The thinking of the world is largely centered on the human body, its health, beauty, weight, and physical condition. Don't we all feel we need a better understanding of the true nature of body? What actually is body?
In Christian Science we learn that because God is Spirit, His entire creation must be spiritual. This means that our permanent identity is actually spiritual. Then, what about this body (the one we appear to walk around in on earth)? Where does it fit into the scheme of things?
Perhaps it helps to realize we really don't have two bodies—one spiritual and the other material. Our body simply appears to be material because that's our present concept of it. But as the Christ, Truth, transforms, uplifts, and redeems our thoughts and lives, our sense of body is less and less bound by the material concepts of physique and mortality. The true spiritual concept of body as incorporeal identity, or idea, begins to appear to us. We realize its lovely, timeless perfection and its indestructible, uninvadable substance.
