While studying the weekly Lesson-Sermon, a student of Christian Science found herself reading and rereading this statement on page 333 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "Throughout all generations both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea,—the reflection of God,—has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptized these seers in the divine nature, the essence of Love."
God and His idea, Christ, are eternal and unchanging. Thus the student reasoned that a study of the glorious glimpses which the Hebrew leaders and prophets caught of Truth would help her to acquire a better understanding of God and thus enable her to be baptized in the divine nature.
The story of Abraham's intended sacrifice of his son, Isaac, taught her how great was Abraham's faith and how implicit his obedience to his highest sense of God's demands. These were rewarded by the revelation of God as Life, who does not require one man to slay another in order to worship Him, but rather demands a life of unquestioned faith, obedience, and love.
