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SAVING, NOT DESTROYING, HUMAN LIFE

From the December 1965 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christ Jesus' healing work demonstrated the nature of Truth by showing its beneficial effect on humanity. His teaching and practice made plain that human life is not to be destroyed or abandoned, but is to be improved and made fruitful in order to glorify God. Our Master knew that there is great value in living one's human life courageously and progressively and that one is able to do this through spiritualization of thought.

Speaking of his mission, Jesus said (John 10:10), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." The abundant life that he promised is not an accumulation of material things, but is a demonstrable understanding of the Science of being. With this understanding, one can exercise dominion over his human affairs and show forth his status as a child of God.

In reality God and man can never be separated, because they are one in being. Man possesses by reflection all the abundance of divinity. Spiritual man manifests everlasting Life. He shows forth the qualities of vigor, usefulness, originality, and beauty. He is supremely satisfied because he is embraced forever in the atmosphere of Soul. And he is above weakness or sin of any kind.

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