NEW AGE HEALING CULT OF MARY BAKER EDDY: "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" - NEITHER CHRISTIAN NOR SCIENTIFIC
For more on
Christian Science see the website:
http://www.CHRISTIANWAY.
ORG. See our playlist "Dealing with
Anti Christ Cults, "
New Age" &
World Religions" at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL69A3047B3497590A with 41 videos.
Larry Wessels, director of
Christian Answers of
Austin, Texas/ Christian Debater (
YouTube channel CANSWERSTV at https://www.youtube.com/user/CAnswersTV; websites: http://www.BIBLEQUERY.ORG, http://www.HISTORYCART.
COM & http://www.MUSLIMHOPE.COM) presents another broadcast of his radio program "Christian Answers
Live!" hosted by Lee Meckley. The special guest for this broadcast is
Jeff Fitzgerald, staff apologist & researcher for the organization "Christian Way" located in
Phoenix, AZ ("
We are former
Christian Scientists -- former followers of
Mary Baker Eddy, her religion, & her "textbook". We have all found a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ that is based upon the
Bible and not upon its spiritual interpretation as presented in "
Science and Health." Our members belong to a variety of denominations, but we hold certain core beliefs that are central to
Biblical Christianity."
Of all the biblically-based cults in
America today, Christian Science is one of the most ironic. Not only does it deny the essential doctrines of Christianity, but it has completely reinterpreted the Bible. It drastically redefines the Bible's culture and terminology and rips thousands of scriptures out of their historical and biblical contexts. The result is a non-Christian mixture of metaphysical and philosophical thoughts. Christian Science is so foreign to the Bible that, if it didn't use words like
Jesus,
Trinity,
Love,
Grace, Sin, etc., you'd never suspect it had anything to do with the Bible at all. Additionally, the book "Science and Health with
Key to the
Scriptures" written by "mind science" follower Mary Baker Eddy which is the
Christian Scientist's mainstay of spiritual knowledge, reads with a rhythm of pseudo-logical statements that has the tendency to dull the senses. Is Christian Science Christian? No! This religion claims physical healing but has led to many deaths, particularly of children.
"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is the primary interpretive source of the Bible and source guide of "Christian Science." It interprets the Bible in a radically different way. It is so different, in fact, that it absolutely rejects the substitutionary atonement of Jesus and states that it had no efficacious value (
S&H;, 25:6). It denies that Jesus is God, second person of the Trinity (S&H;, 361:12-13). It says that sin is a false interpretation of
Divine Mind and is nonexistent (S&H;, 335:7-15). And it says that the
Holy Spirit is
Divine Science which is best represented by Christian Science (
S & H, 331:31).
The list can go on and, unfortunately, it does.
To the Christian Scientist, God (the Father-Mother) is a Principle known as the Divine Mind. It has no personhood and no personality. A catch phrase used in their literature is that God is "
All in All." In other words, God is all that exists and what we perceive
as matter is an interpretation of divine mind. Since
God is love, it means that sin and sickness are only errors of interpreting the Divine Mind and have no true reality (S & H, 330:25-274; 470:9-14).
To the Christian Scientist, Jesus is a Way-shower. He is someone who epitomized the true principle of the
Christ Consciousness which indwells us all. Therefore, Jesus did not really die on the cross. He was not God in flesh. He made no atonement in shedding His blood (S&H;, 25:6).
Christian Science teaches that man does not have a sinful nature and is a reflection of Divine Mind. To achieve "salvation," he needs only to find the true reality of understanding, as revealed in Christian Science teachings.
Unfortunately, these teachings are from Mary Baker Eddy a woman who founded the religion in the
1870's and are not from God.
Rather much of what
Eddy has put into her "
Science &
Health" book came from her occultic associations (see
Deuteronomy 18:9-14) & her plagiarisms from mind scientist
P.P. Quimby's manuscripts concerning his so-called "Science of Health." In
1862 Eddy committed herself to Quimby's care to heal her of her "spinal inflammation" which she claimed he did via his "Science of Health."
The Christian Scientists consider their philosophy to be consistent with the original teachings of Jesus. But the reality is that Christian Science has only produced unbiblical and false doctrines.The fires of hell will be a bitter reality for those who have been taught that they don't exist.
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FEW BIBLE SCRIPTURES THAT EASILY PROVE "
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" FALSE:
1.
Authority of the Bible :
Psalm 119:
140,
Isaiah 40:8,
2 Timothy 3:16
2.
Atonement,
Death &
Resurrection of Christ:
Exodus 12:13,
Leviticus 17:11, Psalm 22, Isaiah 53,
Daniel 9:26,
Matthew 26:28, 28:
5-7,
Luke 24:39,
John 1:29, 19:33,
Romans 5:6-8,
Ephesians 1:7,
Colossians 1:20.