Today, as He has throughout the ages, God reveals Himself through His Christ. The Christ does not belong to any one age. It is timeless.
Anciently the great prophets of the Bible, and other characters of the Old Testament, had glimpses of the Christ, which appeared to them as the voice of God. Their communion with the Almighty was through spiritually exalted thought. In these loved characters we can trace some element of the Christ; and when the Christ-element predominated, they performed mighty works.
By her discovery of Christian Science our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, brought to mankind the true and distinctive nature of the Christ. She says in page 583 of this textbook she defines "Christ" as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."
