Many people speak rather casually about immortality, as though the word rolled off the tongue as easily as an order for tomato soup. It goes without question that philosophers have long mused upon the subject. Lovers claim their affection is immortal. Explorers have sought the fountain of eternal youth, and alchemists the elixir of life. Modern scientists are developing deep-freeze techniques called cryonics in efforts to achieve it. But few people have actually witnessed evidence of immortality, and even now relatively few have actually considered or understood the repercussions that have followed the appearance of that proof.
Western society is approaching the end of a millennium. While there is already much speculation regarding the thought currents that are sparked by the ending of a century or a millennium, few stop to consider what this time period actually marks: the second thousand years since the life of Christ Jesus.
Dictionaries define immortality as "endless life, not subject to death"; but a better definition would be "eternal life as brought to light through the experience of Christ Jesus." The impact of his life has been so significant that the Western calendar marks it as the central event of human history. Human sense notes the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Spiritual sense gains a faint gleam of the eternal, unalterable, ever-presence of Christ, Truth. Christ reveals to us the reality of Life, God—not life and death, not mortality being transformed into immortality, not immortality emerging from materiality; just simply Life: infinite, ever present, eternal, All-in-all, supreme. Immortal Life cannot be conceived of humanly; it is revealed through divine Science.
