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Bible Insights

Since 2003, our Bible Forum column has provided readers with valuable Bible scholarship and historical context. Starting with this issue, the Journal is revamping the column to feature shorter insights and ideas from contributors’ individual Bible study. This approach will continue to shed new light on familiar (or not so familiar) Bible stories, history, and scholarship. But we also hope it will inspire more readers to further their own study of the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy’s writings—and to offer their insights and discoveries for publication.

Who am I?

From the April 2011 issue of The Christian Science Journal


“Remember who you are.” These words were spoken by a father to his son in a movie I was watching. The son was about to destroy the life of his girlfriend’s attacker. Surprisingly, it reminded me of who I really am—God’s perfect creation.

The Bible says, “The king’s daughter is all glorious within” (Ps. 45:13), and every Sunday in Christian Science churches around the world we hear, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God” (I John 3:2).

In Science and Health, Mary Baker Eddy described our spiritual identity: “Man is idea, the image, of Love; he is not physique” (p. 475). I love this idea; I am the image of Love, and all of us are created in its likeness— pure and perfect.

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