Article April 9, 1932 Issue

In your issue of November 23 a clergyman takes occasion...

Israel Pickens, Committee on Publication for the State of Alabama,

Birmingham Post

In your issue of November 23 a clergyman takes occasion to criticize the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. He charges that Mrs. Eddy "boldly claims that the Bible contradicts itself." This is incorrect.

It is a fact well known to all Bible scholars that there are two distinct accounts of creation in the book of Genesis. The first chapter deals with the real or spiritual creation. Therein it is stated that God made man in His image and likeness, and pronounced His creation as "very good." John says that "all things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." Jesus defined God as Spirit; also as perfect. The teachings of Christian Science are based absolutely upon those Scriptural truths.

Beginning in the second chapter of Genesis, we have the record of the material or counterfeit, which is the exact opposite of the true creation. In this second chapter the so-called creations of matter apparently arise from a mist, or mystification. Christian Science teaches that material existence with its accompaniments of sin, sickness, and death does not represent God's creation. The real man in the image of his Maker is spiritual and perfect.

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