"What's in a name?" Romeo and Juliet, Act II, scene 2 . Shakespeare asked. Good question! Our answer can maker a big difference to our lives.
After a close relative passed on, I was involved with other members of the family in sorting out her affairs. We were necessarily concerned with the inheritance and indulged in reviving memories from faded photographs and old letters. The past became very vivid to me.
Now, I knew that Christian Science refutes the mortal view of man, including the belief in heredity—that is, that physical and other traits, good or bad, are handed on from parent to child. Christian Science teaches us the falsity of the belief that our identity is an accumulation of characteristics derived from a mortal past. These traits have nothing to do with our real spiritual individuality as the offspring of God, Spirit.
