A correspondent, replying to a letter in your issue of...

Charles W. J. Tennant,—London

Norwood Press

A correspondent, replying to a letter in your issue of May 5, challenges the author's statement that "God is incorporeal," and asks, "Who told him this?" The Bible gives us full indication that God is incorporeal. In I Timothy 1:17, God is described as "the King eternal, immortal, invisible." In Psalms 147:5 we read, "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite." We are also told in the Bible that "the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Hence, since God is infinite and omnipotent, he must be incorporeal. He must, therefore, be the divine, infinite Principle of the universe, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Our critic's confusion arises from his lack of discernment of the difference between the human Jesus, born of Mary, and his spiritual selfhood, the Christ, the Son of God. When Christ Jesus said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father," he was not referring to his physical form, but to the Christ, the manifestation of God. He declared, "Before Abraham was, I am;" and in a prayer he said, "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." In both these passages he was referring to his spiritual selfhood, not to his human personality, which was born of Mary.

When Jesus asked his disciples, "But whom say ye that I am?" Peter's reply, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God," brought forth the statement from Jesus that it was not the physical senses which revealed this fact unto him, but spiritual discernment.

Christian Science teaches that the real spiritual man, made in the image and likeness of God, has neither physical birth nor death. This does not refer to mortal man, as our critic supposes.