A divine message from God to humanity requires a messenger to make it appreciable to human consciousness. For example, the demands of Truth, God, were always present, but Moses, God’s chosen messenger, was needed to reveal those demands in the form of the Ten Commandments.
Similarly, the absolute truth, or reality, of God, man, and their relationship existed before Christ Jesus, God’s Son and chosen messenger, revealed this all-inclusive message to humanity. His mighty healing works proved the truth and the value of his teachings. Yet the mission of the master Christian also included the essential teaching that those who scorn and demean God’s appointed messengers are not able to receive, or be blessed by, God’s message. The Bible records that when Jesus returned to the place where he had been brought up (see Matthew 13:54–58; Mark 6:1–6), the people’s utterly material, personal views of him hid from them the Christ-idea of divine sonship that Jesus individualized and represented. The result? He “did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”
History itself teaches that the way to discredit a message is to discredit the messenger, because the messenger is the doorway to receiving and understanding the message. As with Jesus’ experience in his hometown, where an irreverent and disrespectful attitude toward the messenger of Christianity blocked Christianity’s healing message, so it is with the messenger of the Science of Christianity today. An understanding of this Science, and one’s ability to both heal and be healed, require a correct view of its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy.
