CHRISTIAN SCIENCE - CHRISTIAN or CULT?
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, foundress of the "Christian Science,"
now dead, was an ex-spiritualistic medium. Her book, SCIENCE
and HEALTH with KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES, is accepted by her
followers as THE text book of revelation, and it is required
reading at all services. Mrs. Eddy wrote about the book, thus:
"I should blush to write of SCIENCE and HEALTH WITH KEY TO
THE SCRIPTURES, as I have, were it of human origin, and I
apart from God, it author; but I was only a scribe echoing the
harmonies of heaven in Divine Metaphysics, I cannot be
super-modest of the Christian Science text-book."
From these words one would naturally expect that the
teachings of CHRISTIAN SCIENCE would harmonize with those of
the Bible, of which it is supposed to be the key! We now offer
a comparison:
"The principle of Divine Metaphysics is God" (S&H,pg 5)
"Life, Truth and Love constitute the triune God, or triple
Divine principle" (S&H,page 277)
"The theory of three persons in one God (that is a personal
trinity or tri-unity) suggest heathen gods" (S&H pg 152)
Thus Christian Science denies a Personal Trinity. Now,
while an actual doctrine of the Trinity is nowhere explicitly
taught in Scripture, the WHOLE Scripture testifies to this
FACT - See the CHRISTIAN DOWNLOAD menu and read the text on the
TRINITY. The Bible confirms and leaves NO DOUBT that GOD IS TRIUNE
in NATURE.
Let's look at some questions and answers that are found in
S & H to see if the God of the Bible is the God of Christian
Science.
QUESTION: What is intelligence?
ANSWER: Intelligence is omniscience and omnipotence. It
is the primal and eternal quality of infinite mind, of the
triune Principle - Life, Truth and Love - named God. (pg 469)
QUESTION: What is mind
ANSWER: Mind is God (pg 469)
God, the Divine Principle of man, and man in God's
likeness are inseparable, harmonious and eternal ... God and
man are not the same, but in the order of Science, God and man
co-exist and are eternal. (pg 470)
The Divine Mind is the Soul of man, and gives man
dominion over all things. (pg 307)
God, without the image and likeness of Himself would
be a non-entity, or Mind unexpressed. He would be without a
witness or proof of His own nature .. If God, who is Life,
were parted for a moment from His reflection, man, during that
moment there would be no divinity reflected. The Ego would be
unexpressed and the Father would be childless - no father.
(pgs 303,306)
The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God,
liable to wrath, repentance, and human changeableness. (pg
120)
We do not need to detail a rebuttal of these
unscientific, illogical statements that are in DIRECT
opposition to the Word of God! The God of the Bible and the
God of Christian Science are totally opposites, and we cannot
worship and love both at the same time - unless we deny the
reason God gave each of us AND do so in spite of the Word of
the Living God.
The term "CHRISTIAN" denotes following one called CHRIST.
Christian Science attempts to deceive people by claiming to be
"CHRISTIAN" while they are NOT. Let us look at the Jesus of
Christian Science, who the Bible states IS THE CHRIST.
"The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the so-called
personal sense, whereas Jesus appeared as a bodily existence.
This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the
spiritual and the material, the eternal Christ and the
corporeal Jesus manifest in the flesh, continued until the
Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or
Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ,
continues to exist in the eternal order of Divine Science,
taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always
done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal
eyes." (S & H)
Some factors become immediately aware at this point. (1)
The writer NEVER read the Bible in context and (2) was
blatantly blasphemous in her absurdities! What does Christian
Science teach about ATONEMENT?
"Jesus never ransomed man by paying the debt that sin
incurs, whosoever sins must suffer.."(VOL 2,pp 143,144)
"Jesus bore our infirmities; he knew the error of mortal
belief, and 'with his stripes (the rejection of error)* we are
healed." *=Mrs. Eddy's own explanation of the "stripes"-how
far off base could she have been??
"Final deliverance from error, whereby we rejoice in
immortality ... is not reached ... by pinning one's faith
without works to another's vicarious effort." (VOL 2,p 22)
What does the BIBLE say? 1 Timothy 2:5,6:
"For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and
men, the Man Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a ransom for all,
to be testified in due time."
In the 1903 edition of S & H on page 113, Mrs. Eddy gave
FOUR BASIC PROPOSITIONS. These are Mrs. Eddy's own words:
FIRST, God is all in all.
SECOND, God is good, good is mind.
THIRD, Spirit being all, nothing is matter.
FOURTH, Life, God, omnipotent, good, deny death, evil, sin,
disease ---Disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, omnipotent,
God, life.
In her statements, Mrs Eddy stated that these propositions
were true because they could be read forward and backward and
have the same meaning. On this very basis, we could "prove"
that angels, cherubim and seraphim are lizards, pigs and
horses! The absurditity of these teachings are all the more
damning when you consider how many people are snared in this
trap of lies and misrepresentations. Again, quoting Mrs. Eddy:
"If the body is only a phantom and the flesh is only a
shadow, it is logically certain that by-and-by some very
practical sinners will take refuge under this system, and
insist that the sins of the body and the transgressions of the
flesh are harmless, since they are only the phantom of a
phantom, and the shadow of a shadow."
Where is it PROVEN that the body is a phantom? If this one
premise is incorrect THEN ALL the remainder is FALSE!
Christian Science has as its aim to take away Jesus Christ as
the alone Saviour of men. It denies His actual birth,
repudiates Him as the Christ, makes Him to be as full of
errors as other mortals, rejects the Atonement of the Cross,
says He never died, never was buried and never rose from the
grave, does not exalt His name above every name, refuses to
Bow to Him as Lord and God, teaches that He does not sit upon
the infinite Throne,and that He is not in heaven at all. In
short, it turns His body into an apparition, His blood to
nothingness, His cross to a myth, His death as a fiction, His
burial as a mockery, and Himself to a personality that was
never real and no longer exist.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IS NOT CHRISTIAN AND CAN NEVER BE
CLASSIFIED AS CHRISTIAN! A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST IS DOOMED TO A
HELL THAT HE WON'T BELIEVE IN UNTIL HE ARRIVES THERE!
We, as Christians and followers of JESUS the CHRIST, are
required in Ezekiel 3 and 33 to "sound the warning" and we are
doing so on this BBS. We pray that the message will reach the
heart that Jesus want to have as His!
SYSOP-Computers For Christ 3/24/82
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