Article May 22, 1920 Issue

Our critic is mistaken in thinking that Christian Science...

Charles W. J. Tennant—Devizes, England

Wiltshire Advertiser

Our critic is mistaken in thinking that Christian Science has anything to do with so-called material science. It is, as its name implies, Christian knowledge or science. He will no doubt agree with the statement universally accepted that "like produces like." He will also acknowledge that God is Spirit; therefore, to be logical, he must agree that the offspring of Spirit must be spiritual.

The first chapter of Genesis certainly declares that all that God created is "very good," but it does not imply that this creation is material. On the contrary, it must be spiritual, for man is therein mentioned as made in the image and likeness of God, Spirit. By no conceivable means can the image and likeness of Spirit be made of Spirit's opposite, matter. It would be as impossible as to make flames of frost.

The Scriptures are emphatic in this declaration that the material world is only a temporal phenomenon and must pass away. John says: "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." Could anything be plainer than this in showing that God is not the author of the material condition of things. The eternal nature of God's creation is brought out in Ecclesiastes, "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it."

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