Of all the biblically
based cults in America today, Christian Science is one of
the most interesting. Not only does it deny the essential
doctrines of Christianity, but it has completely
reinterpreted the Bible. It drastically redefines the
Bible’s culture and terminology and rips thousands of
scriptures out of their historical and biblical contexts.
The result is a non-Christian mixture of metaphysical and
philosophical thoughts. Christian Science is so foreign to
the Bible that, if it didn’t use words like Jesus, Trinity,
Love, Grace, Sin, etc., you’d never suspect it had anything
to do with the Bible at all. Additionally, the book
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which is
the Christian Scientist’s mainstay of spiritual knowledge,
reads with a rhythm of pseudo logical statements that has
the tendency to dull the senses when read long enough. Is
Christian Science Christian? Definitely not.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures is
the primary interpretive source of the Bible and source
guide of Christian Science. It interprets the Bible in a
radically different way. It is so different, in fact, that
it absolutely rejects the substitutionary atonement of Jesus
and states that it had no efficacious value (S&H, 25:6).
It denies that Jesus is God, second person of the Trinity (S&H,
361:12-13). It says that sin is a false interpretation
of Divine Mind and is nonexistent (S&H, 335:7-15).
And it says that the Holy Spirit is Divine Science which is
best represented by Christian Science (S & H, 331:31). The
list can go on and, unfortunately, it does.
To the Christian Scientist, God (the Father-Mother) is
a Principle known as the Divine Mind. It has no personhood
and no personality. A catch phrase used in their literature
is that God is "All in All." In other words, God is all that
exists and what we perceive as matter is an interpretation
of divine mind. Since God is love, it means that sin and
sickness are only errors of interpreting the Divine Mind and
have no true reality (S & H, 330:25-274; 470:9-14).
To the Christian Scientist, Jesus is a Way-shower. He
is someone who epitomized the true principle of the Christ
Consciousness which indwells us all. Therefore, Jesus did
not really die on the cross. He was not God in flesh. He
made no atonement in shedding His blood (S&H, 25:6).
Christian Science teaches that man does not have a
sinful nature and is a reflection of Divine Mind. To achieve
"salvation," he needs only to find the true reality of
understanding, as revealed in Christian Science teachings.
Unfortunately, these teachings are from Mary Baker Eddy a
woman who founded the religion in the 1870's and not from
God.
The Christian Scientists consider their philosophy to
be consistent with the original teachings of Jesus. They
consider truth a matter of higher understanding and
learning. But the reality is that Christian Science has only
produced unbiblical and false doctrines. Eternal destruction
is the only thing that will result from its false teaching.
The fires of hell will be a bitter reality for those who
have been taught that they don’t exist. |
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