"To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." These words of Paul (Rom. 8:6) would seem to indicate that death is not something over which men have no control, but that it is intimately connected with their mortal consciousness, or material way of thinking; in fact, that it is part of it.
The Bible records Moses as saying (Deut. 30: 19), "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live." Let us see, then, in the light of these words in what way mortals can exercise an influence on the outcome of their individual experience.
Christian Science reveals that God is Life and that God is All; therefore all is Life. Hence death is but a false belief, an illusion. It behooves each of us to grow out of that illusion by eradicating from consciousness any thought which would deny the allness of Life. We are helped in so doing by understanding that the only real basis of existence is spiritual and that what seems to be our material existence is but a dream of material sense.
