Following the example set by the question-and-answer columns in the early Journals, when Mary Baker Eddy was Editor, this column will respond to general queries from Journal readers–such as the one above–with responses from Journal readers. You'll find information at the end of the column about how to submit questions.
YOUR QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
By DANIEL R. D. SCOTT, BEVERLY DEWINDT, SCOTT PUTNAM
If I am who I am, and my spiritual identity has no beginning and no end, where have I been before existence in this day and age?
A1 It certainly appears that life starts with birth and grows through infancy to adulthood before ending in death. And this does beg the questions of what (if anything) happens before birth and after death.
However, Christian Science reveals that this mortal sense of life is actually a misapprehension of existence—what Mary Baker Eddy called "the waking dream" of mortal existence (Science and Health,p. 250).
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