In considering the distinction between the divine and the human, can these ever coexist?
| DIVINE | human |
| perfect | imperfect |
| spiritual | material |
| unchanging | changeable |
| universal love | personal love |
| incorruptible | corruptible |
| immortal | mortal |
But Paul proclaimed: “In Him we live and move and have our being.” This cannot mean the human lives and moves and has his being in the divine! What then?
Perhaps the answer lies in Jesus’ statement: “he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” As explained in the 1st Edition of Science and Health: “The lessons of earth should lift the affections and understanding to a spiritual base whereby we lose error [human] to gain Truth [divine], for, ‘he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.’”
The human contradicts the divine at every step. It follows that the human as such cannot be redeemed but must be relinquished. “Sinners are never saved.” (1st Ed, Science and Health) - as long as one is embroiled in sin, he is not saved. Jesus warned the woman he saved from been stoned for her adultery, “Go and sin no more.”
This brings into focus Paul’s magnificent climax of the First Epistle to the Corinthians:
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”