In this age the depths of the sea have been penetrated, the stratosphere explored, and the atom split; but there remains a divided, quarrelsome world facing its most basic challenge: the harmonious relationship of men, or peaceful coexistence. The spiritual understanding of God, and of man pre-existent, coexistent, and coeternal with Him, can meet this challenge.
Christ Jesus, through the understanding of his pre-existence with his Father, which he said predated Abraham, proved his coexistence with God, ever-present divine Love, and his coeternality with God, everlasting Life. He explained this fact to his disciples in these words found in the Gospel of John (16:28): "I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father." The immortality of the Master's true identity was thus demonstrated. It was the consciousness of the Christ, his spiritual nature, inseparable from God, which enabled the man Jesus to heal. With meekness and humility he steadfastly acknowledged that this mighty healing power was not of himself, but was of his Father, Spirit.
Christian Science acknowledges that through the Way-shower's shining example man's at-one-ment with God, divine Love, is unfolded. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p.181), "Mortals will lose their sense of mortality— disease, sickness, sin, and death—in the proportion that they gain the sense of man's spiritual preexistence as God's child; as the offspring of good, and not of God's opposite, —evil, or a fallen man." Since man is the offspring of God, good, he is forever at one and coexists with good.
