Article September 20, 1930 Issue

In Forsamlingsbladet, No. 10, for this year, there appears...

Count Sigge Cronstedt, Committee on Publication for Sweden,—Stockholm (translation)

Forsamlingsbladet

In Forsamlingsbladet, No. 10, for this year, there appears a review of "Modern Religious Substitutes." In this connection please allow me to submit a few facts concerning the teachings of Christian Science.

This teaching most certainly is not, nor was it "originally, only a method of soul-healing." Its deepest endeavor and purport is to show God's allness, man's oneness with God, who is Love, and the necessity and possibility of mankind's salvation here and now through Christ. It discloses that Christ Jesus demonstrated or proved that salvation includes deliverance from sin, as well as from sickness, and finally victory over death: he said that he had come that they might have life and have it more abundantly. On page 150 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary Baker Eddy, speaks of the "higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world." Christian Science certainly teaches that God is personal, if we regard this as meaning that He is infinite Person; but God is surely not a corporeal being.

In the above-mentioned article it is stated that "an absolutely material man, no matter how uncontrolled and selfish he may be, is nearer to God than a sick and suffering person." Nothing could be more extraneous to this teaching, and no such inference can be found in Science and Health. On the contrary, it is pointed out therein that the sinner must acknowledge his sin through repentance, and should desire to be reformed. It is shown further that sickness as a result of sin is often the means by which a longing for conversion is effected. Moreover, on page 404 of Science and Health it is maintained that "the healthy sinner is the hardened sinner." To be saved from sin is to cease sinning, and from sickness to be well; it is not merely to say that one is saved.

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