Editorial January 1, 1966 Issue

"The Word was made flesh"

William Milford Correll

"The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." This passage from John 1:14 does not mean that Spirit is made matter or that it enters matter, but it does mean that Truth is made practical in human experience. In interpreting this verse Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 350): "Divine Truth must be known by its effects on the body as well as on the mind, before the Science of being can be demonstrated. Hence its embodiment in the incarnate Jesus,—that life -link forming the connection through which the real reaches the unreal, Soul rebukes sense, and Truth destroys error."

The term "flesh" does not necessarily mean matter. It may more properly be considered as material-mindedness, or carnal-mindedness, the state of mind that seems to govern human experience until thought is better instructed by Christian Science. Truth coming to the consciousness of the individual purifies his thinking, corrects his false beliefs, and thereby renews his experience and heals his body. This practicality of the Word is one of the main points in the theology of Christian Science.

It was Jesus' purpose to prove the power of the Word to meet all human needs. The essence of Jesus' life and ministry is bound up in the simple fact set forth in Science and Health (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." His life illustrated the way in which the divine reaches the human.

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