It has been well said that "The common sense that teaches us that the earth is flat, that the sun moves around the earth, and other obvious, visible facts is mistaken.
Among
the countless good things that Christian Science has brought to the world is an understanding of these words in our Lord's Prayer, "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine.
History
records constant vitalizations of religious thought, which were followed by corresponding attempts to express in dogma or creed a final statement of truth.
Christian Science is a radical departure from the beaten paths of traditional religion and medicine, from the letter to the spirit of the Christian religion, from the literal to the inspired sense of the Scriptures, and from the material and physical to the metaphysical in medicine as well as in religion.
In declaring that we should be "willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," the apostle sought to show the need of lifting our thoughts above the material aspect of things and placing them so far as possible upon the spiritual.
