"BELOVED, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." In this arresting message from John, which is the second of three verses from his first epistle read at our Sunday services as a correlative passage to "the scientific statement of being" from the Christian Science textbook (p. 468), we have an epitomized statement of Christian Science as it is presented in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
"Now are we the sons of God"! This statement declares the truth of our being, of our perfection. It says what man is: the perfect son of the perfect God; the spiritual son of God, Spirit; the intelligent son of God, infinite divine Mind; the harmonious son of God, who is divine Love, harmony's very selfhood.
Since we are now in our real being the sons of God, we certainly are not something that is one day going to be the son of God. This nowness of what we are, admits of no present or future state of being which can deny our perfection by claiming that we are mortals, or deny our sonship with the Father by asserting that we are the children of men.
