"YE believe in God, believe also in me," said Jesus (John 14:1). What is this "me" which the Master acknowledged as his true selfhood? None but the Christ, which Mary Baker Eddy defines in the textbook of Christian Science as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583).
Christ and God are inseparable. Where the Father is, there is His manifestation, the Christ. Any attempt to separate God and Christ results in one's having a theoretical God and an impotent Christ, as illustrated by the world's belief in a crucified Saviour whose power to heal and to save was not transferred to his followers. Christ, the eternal, ever-living Saviour for all men, could no more be crucified than could God. Jesus' life and resurrection demonstrated the verity of this fact.
Mrs. Eddy, who through her own healing proved that the Christ, God's manifestation, is ever with mankind, has written with great depth of understanding (ibid., p. 332): "Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual, —yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death." Draw close to this compassionate, never-absent, ever-operative divine influence of God, known in Christian Science as the Christ! Feel its dearness and nearness, hear its divine message, experience its saving grace!
