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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Brief History: A mental healer by the name of Dr. Quimby appeared early in the nineteenth century in Portland, Maine. He made experiments in healing by hypnotism and mesmerism. One of his students was a Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy, who from 1862 to 1865 had attracted some notoriety as a mesmeric subject. One year after Dr. Quimby died (1865), Mrs. Eddy claimed to have received a revelation in which she received a discovery of the doctrines of Christian Science. She wrote these philosophies down in a book entitled Science and Health, strikingly similar to a book authored by Dr. Quimby, Science of Man. Mrs. Eddy copyrighted her book and sold it in several editions at handsome revenues. The first edition appeared in 1875, followed by many editions containing many changes . . . Science and Health With, Key To The Scriptures.
The first Science and Health
Association was organized in 1876 with six pupils. The first Science
Church was established by her in Boston in 1879 with twenty?six
members. She was the pastor of this, the "Mother Church." All other
churches of this connection are branch churches of the mother
church. Membership has always run about three women to every man.
"Church of Christ, Scientist" is the official church name. Mrs.
Eddy's career was a checkered one, having thrice married and once
divorced. She reaped a financial fortune; despite her insistence
that nothing material is real, she amassed a worth of over three
million dollars by the time of her death in 1910. She had said,
"There is no death." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRADITION.THE WORD OF GOD.
1. Mary Baker Eddy is the head of the church, and was its first pastor in Boston. (See Historical Sketch). 1. Jesus is the "only potentate." 1 Timothy 6:1415. 2. Jesus is the only head of the church. Ephesians 1: 20?23. 3.Pastors (elders) in the scripture were required to be 'the husband of one wife.' 1 Timothy 3; Titus 1. How could she be a husband at all? 4. Women are limited in their participation in public church assemblies to a place of subjection and silence. 1 Corinthians 14:34; 1 Timothy 2:12.
2. The Bible is
not pure, defiled by material and moral senses. (Eddy, Science and
Health, 139:20?22). 3. 2 Timothy 3:16. 4. 2 Peter 1:21; Matthew 24:35. 5. The word of God is perfect. James 1:25.
3. The church
originated in Boston in 1876. 2. Scriptures teach that the time was when power came and when the Spirit came the first Pentecost after the resurrection of Christ. Joel 2; Acts 2; Mark 9:1; Acts 1: 8. 3. Every plant which the Father did not plant shall be rooted up. Matthew 15:13.
4. "A Christian Scientist is one who accepts and practices Christian Science as a religion." George Channing, "What Is A Christian Scientist?" Leo Rosten,
Religions of America, p. 21.
2. Mary Baker Eddy's religion was
neither Christian nor truly scientific. 5. The name,
"Church of Christ, Scientists" ?on all buildings and literature. 2. It was purchased with His blood. Acts 20:28. 3. Paul, referring to various congregations, said: "The churches of Christ." Romans 16:16.
6. Mrs. Eddy "reinstated primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing." Religious Bodies, Statistics, History and Doctrines, Vol. 11, p. 397ff. "I must know the science of this healing, and I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelations, reason, and demonstration." Science and Health, p. 109. 1. Those who are physically sick have need of a physician. Matthew 9:12. 2. Jesus healed miraculously and even raised from the dead, but told His disciples they would do "greater works." John 14:12. What is greater than healing the Sick or restoring sight to the blind? It is saving the souls of men through the preaching of the good news of the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:1?4. This greater work could later be done because Jesus said, "I go to my Father." 3. Physical miraculous healing, drinking deadly poison, etc., w a s performed by Christ and His apostles for the specific purpose of confirming the word. Hebrews 2:14; Mark 16:20. 4. All revelation of truth was complete in the first century. Jude 3 ("The faith was once for all delivered to the saints.") 5. Once fully revealed, confirmed by signs, and recorded by competent witnesses, the truth was completely delivered and there was no longer a need for confirming that truth again and again.
7. God is "harmonious mind?action," divine, infinite mind, principle, truth.
Science and Health, 109: 16?17;
465:8?10. 8. Jesus Christ is not God, except in same sense that 'God and man, Father and Son, are one in being." Science and
Health, 36: 2?18.
He was not incarnated in the flesh: "The Virgin Mary conceived this idea of God, Christ is not God, and gave to her ideal the name of Jesus." Science and Health, 29: 14?18. 2. Jesus became flesh. Luke 1:30, 31, 34, 35; John 1: 14; Luke 24:39.
4. The same person, in fleshly body. John 20:31; Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15: 3; 1 Peter 1:19; Ephesians 2:13?16. 5. A man is a liar (so is a woman!) who does not confess Jesus is the Christ, one and the same. 2 John 7. 6. Jesus Christ
is come in the flesh. 2 John 7.
Jesus did not die. Science and
Health, 46: 2, 3; 44:28?20; 45:11?12. Jesus did not
rise from the dead physically. Science and Health, 313: 26?30. The "material blood of Jesus" will not save from sin. Science and Health, 25: 6?9. [Note: This is an admission that Jesus is the Christ and that He came in the flesh and that physical blood ran through His veins.] 9. We are saved from sin by the blood of Christ. Romans 5:9; Colossians 1:20; Hebrews 10:4?12; 1 John 1:7.
10. There are not
three persons in the one God, or Godhead. Science and Health, 515:
17?19.
11. Sin, sickness and death are illusions. Science and Health, 283': 8?11. "Man is incapable of sin, sickness and death." Science and Health, 475: 28: "Lazarus never died." Science and Health, 575: 413. "Man is never sick." Science and Health, 393: 29. "There is no disease." Science and
Health, 421: 18. "Death an illusion."Science and Health, 584:9. 2. If we say we have no sin we lie. 1 John 1:8?9. 3. See Matthew 4:24; Mark 6:5.; John 4:46. 4. Man has died since Adam Genesis 5:1?5. 5. "Lazarus is dead." John 11:14. 6. Men must die by God's decree. Hebrews 9:27.
12. Divorce is acceptable by mutual consent or by legal dissolution. Miscellaneous Writings, 297:18?25. 1. Divorce allowable only on one condition. Matthew 5: 31?32; Matthew 19:8?9. 13. Christian Science abolishes
Baptism and the Lord's Supper from their practice. 2. The Lord's Supper wasobserved weekly by Christians from the apostolictimes. Acts 2:42; 20:7; 1
Corinthians 11:23?29; John6:53 (No
life except we eatChrist's flesh and drink hisblood in remembrance).
14. "If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is can celled, and that man is made better merely by praying, prayer is an evil."Science and Health, p. 5. 1. Men should pray everywhere. 1 Timothy 2:8. 2. Men should pray in everything Philippians 4:6. 3. Men should pray always. 1 Thessalonians 5:17.
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