Article November 2, 1912 Issue

HABIT OF GUESSING

CLARENCE W. CHADWICK.

GUESSING is a characteristic of the mortal or carnal mind. The one divine intelligence or Mind alone knows all things. Mortal mind knows nothing that is absolutely real, perfect, or eternal. Its so-called knowing or knowledge is purely relative or temporal. It knows nothing of God, "for to be carnally minded is death;" hence a mortal's need of a Saviour to show him how to rid himself of mortal mind.

Christ Jesus came to show mankind how to be rightminded, how to get into touch with that which thinks and knows spiritually. It must be admitted that Jesus never advocated the popular theory of minds many, capable of thinking both good and evil. He never taught that brain is the seat of consciousness or intelligence. It is obvious that he had an entirely different view of the human economy from that entertained by mortals. He did not look into any temporal structure for volition, consciousness, intelligence, life, or mind. He possessed an understanding of Truth gained by no ancient or modern school of philosophy, and it was this understanding which enabled him to annul so-called material law and testimony. It was this understanding which antagonized and still continues to antagonize the materialistic and religious thought of professing Christians. If his understanding of the nothingness of matter was demonstrable and therefore correct, the question arises, Why should those who profess to love Christ, reject his teaching? The answer is plain, "The carnal mind is enmity against God," and "not subject to the law of God." With no real intelligence to think right, its only alternative is to guess or surmise as to the nature of both Spirit and matter.

This is what has been taking place down through the centuries, and it will continue just so long as humanity refuses to accept and to apply Jesus' teaching concerning cause and effect. Is it not a form of mental indolence which insists upon remaining in a state of ignorance concerning God, man, and the universe? And yet this is precisely what mankind is doing in refusing to accept the Christ-teaching. Men have imagined for centuries that they could believe their way into the kingdom of heaven, yet Christ Jesus advanced no such theory. The belief that heaven is a locality and that man has to die in order to reach it, is without support, although there are many who have fallen into this habit and who are very loath to be told anything to the contrary. The supposition that an immortal soul inhabits a mortal body and becomes disembodied after what is called death, belongs wholly to the realm of human speculation. There is no tangible proof of any such theory being true, while there is much to contradict it.

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