In the Christian Science Bible Lesson May 13, 2013 Issue

What new thing is God doing in your life?

For the Lesson titled "Mortals and Immortals" from May 13 - 19, 2013

Abby Fuller Innes

The Christian Science Bible Lesson this week, titled “Mortals and Immortals,” encourages us to see newness and freshness in our lives. 

The Pharisee Nicodemus came to Jesus looking for a new perspective. He was one of the leaders in the synagogue, and might have come to Jesus at night because Jesus was not a formally educated scholar or scribe. When Jesus told him he needed to become new, or born again, in order to experience the kingdom of God, he didn’t understand at first what Jesus meant (see John 3:1–7, citation 10). How can we usher out the old sense of limitations and mortality and usher in the eternal now of immortality?

When the biblical authors spoke of eternity, they often used the Greek aionios (or eons, often translated as “forever”—see I Timothy 1:17, cit. 5.), which literally meant for an indeterminate amount of time, or for a very long time. 