Article January 3, 1914 Issue

Our critic asserts that Christian Scientists deny the divinity...

John W. Doorly

The Halifax (England) Courier

Our critic asserts that Christian Scientists deny the divinity of Christ. Now, I have been a Christian Scientist for eleven years, and during that time it has been increasingly clear to me that the divinity of Christ is a scientific and unalterable fact which Christian Science has made clear to humanity. But perhaps the critic will tell us where in Mrs. Eddy's writings she denies the divinity of Christ. On page 25 of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, we read, "The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus." On page 26 of the same book we read: "The Christ was the Spirit which Jesus implied in his own statements: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life;' 'I and my Father are one.' This Christ, or divinity of the man Jesus, was his divine nature, the godliness which animated him." Again on page 30 we read: "Born of a woman, Jesus' advent in the flesh partook partly of Mary's earthly condition, although he was endowed with the Christ, the divine Spirit, without measure," and on page 583 Mrs. Eddy gives a definition of Christ as "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error."

The truth is, Christian Science teaches that all real being is divine, because it is the manifestation or expression of the one cause or divinity, but it in no way teaches that poor mortality is divine, but rather that it is the false, fleeting human sense of reality. The letter quoted by the critic makes the foolish statement that Christian Science denies that men have bodies; but there is nothing in the teaching of Christian Science to substantiate such a statement. Christian Science teaches that mortal mind produces all the discordant conditions of the body, and that the human mind and body are both healed by the purifying and invigorating influence of divine Truth as revealed and applied in Christian Science.

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