In the book of Job we find this question: "If a man die, shall he live again?" and in the eleventh chapter of John we read these words of Jesus spoken at the grave of Lazarus: "Take ye away the stone." The question of Job was fully answered by this statement of our Master, and in answer to the doubt expressed by Martha concerning his ability to overcome the mortal and corruptible, he uttered these wonderful words: "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
These three questions have ever confronted mankind: Why am I here? Whence came I? Whither do I go? So far as mortals are governed by the five material senses, with all the attached belief of brain intelligence, they are as far from a correct answer to these questions as savages of the jungle. In Jesus' teachings, as explained in Christian Science, is to be found the only right answer to the question of Job. Jesus taught that real Life knows no death, and scientifically proved it by the resurrection of Lazarus and others. If therefore we hope to see the fulfilment of his words, and to realize the hope of our prayer that God's kingdom may come and His will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, we must lay hold upon something better than Job's account of man born of a woman.
We may well be thankful that although we have spent years in studying the account of mortal man, it is possible for us also to know something about the man of whom the psalmist says that he is created "a little lower than the angels," and is crowned "with glory and honor." Is not this mortal sense of existence in which mankind so strongly believes the stone that is to be taken away? This wrong sense of existence must indeed be taken away before we can see the risen Christ.
