Christian Science And Health Compared And Contrasted With Scriptures

1.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
Assertion by the AuthorDeclaration of the Holy Scriptures
EditionPage & LineVerbatim QuotationBookChapter & VerseVerbatim Quotation
Misc. Writings170“The material record  of the Bible is no more important to our well being than the history of Europe and America.”II Tim.3:16,17“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
1917521-26“The second chapter of Gen. contains a statement of this material view of God and universe, a statement which is the exact opposite of scientific truth.”John17:17“Thy Word is Truth”
1917522-25“The second chapter of Gen. which portrays Spirit as supposedly cooperating with matter in constructing the universe is based on some hypothesis of error.”Psl.119:160“Thy Word is true from the beginning.”
I John2:21“I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.”
1917524-25Citing Gen. 2:7 “Is it the truth, or is it a lie concerning man and God?  It must be a lie.”Titus1:2“God that cannot lie.”
1917545-3Citing Gen. 3:22 “Behold the man is become as one of us.”  This could not be the utterance of truth.Isa.40:8“The Word of our God shall stand for ever.”
1917139-15“The decisions by vote of Church Councils the manifest in the ancient versions; the thirty thousands different reading in the O.T. and the 300,000 in the New, these facts show how a mortal and material sense stole into the divine record, with its own hue darkening, to some extent, the inspired pages.”Matt.24:35“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
John10:35“The Scripture cannot be broke.”
2.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(a) CONCERNING HIS INCARNATION
Assertion by the Author of “Science and Health”Declaration of the Holy Scriptures
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191729-17“The Virgin-mother conceived this idea of God, and gave to her ideal the name of Jesus.”Luke1:30,31“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary; for thou hast found favor with God.  And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and shalt call his name Jesus.”
191729-32“Jesus was the offspring of Mary's self-conscious communion with God.”
1917332-26“Mary's conception of him was spiritual.”John1:14“And the word (Christ) was made flesh.”
1917332-11“The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual.”Heb.10:5“A body hast thou prepared me.”
191729-20“The illumination of Mary's spiritual sense put to silence material law and its order of generation, and brought forth her child by the revelation of Truth, demonstrating God as the Father of men.”Matt.1:18-25“Now the birth of Jesus Christ on this wise; When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.”
1917336-19“A portion of God could not enter man: neither could God's fullness be reflected by a single man, else God would be manifested finite, lose the deific character, and become less than God.”Col.2.9“For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.”
II John7“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh.  This is a deceiver and an antichrist.”
2.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(b) CONCERNING HIS DEITY
Misc. Writings84“Jesus is not the Christ.”Acts 17:2,3“This Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.”
1917333-32“By these sayings Jesus meant, not that the human Jesus was or is eternal, but that the divine idea or Christ was and is so and therefore antedated Abraham; not the corporeal Jesus was one with Father, but that the spiritual idea, Christ dwells forever.”Acts2:36“God hath made that same Jesus both Lord and Christ.”
Heb1:8“Unto the Son He saith, Thy throne O God, is for ever and ever.”
Phil2:9-11“Jesus Christ is Lord.”
John 1:1“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.”
2.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(c) CONCERNING HIS SACRIFICIAL DEATH
191745-32“Jesus' students, not sufficiently advanced fully to understand their Master's triumph did not perform many wonderful works, until they saw him after his crucifixtion, and learned that he had not died.”John19:33“The soldiers saw that he was already dead.”
Acts3:15“Killed the Prince of Life.”
Rom.5:6-8“Christ died.” “Christ died for us.”
Phil.2:8“He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
191744-28“His disciples believed Jesus to be dead, while he was hidden in the sepulchre, whereas he was alive.”Rev.1:18“I am He that liveth, and was dead.”
Rom.10:9,10“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Unity of God62-18“In Science, Christ never died.  The fleshly Jesus seemed to die though he never did.”Rom.5:10Paul wrote, “For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son.”
191745-10“Paul writes, For if, when we were enemies, were reconciled to God by the (seeming) death of His Son.”Heb.9:22“Without shedding of BLOOD there is no remission.”
Luke22:20“My BLOOD which is shed for you.”
191725-6“The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon the accursed tree then when it was flowing in his veins as he went daily about his Father's business.”Rom.5:9“Being now justified by HIS BLOOD.”
Eph.1:7“We have redemption through His BLOOD.”
I Peter2:24“Who His own self bare our sins in His OWN BODY on the tree.”
191723-3“One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin.  The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part.”Rom.5:8“While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
II Tim.1:9“Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace.”
191722-23“Final deliverance is not reached through paths of flowers, nor by pinning one's faith without works to another's vicarious effort.”Eph.2:8-10“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.  For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
191724-20“Does erudite theology regard the crucification of Jesus chiefly as providing a ready pardon for all sinners who ask for it and are willing to be forgiven? Then we must differ.”
2.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(d) CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
191744-28“His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was hidden in the sepulchure whereas he was alive, demonstrating within the narrow tomb the power of Spirit to overrule mortal material sense.”I Cor.15:3,4“Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture and that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.”
Rom.14:9“Christ both died and rose.”
1917313-26“To accommodate himself to immature ideas of spiritual power Jesus called the body, which by spiritual power he raised from the grave, “flesh and bones.”I Cor.15:20“But now is Christ risen from the dead.”
Matt.16:21“From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.”
191746-2“They saw him after his crucifixion and learned that he has not died.”Rev.1:18“I am HE that liveth, and was dead.”
3.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(a) CONCERNING THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN AND THE REALITY OF HIS KINGDOM
Assertion by the AuthorDeclaration of the Holy Scriptures
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1917187-10“The beliefs of the human mind rob and enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive personification, named Satan.II Cor.11:14“Satan himself”
John8:44“The devil, murderer, abode not in the truth, liar, and the father of it.”
Luke4:3-6“and the devil said unto him,”
1917584-17“DEVIL. Evil, a lie error;”Luke7:21“He cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits.”
191779-17“Jesus cast out evil spirits, or false beliefs.”Luke4:41“And devils also came out of many crying out, and saying Thou are Christ, the Son of God.' And, He rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that He was Christ.”
191770-9“The supposition that there are good and evil spirits is a mistake.”
3.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(b) CONCERNING THE FACT OF SIN
1917447-24“There is no sin.”Rom.3:23“All have sinned.”
191771-2“Evil has no reality.”Rom.7:21“Evil is present with me.”
1917188-4“The belief of sin, which has grown terrible in strength and influence, is an unconscious error in the beginning.”John16:8“He (the Holy Spirit) will convince the world of sin.”
Rom.5:12“…as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
1917281-22“We shall learn that sin and mortality are without actual origin or rightful existence.”Ezek.18:4“The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”
1917288-22“Soul is sinless”Psl.51:4“Against thee, thee only have I sinned.”
1917311-12“It is a sense of sin and not a sinful soul which is lost.”
1917475-28“Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death.”I John1:10“If we say we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.”
1917481-28“Soul is the divine Principle of man and never sins.”
1917339-28“To get rid of sin through Science is to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality.”Prov.14:9“Fools make a mock at sin.”
3.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(c) CONCERNING SICKNESS, DISEASE, AND DEATH
1917415-4“Sin, disease, and death have no foundation in Truth.”Matt.4:24-26“They brought unto him all sick people.”
1917393-29“Man is never sick, for Mind is not sick and matter cannot be.”Matt.8:16“He healed all that were sick.”
1917421-18“There is no disease.”John11:3-6“Lord behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.”
1917394-1“Sickness is not real”Psl.103:3“Who healeth all thy diseases.”
1917402-15“In Science, nor breakage, or dislocation can really occur.”Matt.10:8“Heal the sick, cleanse the leper.”
Acts3:2“A certain man, lame from his mother's womb.”
1917584-9“DEATH – An Illusion.”John11:14“Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.”
3.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(d) CONCERNING SALVATION
191722-23“Final deliverance from error is not reached through paths of flowers, not by pinning one's faith without works to another's vicarious effort.”Eph.2:8,9“For by grace are ye saved through faith not of works, lest any man should boast.”
191711-12“Divine Principle never pardons our sins, or mistakes till they are corrected.”Eph4:32“God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
3.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURE.
(e) CONCERNING PRAYER
19177-8“Audible prayer is impressive but does it produce any lasting benefit?”James5:16“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
19177-23“God is not influenced by man.”Psl.34:6“This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.”
19177-27“The danger from prayer is that it may lead us into temptation.”Matt.6:13“And lead us not into temptation.”
19175-22“Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion.”Psl.32:5“I acknowledged my sin unto thee and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.”
19175-25“If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is canceled and that man is made better merely by praying, prayer is evil.”I John1:9“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
191712-1“The prayer of faith shall save the sick, says the Scripture. What is this healing prayer?  A mere request that God will heal the sick has no power to gain more of the divine presence than is always at hand.  The beneficial effect of such prayer for the sick is on the human mind, making it act more powerfully on the body through a blind faith in God.”James5:15“The prayer of faith shall save the sick.”
I Kings13:6“And the King answered and said unto the man of God. 'Entreat now the face of the Lord, thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.'  And, the man of God besought the LORD, and the King's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.”
19172-18“The mere habit of pleading with the divine Mind as one pleads with a human being, perpetuates the belief in God as humanly circumscribed, an error which impedes spiritual growth.”Phil.4:6,7“In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
4.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
191755-27“In the words of St. John, 'He shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever.'  This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science.”John16:7,8“If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you, and when He is come, He will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.”
I Cor.6:19“Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit?”
1917309-24“The Science of being shows it to be impossible for infinite Spirit or Soul to be in a finite body.”I Cor.3:16“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
5.  THE PROPAGANDA OF “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” IN RELATION TO THE PERSONALITY OF GOD
1917465-8What is God?  God is incorporeal, divine supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principles.”Gen.1:1“God created” (Can “principle” create?)
Matt.3:17“This is my beloved Son.”  (Can “principle” speak?)
1917331-18“He is divine Principle.”Heb.1:3“The express image of his person.”  (God is a person.)
1917587-5“God Principle”John4:24“Worship Him.” (The Personal Pronoun)
1917109-16“I know the Principle of all harmonious Mind-action to be God.”I Peter3:21,22“Jesus Christ, who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God.” (God possesses Personality – Place – Presence.)
I Timothy 6:20,21 – “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy truth, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:  Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee.”  AMEN