Speaking of the Christ he so marvelously represented, Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." In this far-reaching declaration the Master evidently was not referring to mortal existence and intelligence, averred to emanate from matter. He knew of and recognized but one Life, even God, the Father, the self-existent and primal origin of the universe, including man. Hence another statement of his: "I and my Father are one."
Christian Science, based squarely upon the teachings and life practice of the gentle Nazarene, declares God—and none other—to be the primal source or Principle of all creation. The nature of God, Spirit, being altogether good, His offspring, man, is of necessity and naturally good and spiritual. Christians today may rejoice that Christ, Truth, continues to reveal to human consciousness the spiritual fact that man's primitive nature is sinless, beautiful, pure, immortal. Man created by the Father-Mother God in His image and likeness has never deviated from his primary, present, and ultimate state of perfection, because man's original impeccability, individuality, intelligence, and continuity forever remain in God, good.
In Christian Science the line of demarcation is very clearly drawn between man created in God's image, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, and man supposedly created from dust, as recorded in the second chapter. In divine Science spiritual and perfect man is not confused with mortal man. reputed to have been formed from dust or matter. Not even in part does true manhood derive its life from matter or mortal mind. The life-giving, creative power is God. Divine Life is perfect and changeless in quality and infinite in quantity. Christ. God's divine manifestation, makes immortal life abundantly and continuously available to humanity today through Christian Science, as it did through Christ Jesus nearly two thousand years ago. There is really no material life, for in that false sense of substance called matter there is no existence, reality, consciousness, or tangibility. Being devoid of the four qualities just mentioned, matter, alias mortal mind, manifestly cannot exist save as a misconception arising from illusion.
