"God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:17). Here is clearly indicated the attitude of Christianity toward human beings.
How the healing, saving mission of Christianity is to be fulfilled concerns every Christian. Christendom does not yet recognize the role Christian Science is playing in this fulfillment, but it will.
One of the many contributions of Christian Science to the Christian Church is the distinction Science makes between the human and the mortal. Many times in her writings Mrs. Eddy uses these terms synonymously; but when there is a need to make a distinction between them, she does so and for a very good purpose. For instance, she speaks of the coincidence of the divine with the human, but never of the coincidence of the divine with the mortal. In Science and Health she writes (p. 561), "John saw the human and divine coincidence, shown in the man Jesus, as divinity embracing humanity in Life and its demonstration,—reducing to human perception and understanding the Life which is God."
