What did Jesus see as God’s own likeness? Did he see limbs which weren’t damaged, a man or woman who was physically well and not diseased or dead, or did he “see” no flesh and bones, no human being at all, but an image of God unrelated to human form. — A reader in East Sussex, England
A. What helps me most in answering this question is the wonderful explanation by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health: “Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God’s own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick” (pp. 476–477).
Jesus beheld in Science, not in matter, the complete and perfect likeness of God. He saw what the knowledge of divinity showed him—an expression of divinity. God is not flesh and bones, not found in human form, but God does express health, holiness, freedom, in each one of us. Divinity does embrace our humanity.
