Christian Science Versus the Bible

How scripture refutes this false system.

By ROBERT F. CORREIA  Ministerial Intern, Potomac Conference

 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

  1. "Mortal man is really a self-contradictory phrase, for man is not mortal, neither indeed can be." 478:30. (476:10.)
  2. Mortal body is erroneous mortal belief. (372:2.)
  3. "Man is immortal." 426:29. (546:1.)
  4. "Sin, sickness, and death .. . are without a real origin or existence." 286:31.
  5. "We cannot escape the penalty due for sin." 6:1.
  6. "It is a sense of sin, and not a sinful soul, which is lost." 311:12.
  7. "In Science we learn . . . not soul, which sins." 481 :29.
  8. "Man is incapable of sin. . . . The real man cannot depart from holiness." 475:28.
  9. "One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin." 23:3.
  10. "The design of love is to reform the sinner." 35:30.
  11. 'There is HO death." 331:16; 427:32.
  12. "Man never dies." 486:10. "Body cannot die." 426:30.
  13. "Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus-had never died." 75:13.
  14. "Heaven is not a locality." 291:13.
  15. "There is but one way to heaven, harmony." 242:9.
  16. "God is a divine Principle." 272:29. (302:21.)"Christ came to destroy the belief of sin." 473:6.
  17. "The material blood of Jesus was no more effi­cacious to cleanse from sin when it was shed upon the accursed tree, than when it was flowing in His veins as He went about His Father's business." 25:6.
  18. "His three days' work in the sepulcher. . . . His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while He was hidden in the sepulcher, whereas he was alive." 44:7, 28.
  19. "The virgin mother conceived this idea of God, and gave to her ideal the name of Jesus." 29:17.
  20. 'This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science." 55 :28.
  21. "Angels. God's thought passing to man; spir­itual intuitions." 581:4.
  22. "No final judgment awaits mortals." 291:28.
  23. "Spirit never created matter." 335:8.
  24. "You cannot separate sin from the sinner. Nor the sinner from his sin." Retrospect and Intro­spect, p. 87.
  25. "The second appearing of Jesus is the spiritual advent of the advancing idea of God as in Chris­tian Science."-Ibid., p. 96.

The beliefs of the Church of Christ, Scientist, column 1, are taken from Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. References are to page numbers, and the figure that appears after the colon in each case is the line on the page.

Twenty-six claims of Christian Science are presented in column I, and the corresponding number in column gives the Bible refutation.

THE BIBLE

  1.  "Shall mortal man be more just than God ?" Job. 4:17. (1 Cor. 15:53, 54.)
  2. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body." Rom. 6:12. (Rom. 8 a 1.)
  3. God "only has immortality." 1 Tim. 6:16.
  4.  "Iniquity was found in thee." "Jesus . . . heal­ing all manner of sickness." "Dead are raised." Eze. 28 :15 ; Matt. 4 :23 ;         :5.
  5. Save from their sins. (Matt. I :21.) "Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." "He is the propitiation for our sins." Isa. 53:6; I John 2:2.
  6.  "Lose his own soul." Mark 8:36.
  7. "Soul that sinneth." Eze. 18:4.
  8. "All have sinned." Rom. 3:23. "If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His-word is not in us." I John 1:10.
  9. "He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself." Heb. 9:26. "For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Rom. 5:19.
  10. 10. Christ came "to save sinners." I Tim. i :15.
  11.  Adam died. (Gen. 5:5.) Moses died. (Dent. 34:3.) Jesus died. (John 19:33.)
  12. 'Dead body." Jer. 26:23. "Kill the body." Matt. 10 :28; Luke 12:4.
  13. Jesus said, "Lazarus is dead." John xi :14. 
  14.  Jesus said, "I go to prepare a place," "in My Father's house." John 14:2. His Father is in heaven. Matt. 6:9.
  15.  Jesus said, "I am the way." John 14:6.
  16.  "God is a Spirit." John 4:24. (Heb. 1:3; John 14:8, 9.)
  17. Christ came to save sinners. (Matt. I :21 ; I Tim. 1:13.)
  18. "Without shedding of blood is no remission." Heb. 9:22.. Reconciled by the cross. (Eph. 2:16.) "Peace through the blood of His cross." Col. 1 :20. Bare our sins on the tree, that we should live. (I Peter 2:24.)
  19. "He was risen from the dead." John 21 :14. "Christ died . . . according to the Scriptures." Cor. 15:3. 
  20. Christ is risen from the dead. (Verse 20.)
  21. "She brought forth her first-born son." "His name was called Jesus." Luke 2:7, 21.
  22. "The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost." John 14:26.
  23. "Are they not all ministering spirits?" Heb. 1:14. (Matt. 28:1-7.)
  24. "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ." 2 Cor. 5:1o. (Acts 17:31.)
  25. "God is a Spirit." John 4:24.
  26. "In beginning God created." Gen. I :1. 
  27. Out of things which do not appear-created matter out of nothing. (Heb. it :3.)
  28. "As far as the east is from the west, so far bath He removed our transgressions from us." Ps. 103:12.
  29. "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout." 1 Thess. 4:16. "He corn­eth with clouds ; and every eye shall see Him." Rev, 1:7. "This same Jesus . . . shall so come in like mariner as ye have seen Him go into heaven" Acts i :LT.

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By ROBERT F. CORREIA  Ministerial Intern, Potomac Conference

November 1945

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