Article April 7, 1956 Issue

RESURRECTION

PAT PHILIP ADKINS

"Now is the time for resurrection." This is the joyful message of Christian Science. While Christendom in general is occupying itself with the pros and cons of a future salvation, Christian Science is urging its students to prove the practical validity of St. Paul's statement (II Cor. 6:2), "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." That Christian Scientists are responding to this call is evident from the carefully verified testimonies of healing published in the Christian Science periodicals and from those which may be heard in Churches of Christ, Scientist, during Wednesday testimony meetings.

Christian Science makes resurrection an immediate possibility for everyone by revealing its wholly mental nature. Mary Baker Eddy defines "resurrection'" on page 593 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" as follows: "Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding."

It is the ideas that tend to spiritualize thought as opposed to all that would materialize it which evidence the resurrection. Christian Science teaches that God is Life; that He is Spirit, all substance, irresistible Truth; that He is Love, the divine Principle of all real being. This Science teaches that man is spiritual, the image and likeness of God, Godlike in every quality, that man, the expression of God's being, is pure, complete, eternal, sinless, diseaseless, and deathless. These truths, when understood, enable us to experience the resurrection.

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