Article February 18, 1950 Issue

MAN'S PRESENT IMMORTALITY

FLORENCE G. SCHELL

The continuity of man is a fundamental doctrine of the Christian religion. Jesus not only taught that life is eternal: he proved that fact by raising himself and others from the grave. He said (John 17:3), "This is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." Thus he clearly indicated that everlasting life is to be found in the correct understanding of God and His spiritual idea, man.

Mary Baker Eddy made it possible for all to gain this understanding of God and consciousness of immortality in her discovery of Christian Science. In her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 370), she makes this profound statement: "To be immortal, we must forsake the mortal sense of things, turn from the lie of false belief to Truth, and gather the facts of being from the divine Mind." Thus are outlined the steps which are to be taken by the seeker of Truth in his search for the understanding of God, which is the only immortality. When Christian Science is universally understood and demonstrated, every vestige of mortality will disappear and man's present immortal status will appear.

Materiality with its pleasures and pursuits is never satisfying; and when the fact becomes apparent that sin, sickness, and death are its concomitants, the desire to forsake it is born. As one seeks the right understanding of God in Christian Science, he begins to glimpse the truth that man, the image and likeness of God, is a wholly spiritual being. Then it is seen that there are not two men, one mortal and the other immortal. These terms, mortal and immortal, refer to different concepts of man; but since one only can be true, the other must be erroneous. The real man is God's concept; mortals, then, are simply false concepts of man.

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