Article September 25, 1915 Issue

Our critic quotes Jesus' refusal of the temptation to cast...

Percy Taylor

Calgary (Alberta) Herald

Our critic quotes Jesus' refusal of the temptation to cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, because such an act would deny the submission of the body to physical law. That Jesus refused to perform what would have been merely an act of bravado was no reason why he should not overcome the human belief in physical limitation when the law of Love bade him do so. He never refused to set aside physical law when it was necessary to do so in order to heal the sick. He walked on the waves, stilled the tempest, healed the sick, raised the dead, and performed many acts which were entirely opposed to such so-called law.

A law that can be broken is no law. It is certainly not the law of the unchangeable God. God is not mortal or material, neither can His image and likeness be, and we read in the first chapter of Genesis that God made man in His image and likeness. The Scriptures also state that "in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being." Can that which is unlike God dwell in Spirit? If man dwells in Spirit, God, he cannot also dwell in the material. The material and the spiritual are opposites. That which would dwell in the material could be only the mortal concept of man, not the man that the infinite God conceives or perceives. In I John we are told that "we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."

When we perceive the real nature of God, we shall know what His image and likeness is, and shall reject the mortal, material concept and accept the spiritual as our real being. Christian Scientists are learning to "put off the old man" and "put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him."

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