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Christian and Science

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy (p.135):

It has been said, and truly, that Christianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one or the other is false and useless; but neither is unimportant or untrue, and they are alike in demonstration. This proves the one to be identical with the other. Christianity as Jesus taught it was not a creed, nor a system of ceremonies, nor a special gift from a ritualistic Jehovah; but it was the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth, but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of divine light.  [Emphasis added.]

 

In this article, I will begin with the Science aspect of the name Mrs. Eddy gave to her discovery, only because I know what I wish to say at the moment, and not necessarily because it is more important than the Christian aspect.

Mary Baker Eddy considered her discovery as the true, supreme science.  The word science derives ultimately from its Latin root meaning, "to know."  Mrs. Eddy made clear in her writings her discovery that God is Mind, and one of Mind's functions is to know.  This knowing includes no doubt or uncertainty, but is absolute, unchanging, even law.

What is it that God knows?  His spiritual ideas, the universe, including man. Ideas are what are seen, known, by Mind, and they are inseparable from the Mind that conceives them.  Hence they are forever maintained by Mind.

The word idea can be contrasted with the word idol to give us an important distinction in Christian Science.  Whereas both denote "an image in mind," the spiritual idea signifies the image in divine Mind, while idol signifies the image in mortal mind--it is what that which we call me seems to see that divine Mind does not see, that which we call evil.

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