Editorial September 28, 1963 Issue

"No spiritual death"

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science disagrees with the commonly accepted belief that people must die in order to become immortals and enter the spiritual state which Christ Jesus called heaven. If such a belief were true, death would be an advantage, an experience to welcome and strive for. The fact that normal human beings resist death, that, generally speaking, they marshal every kind of medical or material remedy to prevent it, and that they dread its coming shows that mankind intuitively reject the belief that death has any spiritual connotation whatever.

The inconsistency of opposing medically what is being accepted theologically is evident to the Christian Scientist, whose theology recognizes mortality as the opposite of Life, God, and as the cause of all that is evil in human experience.

From the basis that Life is deathless and that man is the image and likeness of Life, the scientific Christian resists dying with every bit of spiritual understanding he has demonstrated. He knows that death will be completely abolished when all men express the Christ-spirit, or spirituality, with sufficient power to subordinate the mortal sense of existence. He makes every effort to destroy this false sense day by day as he rises above the frictions and sins and fears that lead to death. Thus he contributes to the solving of the universal problem of mortality.

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