Article February 28, 1983 Issue

Admit the saving Christ

JAMES DAVID EMRY

Does your life leave something to be desired? Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that human life will probably always leave something to be desired. After all, it's only human. The good news is that the transforming, healing power of the Christ can fulfill your desire for something better through divine Science, the Comforter promised by Jesus.

In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy defines "Christ" as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."^{Science and Health, p. 583.} Christ destroys sin, disease, death—anything that would close our eyes to our true spiritual nature as in fact the man God created and lead us to accept the belief that man is material and mortal.

Daily we make a conscious choice—to identify with the Christ "which comes to the flesh," or with the "flesh" that the Christ comes to. The first and only real choice is the way Christ Jesus pointed out. By correct identification of ourselves as God's man, we progressively separate ourselves from incarnate error and win individual spiritual victories. But when we identify with the flesh, it is often through suffering that we begin to see the need to overcome incarnate error.

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