Article October 30, 2006 Issue

POWERFUL, PRACTICAL TRUTH 'THE SCIENTIFIC STATEMENT OF BEING'

BY BART VAN ECK

There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual. — Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, p. 468 

Two Thousand Years ago, by challenging the materialism that had corrupted the Jewish worship of that age, Christ Jesus also challenged fundamental beliefs regarding material existence. He proclaimed that God is Spirit, to be worshipped "in spirit and in truth" (see John 4:24). To the Jewish leader Nicodemus, he said, "Except a man be born ... of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5). And to his disciples he said, "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing" (John 6:63).