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Overcoming the Human by the Divine
Paul does not leave us in any doubt as to the attitude of the Christian towards carnality. In his first letter to the Corinthians, he writes, in terms which it is impossible not to understand, thus (I Corinthians 15:50): "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption;" and (verse 53), "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." The apostle's words are plainly directed against materiality, that which is foreign to the kingdom of God, which kingdom is entered only by the spiritualized consciousness.
In his denunciation of the corruptible, the mortal, Paul was following the Master, Christ Jesus, who, during his sojourn among men, taught not only the omnipotence of God, Spirit, but the powerlessness of matter, demonstrating what he taught by healing all manner of disease. Jesus understood so perfectly the truth of God's supremacy and the fact that spiritual law is perpetually active, that so-called material law, which in belief holds mortals in bondage to corruption, was time and again overthrown by him. Thus, on several occasions he actually overcame the belief of death, raising to life again those who had seemed to die. He proved the corruptible to be a myth, the mortal to be a lie, death to be an illusion. Jesus could do this because he had brought into captivity his "every thought to the obedience of Christ" (II Corinthians 10:5). His last great demonstration over materiality occurred at his ascension, when he rose entirely above the belief that matter is real. By this supreme act of spiritual understanding he proved that the real man is incorruptible, immortal.

August 19, 1939 issue
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Solving Human Problems
RALPH J. CARNEY
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The Greatest Army in the World
JAYNE BRADFORD
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Enlightened Faith
LUDA F. CORLEY
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God's Gift of Gratitude
MARIA TÖTTERMAN
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Highly Important Things
HERBERT L. HAWKINS
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Freedom
ELIZABETH H. MARSHMAN
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"The lion of the tribe of Juda"
MARIETTA K. HORNIMAN
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Today
HARRY R. MARIETTA
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In a published letter signed by the pastor of the Lutheran...
Roy G. Watson, Committee on Publication for the State of Texas,
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An article in a recent issue referred to Mary Baker Eddy...
Sophie de Vries
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Frank T. Norman, Committee on Publication for Dunbartonshire, Scotland,
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Comfort
HILDA TAYLOR
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Overcoming the Human by the Divine
Duncan Sinclair
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Science, Not Suffering
George Shaw Cook
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The Lectures
with contributions from Elfriede Strobach, Helen L. Parsons, Vivien de Van Sperry, Helen G. K. Shipston, Iva R. Jex, Avery Brown
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In the more than twenty years that I have benefited by...
Nathaniel Field with contributions from Ida L. Mann Field
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I am very grateful for the wonderful truth of Christian Science,...
Elizabeth J. Hoyt with contributions from Arthur Stuart Hoyt
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Christian Science was presented to me twenty-five years...
Amelia Frost Stewart
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I was once afflicted by influenza
C. Bassett Burke
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I became interested in Christian Science nearly twenty...
Edith M. Bowes with contributions from Leon Franklin Bowes
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About seven years ago I was suffering from tuberculosis...
Pearl Beresford
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In gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me...
Matilda St. John Clemens
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O Joyful Morn
DOROTHY MAE ALDRIN
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Signs of the Times
with contributions from J. L. Newland, Thomas Hastwell, James Reid, N. J. Monsma, George Parrish