Christ Jesus, in the face of ridicule and disbelief regarding his professed sonship with God, declared a dynamic truth when he stated in no uncertain terms, "I and my Father are one."John 10:30; This saying upset the traditional, doctrinal beliefs of the Jews and brought upon him the angry resistance of the carnal mind, which was impervious to the spiritual truth Jesus expressed. The Master was referring to his oneness with God, good, qualitatively, whereas his opponents mistakenly assumed he was making himself equal with God.
Christ expresses the nature of God, which Jesus so fully exemplified. Mrs. Eddy gives us this description in Science and Health: "Christ expresses God's spiritual, eternal nature."Science and Health, p. 333; And in the Glossary of this book "Christ" is defined as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."ibid., p. 583;
Since God, Principle, is the only cause and creator, His creation, man and the universe, must necessarily manifest the activity of the divine, spiritual, and eternal nature —that is, the Christ. It follows that the Christ is universal Truth and is expressed not partially but fully, everywhere and at all times. Furthermore, the Christ, as the divine image or ideal of God, has existed forever and will so continue.
