One of the prominent aspects of the Christ is the fact of man's sonship with God. As the true relationship of God and man, Father and son, dawns upon the individual, it has a marked effect upon his thought about himself, his conduct toward his fellowmen, and his own realization of health and well-being. He finds an entirely new sense of purpose and direction. He gains a clearer understanding of his divine heritage as the child of God. Mrs. Eddy says, "The real man being linked by Science to his Maker, mortals need only turn from sin and lose sight of mortal selfhood to find Christ, the real man and his relation to God, and to recognize the divine sonship."Science and Health, p. 316;
This sense of sonship with God was very apparent in the life of Christ Jesus. He constantly referred to God as his Father. And, of course, the virgin birth was another corroborating fact that tied in with his statement "I came forth from the Father."John 15. 28; But Jesus did not teach any limited sense of the Christ either as to time or availability. He indicated, rather, that all men may come to realize their relationship to God and demonstrate this in all time to come. Man's sonship with God is a scientific fact, and Jesus was the example for all mankind.
Each individual must find his own true selfhood in Christ. He must come to feel what it means to be the idea of Love, the expression of Principle, the manifestation of Soul. His reflection of the nature of God is what identifies him, or characterizes him. The Christ is the activity of God made manifest in man. And the coming of Christ is the dawning of this true idea of selfhood in the consciousness of the individual human being. It is being born again.
