The Bible records God's promises of freedom from sin, disease, and death. How often the heart weighted by woe asks this question: "Are God's promises for me?" Christian Science declares that God's promises are for all mankind. Fulfillment takes place in human experience as we grow in spiritual understanding of our real selfhood, made in the image and likeness of God, and as we are obedient to spiritual law, which requires the acknowledgment of God's eternal goodness as the only reality.
It is helpful to consider prayerfully the degree of understanding and obedience practiced by Abraham when God promised him that he would be (Rom. 4:20, 21), "He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform." Abraham's reliance on God and his willingness to give to God the glory due His name resulted in fulfillment of the promise.
Christ Jesus demonstrated the fulfillment of God's promises by his healing works. He was able to do this because he acknowledged God as the only Mind and understood the real man to be the creation of God, never expressed in or through matter. Mary Baker Eddy knew that the comfort and hope inherent in the Master's words and works were for all mankind, in all times, and under all circumstances. In reference to Jesus' God-appointed mission to prove the supremacy of spiritual law and the unreality of material law, Mrs. Eddy makes this statement in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 328, 329): "The purpose of his great life-work extends through time and includes universal humanity. Its Principle is infinite, reaching beyond the pale of a single period or of a limited following."
