"One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to
pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires constant
self-immolation on the sinner’s part. That God’s
wrath should be vented upon His beloved Son, is
divinely unnatural. Such a theory is man-made" (S&H,
p. 23:3-7).
"The material blood of
Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin
when it was shed upon ‘the accursed tree,’ than when
it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about
his Father’s business" (S&H, 25:6-8).
"His disciples believed
Jesus to be dead while he was hidden in the
sepulcher, whereas he was alive . . ." (S&H, p.
44:28-29).
". . . his body was not
changed until he himself ascended, — or, in other
words, rose even higher in the understand of Spirit,
God . . .and this exaltation explained his
ascension, and revealed unmistakably a probationary
and progressive state beyond the grave" (S&H, p.
46:15-17; 20-24).
"His students then received
the Holy Ghost. By this is meant, that by all they
had witnessed and suffered, they were roused to an
enlarged understanding of divine Science" (S&H, p.
46:30-32).
"A scientific mental method
is more sanitary than the use of drugs, and such a
mental method produces permanent health" (S&H,
79:7-9).
"It is contrary to
Christian Science to suppose that life is either
material or organically spiritual" (S&H, 83:21-22).
"The admission to one’s
self that man is God’s own likeness sets man free to
master the infinite idea" (S&H 90:24-25).
"The theory of three person
in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or
Tri-unity) suggest polytheism . . ." (S&H, p.
256:9-11).
"Father-Mother is the name
for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship
to His spiritual creation" (S&H, p. 332:4-5.).
"The word Christ is
not properly a synonym for Jesus, thought it is
commonly so used" (S&H, p. 333:3-4).
"Mind is the I AM, or
infinity. Mind never enters the finite. . .but
infinite Mind can never be in man . . .a portion of
God could not enter man" (S&H, p 336:1-2,13,19-20).
". . . and recognize that
Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared,
but is the Son of God" (S&H, p 361:11-13).
Speaking of Gen. 2:7, "Then
the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and
man became a living being," Eddy says, "Is this
addition to His creation real or unreal? Is it the
truth, or is it a lie concerning man and God? It
must be a lie, for God presently curses the
ground..."(S&H, p. 524:13-27).
In describing what the
Devil is, it says, "Evil; a lie; error; neither
corporeality nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a
belief in sin, sickness, and death; animal magnetism
or hypnotism; the lust of the flesh, which saith: ‘I
am life and intelligence in matter. There is more
than one mind, for I am mind, - a wicked mind,
self-made or created by a tribal god and put into
the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to
reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not
after the image and likeness of Spirit, but after
its own image." (S&H, p. 584:17-25).
"If there had never existed
such a person as the Galilean Prophet, it would make
no difference to me." (The First Church of Christ
Scientist and Miscellany, pp. 318, 319). |
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