Article April 23, 1955 Issue

ACCEPTING OUR IMMORTALITY

PAT PHILIP ADKINS

Life is man's destiny, and death plays no part in it. When Christ Jesus said (John 8:51), "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death," he was indicating what we have to do to enjoy the privileges of eternal Life. It was as though he was inviting us to enjoy these privileges here and now. He never implied that we should have to undergo some unpleasant experience to reach immortality. The only requirement he made was that we keep his saying.

To keep the Master's saying, we must recognize our life to be in Spirit. Divine authority for this recognition is given in the first chapter of Genesis. Here man is presented in his absolute state of spiritual perfection—made in God's image and likeness. To accept any negative beliefs as possibilities concerning man would not be keeping the Master's saying. God is the Life of man, and man is as sinless, diseaseless, and deathless as God. Life, health, and purity are laws of man's being.

Furthermore, there is no phase of Life in which it becomes natural for age and decrepitude to appear. There is no this phase and that phase to the Life which is God, unchanging divine Principle. Because of this fact, there can lie no change of life for man as God's expression. The only thing that ever really changes or needs changing in regard to life is the human viewpoint of it. Whenever human viewpoint holds that life must be born into matter, it is in need of changing.

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