Article June 10, 1905 Issue

Christian Science claims that God is everything that...

J. R. Mosley

Macon (Ga.) News

Christian Science claims that God is everything that the inspired statements of the Bible and the teachings and life of Jesus reveal Him to be; that He is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient Spirit; that He is Love; that He is Life; that He is the source of every good and perfect blessing; that He is "good and very good;" that He is "All in all."

Christian Science teaches that Christ is "God with us," the manifestation of God on the plane of humanity. It teaches that Christ is divine, the Son of God, the Healer of all diseases and the Saviour from all sins. It teaches that it was through the humanity of Jesus that the divinity of the Christ was made manifest; and Christian Scientists believe that it was necessary for Jesus to sacrifice his life in the flesh in order to prove his divine life in God, and thereby reveal and make possible the perfect atonement with the Father. It makes the atonement of Christ the reconciliation of man to God and the full salvation from every evil to which flesh is heir. While it gives a fuller, deeper, more spiritual meaning to "the blood of Christ" and to "the cross of Christ" than do some of the more popular forms of historical Christianity, it attaches the very deepest and the sublimest significance and importance to everything in the life and experience of Jesus, from his conception to his ascension.

While Christian Science teaches that sin and other evils are neither in, nor of God or His spiritual creation, it also teaches, with the greatest possible emphasis, that all sin must be repented of, forsaken and overcome, before we can be free from the claims of evil. When Christian Science says that sin is unreal, it means that it is an awful lie and deception; that there is no real pleasure or satisfaction in it; that it always ends in pain and death; that, unlike God and His manifestation, it can be overcome, destroyed, and annihilated, and thus proven unreal. Christian Science also recognizes that there is no way to get rid of sin and the evils of existence except through Christ and the Christ-way. In fact, all our denials of sin and evil are to the end that we may love and do that which is good, that which is right, that which is worth while, that which is spiritual, that which is Christly.

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