A Poignant scene is described in the eleventh chapter of John. Two sisters, Mary and Martha, are grieving for their brother, who has died. Then word comes that their friend, Christ Jesus, is approaching. Martha rises and goes to meet the Master, and their ensuing conversation unfolds great truths which everyone needs to understand. Martha speaks of resurrection as something which will happen in the future—"at the last day." But Jesus corrects her. Referring to the Christ, the true idea of sonship, he says, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live."
Mary Baker Eddy throws light on this memorable dialogue in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" where she writes (p. 292): "Truth will be to us 'the resurrection and the life' only as it destroys all error and the belief that Mind, the only immortality of man, can be fettered by the body, and Life be controlled by death. A sinful, sick, and dying mortal is not the likeness of God, the perfect and eternal." Great comfort is found by those who understand through Christian Science that man, the spiritual likeness of God, dwells in Mind instead of in flesh and that his life is unconquerable—deathless. The coming and going of flesh, seemingly important to our present human sense of being, never touch or affect in any way the man of God's making. In Truth every identity exists eternally. The continuity of man's individual being was demonstrated by Christ Jesus when he raised Lazarus from the dead.
Divine Mind's image coexists with Mind. Christian Science turns us from the contemplation of an earthly body, animated by mortal thought, to the true view of man— Life's immortal expression of existence. The Christian Scientist learns to seek for man in Mind, to gain there a true view of himself and of others. Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 129): "We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things."
