Article February 16, 1924 Issue

Contrary to the remarks of a revivalist recently published...

Richard Herbert Smith, Committee on Publication for Montana,—Great Falls

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Contrary to the remarks of a revivalist recently published in your paper, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy agrees entirely with the Bible on the definitions of God, sin, the atonement, and creation. When understood, it is inconceivable that any should take issue with Christian Science on these subjects. We not only ascribe to God all power, but know God to be the only power. He created all. "All things were made by him." What He created was completely and wholly good: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Thus, to Christian Scientists God is supreme and infinite good.

As to sin, all agree that it is not good; therefore, God is not its author. Then why ascribe might, power, or intelligence to something that has never been? Christian Scientists do not. This does not mean that they close their eyes to the claims of evil. That evil appears to exist and to human sense seems very real, Christian Scientists recognize; but they handle it by knowing that they cannot be harmed by things never created.

From the established fact that God created all, a perfect creation logically follows. In the case of man, this is made specific by the Biblical statement that "God created man in his own image." To be the image of God man cannot be less than perfect. But the Bible requires that we distinguish between spiritual man of God's creating and the so-called human, mortal, or carnal, which, we are told in Romans, is enmity against God, and cannot please Him. Therefore, in Christian Science, we accept as the real man the spiritual, and insist that "this mortal ... put on immortality."

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