see, ears but could not hear, he did not mean that they were blind or deaf in the commonly accepted sense of those terms; but he was trying, as he always did, to lift thought above the material belief of hearing and sight to a discernment of the truth that man is spiritual, and that his sense cannot therefore be material, but is spiritual; that life is not dependent on matter.
That Paul apprehended this teaching of the Master is evidenced by his statement that "the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal;" and with him Christian Science defines as real only that which is eternal. Paul saw that to demonstrate the teachings of the Master the disciples must depend upon the evidence of things unseen by the material senses. No one can give credence to the five material senses and believe in the truth of the commonly accepted material theories, and at the same time demonstrate Christian Science. In reading the accounts of the miracles of Jesus we find that his every proof of the power of God was a direct contradiction of the evidence of these senses. The people marveled at his power and called his demonstrations miracles, but to Jesus, in the words of our Leader, these acts were "divinely natural" (Science and Health, p. 44).
