Article May 24, 1924 Issue

Replying to this committee in your paper, a critic asks,...

Louis E. Scholl, Committee on Publication for the State of Washington,—Buckley

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Replying to this committee in your paper, a critic asks, "If man is now, and everlastingly will be, perfect and complete, why the need of teaching men to think, act, and live right?"

In a Christian Science lecture as published in the Banner, the lecturer said, "The Bible avers that everything that was made, all reality, not only was in the beginning perfect and complete, but is now, and everlastingly will be, perfect and complete." The lecturer then amplified this statement, and in clear-out logic and unassailable reason supported the assertion. In this connection he also quoted from Ecclesiastes, "Whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it." Let those who are interested in this discussion refer again to the printed lecture.

Your contributor says, "We claim that man was created with a twofold nature—the and the spiritual." It is this very claim, made on the part of the theologians as leaders of religious thought, that has caused so much confused thinking about the Bible—about God and His creation. To assert that God gave man a twofold nature, a spiritual and a physical, is to say that God Himself must be physical as well as spiritual, though Jesus said, "God is a Spirit." It would also make God responsible for having created both the spirit and the flesh, which war against each other; it would make God, whom we are all supposed to worship as a loving, all-wise heavenly Father, responsible for all the wars, all the woes and sins and suffering that the world has known from the beginning. This is where Christian Science differs so radically from the old theology, which puts a literal and material interpretation on all Scripture.

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