Through his example of loving constancy to God, Christ Jesus pointed the way of absolute security and freedom from belief in old age and its attendant inadequacies. His wise and tender prayer (Luke 22: 42), "Not my will, but thine, be done," prepared the way for his resurrection. Thence it led to his ascension and to the permanent exclusion of the beliefs of time and age from his experience.
Of divine wisdom the writer of Proverbs says (3:16), "Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour." Inseparable from divine intelligence, God's man knows continuous, harmonious being. He does not pass through various stages of development from infancy to decadent and insecure old age. He is as ageless as God, his ageless Maker. For, like God, man lives in eternity, not in time. He expresses the sustained strength, power, and holiness of infinite Mind.
After quoting the opening sentence of the Bible (Gen. 1:1), "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 502, 503): "The infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only,—that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, including the universe. The creative Principle—Life, Truth, and Love—is God. The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected."
