Throughout his selfless, compassionate ministry, his healing of sin, disease, and death, Christ Jesus corrected the erroneous concept of Deity as a vengeful Jehovah, and revealed the nature of God as the loving creator, as "our Father which art in heaven," as the Giver of all good, who has no condemnation for His children. In the Gospel according to John we read, "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved." Yet, according to the records, the immaculate Way-shower unhesitatingly condemned evil whenever it confronted him, overthrowing the tables of the money-changers in the temple, and scathingly rebuking Pharisaical hypocrisy.
Such seeming unconformity was not fully explained till Mrs. Eddy, through her discovery of Christian Science, revealed and elucidated the fundamental distinction between Spirit and matter, between spiritual man and mortals—a distinction which is in accord with the teaching of our Master. In his interview with Nicodemus, the Master made it plain that until mortals individually discern this vital distinction they cannot realize the kingdom of God and man's divine inheritance of good. He said: "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." Nicodemus, somewhat puzzled, replied with the question which may have found an echo in the hearts of some earnest thinkers and sincere Christians, "How can these things be?"
The correct and therefore demonstrable answer to this question has been revealed to mankind by Mrs. Eddy in her great work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." According to her inspired elucidations in this textbook, the real man, created in the divine image and likeness, always has been, and will be throughout eternity, perfect and spiritual. He is not separated from God, nor does he cease for a moment to express the divine Mind and nature. He is heir to all that is beautiful, good, and true, and for him there is no condemnation.
