When Christ Jesus said, "The meek . . . shall inherit the earth," Matt. 5:5; he must have envisioned this inheritance to include the intelligence to cope with earth's problems. Some people question whether there will be enough workers of high IQ to carry out the tasks the computer technology will demand in the coming years. And many of today's problems—inflation, pollution, poverty, war, even the department store's ability to bill correctly—attest the need for a greater sense of intelligence. Because of the accelerated advance of technology we appear to be approaching a point where insufficient intelligence expressed could spell chaos.
A materially based sense of intelligence —a mind in a brain—by its very nature is limited. The more we learn from such a basis, the more inadequate we become to cope with what we have learned. Because mankind have accepted this limited sense of intelligence, they have left the idea of an infinite Mind largely to religion, and have thought of religion largely as quite apart from the Science of Mind. But Christian Science proves that God, infinite Mind, is the only real Mind of man. It demonstrates that an understanding of the true nature of this infinite Mind frees one from the limitations of so-called material thought processes. We are not limited to what the brain can comprehend.
Before the discovery of Christian Science Christian religions generally regarded regeneration as a purely religious experience, affecting a man morally and spiritually but not physically. And for the most part these religions still accept the belief of human capacities limited to physical conditions. Being born again, as Christ Jesus said we must be, has not therefore been thought of as contributing to one's intelligence. Regeneration has not been seen as a necessity for the solution of human problems.
