Christian Science Exposed.

[KiwiChristian]

"Christian Science" is a false religion! Just as Joseph Smith founded the Mormons in 1830, and Charles Taze Russell founded the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1874, so Mary Baker Eddy founded the Christian Science religion in 1879. Following are the bizarre beginnings of the satanic cult of "Christian Science." According to Quackwatch.org...

"In about 1850, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine used Anton Mesmer's ideas of animal magnetism to develop his own healing approach. Quimby would place his hands on a sick patient's head and abdomen and encourage supposed magnetic healing forces to flow through them. He claimed that diagnosis and cure resulted from the individual's faith in him. He professed that conventional medicine was useless, that disease itself was "error," and that only health was "truth."

In 1862, Quimby treated Mary Baker Glover for a spinal problem that had failed to respond to orthodox medical care. The water massage and hypnotism that he used reportedly had a positive effect. On awakening from her trance Glover found herself cured. She concluded, however, that her cure was not due to Quimby but to "truth in Christ." In 1875 she published Science and Health, which described her theories about religion based on the Bible and some of Quimby's ideas. She said that God was the author and that she was only the writer. In 1877 she married for the third time, becoming Mary Baker Eddy, and named her new philosophy Christian Science. The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879."

At the core of Christian Science is the teaching that illness is an illusion caused by faulty beliefs, and that prayer heals by replacing erroneous thoughts with spiritual (true) ideas. Consequently, healing (and health care) is attempted not through physical manipulation of patients' bodies through drugs, surgery, or otherwise, but rather through prayer and spiritualization of thought. Christian Science practitioners claim that it is both therapeutic (i.e. curative) and preventative.

Christian Scientists deny the deity of Jesus Christ, deny the Godhead, deny Christ's blood atonement and deny the sinfulness of mankind. The following quote is by Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980), from his excellent book, "FALSE DOCTRINES" (available from Sword of the Lord publishers), pg. 128,129...

"Before me is the Christian Science Sentinel of December 22, 1934.  On page 330 is an editorial which states part of the infidelity of Christian Science which is mentioned many times in Christian Science literature--that is, its teaching that Jesus is not God.

Here is the statement.

'Christian Science is doing much to clarify the thoughts of men regarding the great Way-shower. Among other things, it is correcting THE FALLACY THAT JESUS IS GOD.'

The teaching that Jesus is God, Christian Science says, is a fallacy, that is, is false.  Christian Science everywhere teaches that Jesus was kin to God only in the same way that every other man is.  Christian Science says much about the life of Jesus, the teaching of Jesus, and so on, but denies the fact of His deity, denies that His blood atones for man's sin, denies that Jesus is very God."

SOURCE: Dr. John R. Rice, from the book, "FALSE DOCTRINES," pages 128-129, copyright SWORD OF THE LORD

The following doctrines are referenced from the Christian Science work, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES," by Mary Baker Eddy. It is supposed to be a companion to the Bible.

  God is infinite...and there is no other power or source, S&H, 471:18.

  God is Universal Principle, S&H 331:18-19

  God cannot indwell a person, S&H 336:19-20

  God is the only intelligence in the universe, including man S&H 330:11-12

  God is Mind, S&H 330:20-21; 469:13

  God is the Father-Mother, S&H 331:30; 332:4

  The Trinity is Life, Truth, and Love, S&H 331:26

  Belief in the traditional doctrine of the Trinity is polytheism, S&H 256:9-11

  Christ is the spiritual idea of sonship S&H 331:30-31

  Jesus was not the Christ, S&H 333:3-15; 334:3

  "Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared..." S&H 361:12-13

  Jesus did not reflect the fullness of God, S&H 336:20-21

  Jesus did not die, S&H 45:32-46:3

  The Holy Spirit is divine science, S&H 331:31

  There is no devil, S&H 469:13-17

  There is no sin, S&H 447:24

  Evil and good are not real, S&H, 330:25-27; 470:9-14

  Matter, sin, and sickness are not real, but only illusions,"  S&H 335:7-15; 447:27-28.

  Life is not material or organic, "S&H, 83:21

  The sacrifice of Jesus was not sufficient to cleanse from sin, "S&H, 25:6.

  True healings are the result of true belief, "S&H, 194:6"

[Alan]

So, what about secular science that has no religious motivation? What purpose do thousands of scientists dedicating their lives to research have to gain by disagreeing with the bible, many of which know nothing of it's content?

[Texas Conservative]

So, what about secular science that has no religious motivation? What purpose do thousands of scientists dedicating their lives to research have to gain by disagreeing with the bible, many of which know nothing of it's content?

I believe he is referring to the church grouping.  Not Christian vs secular science.

[Alan]

I believe he is referring to the church grouping.  Not Christian vs secular science.

My mistake, that's what I get for not reading carefully .


Carry on Kiwi

[KiwiChristian]

My mistake, that's what I get for not reading carefully .


Carry on Kiwi

Yes, the Christian Science cult started by mary baker eddy