Christ Jesus came to the world to show mortals how to overcome evil. He destroyed sin, disease, and death, the age-old foes of mankind. But the spiritual barrenness of the priests, rabbis, and others of his time prevented them from understanding the divine Principle underlying his mighty works. Because of their material-mindedness they could not see that his works were the natural result of his understanding of God as omnipotent Mind, the All-in-all, and of man as the perfect expression of this perfect Mind.
To Jesus, there was no mystery connected with his so-called miracles. He was ever conscious of his oneness with the Father, and understood the divine healing Principle to be God, for he said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30), and, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works" (John 14:10). In the Preface to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy says (p. xi): "Now, as then, these mighty works are not supernatural, but supremely natural. They are the sign of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness and repeating itself, coming now as was promised aforetime,
To preach deliverance to the captives [of sense],
And recovering of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty them that are bruised."
