Article May 5, 1917 Issue

One does not have to know anything about Christian Science...

W. D. Kilpatrick

St. Clair (Mich.) Republican

One does not have to know anything about Christian Science to perceive that the first two chapters of Genesis contain two exactly opposite accounts of creation,—one the spiritual and eternal, the other setting forth belief in the material or temporal. It is clear that the account in the first chapter depicts man as the image and likeness of God, perfect, spiritual and eternal, while that in the second chapter depicts belief in the creation of the Adam-man, subject to sin, sickness, and death. The Bible says that this second account of creation was the outcome of the "mist" which "watered the whole face of the ground;" in other words, mystification, or materiality.

Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am," and he also said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Christian Science points to these statements as evidence of the truth of its teaching that the Christ, Truth, always has existed and always will exist. It teaches that Jesus came to expound to mankind, by precept and example, this Christ, or Truth. It proclaims the immaculate conception of Jesus and the divinity of the Christ, and its teachings will be found in strict accord with those of the Bible on these as well as on all other points.

The man of God's creating, or the spiritual, perfect man embraced in the account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis, is sinless and deathless. He is coeternal and coexistent with his Maker. Otherwise he could not be God's image. The Adam-man, or the material man, which is merely a wrong concept of the true man, is the man spoken of in the Bible as subject to sin, sickness, and death. Jesus made it very clear that sin, sickness, and death are not parts of God's creation, for he went about waging relentless battle against the three, and he destroyed them all successfully. He also said that we should do the same,—heal the sick as well as save the sinner. There is no equivocation about that in the Bible, and Christian Scientists should certainly not be criticized for endeavoring to follow the teachings of Jesus in every particular, even though other religionists choose to reject those parts of his teaching which, through ignorance of their true import, they are unable to make practical in healing the sick.

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