IN studying the life and works of Christ Jesus in the light of Christian Science, we discover that all his efforts were directed towards presenting his knowledge of God and the real man to humanity. Unlike philosophers of the past and present searching for man's origin in matter and hopelessly defeated in their search, Christ Jesus, looking beyond matter, with the natural spiritual perception of the Son of God, placed man forever at his eternal source, in and of the Father.
Jesus was undeceived by the commonly accepted belief that man is material and finite, by medical laws declaring incurable certain diseases, or by ecclesiastical pronouncements of some cases of sin as being beyond redemption. He healed the sick and lifted the burden of condemnation for sin by penetrating the veil of a false material sense, and discovering man as God created him, in his original spiritual perfection. His unparalleled understanding of the perfect man in God's image overcame the beliefs of the flesh, raised him from the tomb, and enabled him, finally, to ascend out of mortal sight. No wonder he could say (John 17:3), "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."
John the Baptist proclaimed (John 3:36), "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life." What light, joy, and expansion these words open up to us! What emancipation they promise! "The Son" but awaits recognition, for God's immortal idea which Jesus presented has never been withdrawn, but is ever present to be understood and demonstrated. On page 361 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy speaks of "the Son" thus: "Christ, as the true spiritual idea, is the ideal of God now and forever, here and everywhere."
