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From "Science and Health"...

In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy concludes the textbook with a chapter composed of a series of Questions and Answers.  This chapter, called "Recapitulation", includes on page 495 the tenets of Christian Science.  We are including it here so the new visitor has a clear description of Christian Science as it relates to the religious and philosophical positions we might share with others.

 

Question - Have Christian Scientists any religious creed?

 

Answer - They have not, if by that term is meant doctrinal beliefs.  The following is a brief exposition of the important points, or religious tenets, of Christian Science:

Tenets of Christian Science

      1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal life.
 

   2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and in­finite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness.

                                           

   3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is pun­ished so long as the belief lasts.

 

   4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evi­dence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.

 

   5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eter­nal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the noth­ingness of matter.

 

6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

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