IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BIBLE LESSON May 11, 2009 Issue

GOD'S IMMORTAL WITNESSES

JANET CLEMENTS

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THE QUESTION OF IMMORTALITY has captivated thought throughout human history. This week's Bible Lesson on "Mortals and Immortals" provides some compelling insights and answers.

One idea that stands out is that God's witnesses must be immortal. A witness is one who attests to the facts, to the truth. The Bible says, "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God" (Isa. 43:12, citation 15). We are a living testimony to God's nature, which is defined in this Lesson as Spirit, eternal Life, and Principle, our lawgiver (see Responsive Reading, and Bible cits. 14, 16). As a natural consequence, God's witnesses express the indestructibility of Spirit, the continuity of eternal Life, and the unalterable law of God. Interestingly, one definition of immortal is "having no principle of alteration" (Webster's Dictionary, 1828).

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