Article January 26, 1935 Issue

From Letters, Substantially as Published

Christian Science is founded upon the Scriptures

Kellogg Patton, former Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,—Milwaukee

Sentinel

Christian Science is founded upon the Scriptures. Its teaching regarding the real man is founded upon the statement in the first chapter of Genesis that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." The second chapter of Genesis contains an opposite account, a material view of creation, a false history of a mortal, material man in contradistinction to the true history contained in the first chapter of Genesis.

As Mrs. Eddy has written in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 522): "The first record assigns all might and government to God, and endows man out of God's perfection and power. The second record chronicles man as mutable and mortal,—as having broken away from Deity and as revolving in an orbit of his own."

So Christian Science teaches that the real man is now and always has been the image and likeness of God, spiritual and not material. Into the experience of this real man no evil or discord ever has entered or can enter. As mortals awaken to this truth about God and man, they gradually put off the mortal and material sense of man, with its sickness, sin, and suffering, for the immortal and spiritual sense of man, with its freedom from these evils. Thus "this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."

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