Article September 29, 1917 Issue

Under the title, "The Cross of Christ," in a recent issue...

Duncan Sinclair in—Glasgow, Scotland

Partick Gazette

Under the title, "The Cross of Christ," in a recent issue of the Gazette, reference is made to those who have "become Christian Scientists and no longer believe that there is such a thing as death; and that hence they could not believe that Jesus died for sins."

In the first place, Christian Science does not deny that death seems to occur, as a phenomenon, on the material plane of human consciousness; but it differs entirely from generally accepted religious systems in that it does not admit that death has its origin in God. Christian Science holds that God is infinite Life, and that in infinite Life there exists no such thing as death, which is the very antithesis of Life. Death is the result of the beliefs of the carnal mind,—the material sense of things, which sense is in direct opposition to the fact that God and His universe are entirely spiritual. Death is unreal in the absolute sense, in the sense, that is, that it does not exist in the consciousness of God.

Further, Christian Science does not underrate the sacrifices made by Jesus the Christ for the world,—indeed, Christian Scientists look upon the Nazarene as the greatest friend and the best friend of mankind,—but they differ from many as to the meaning of his life. Christian Science looks upon his work as essentially that of a Saviour. It holds that Jesus' whole effort was directed toward the destruction of the beliefs of sin, disease, and death. But could he have destroyed anything real? Not if reality be defined as that which exists in the eternal consciousness of God. Undoubtedly in every healing of sin and disease he performed, as well as in the recorded instances of the raising of the dead, Christ Jesus proved that sin, disease, and death were false beliefs of the human mind, and that they could be, and actually were, destroyed through his spiritual understanding of Truth.

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