MARY BAKER EDDY makes the goal of Christianity clear when she says in "Christian Science versus Pantheism" (p. 13), "Love all Christian churches for the gospel's sake; and be exceedingly glad that the churches are united in purpose, if not in method, to close the war between flesh and Spirit, and to fight the good fight till God's will be witnessed and done on earth as in heaven."
The Scriptures reveal that Spirit and flesh are opposites, that they do not really commingle, and that the flesh—the corporeal sense of life—must eventually fade out of human thought as sinless, deathless, spiritual existence is demonstrated as man's genuine being. The reluctance of some individuals to stop believing that the transitory, fleshly sense is genuine and to devote themselves exclusively to bringing spiritual life to light is not new. At the time when Christ Jesus said to the people gathered around him (John 6:63), "The flesh profiteth nothing," many of his followers "went back, and walked no more with him."
When the Master saw their defection, he asked the twelve disciples, "Will ye also go away?"
