"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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