What is Christian Science?

Such is the name of a new substitute for the Personal Christ the Son of God and His redemption. It is of American growth, but not limited to the U. S., Brazil, and Canada; for it has already sent forth suckers into England and Scotland, France and Germany. This is the language in which the Rev. Geo. Tomkins, D.D. (formerly a Baptist minister), speaks of its rise:— "THE REVELATION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE [the emphasis is his own] came to Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy in the year 1866 and its truth and power were immediately demonstrated by signs following." … "It is the perfect salvation from sin and sorrow, disease and death, which Christ Jesus came to bring. Christian Science, in a word, is the law of God — Good, Principle, Being, Life, Truth, Love, and Eternal Harmony — put into practice here and now.

This however, and almost all else, is but tall talk and empty vapour. Coming closer, is not Christ only "Impersonal" Truth? "Once we thought that each mortal had a soul of his own, and that this soul could be divided from spirit; but in the light of Christian Science we know that there is but one soul, one Spirit, and that God; and that this two-edged sword, Truth, separates all the beliefs of mortal mind from the thoughts of divine mind." … It "boldly declares there is no personality, neither personal good, personal evil, nor personal men!" Such is the use made of 2 Cor. 5:16. This awful delusion openly denies not only the Father and the Son, but also the devil and a man as persons. It is thus more daringly opposed to all truth than Judaism or even Paganism, and leaves no room for that association of the believer with God the Father, through the Lord Jesus the Son, which we know as Christians. It is one of the many antichrists against which the Epistles of John so solemnly warn us as to be in the last time.

Take another and distinct proof of its blasphemy. "This Christ-Truth is His second coming, which is mentioned and referred to in the Bible over three hundred times." … "Now He has come — IMPERSONALLY!" "We consciously [? confidently] declare that 'Science and Health, with key to the Scriptures' was foretold as well as its author [Dr. T.'s italics], Mary Baker Eddy in Revelation 10. She is the 'mighty angel,' or God's highest thought to this age (verse 1) giving us the spiritual interpretation of the Bible in the 'little book open' (verse 2)." Naturally and necessarily therefore Mrs. Eddy's little book supersedes the Bible, as Swedenborg's volumes do for the N. J. church, and Joe Smith and Pratt's impostures for the Mormonites; yet they all pretend to accept the Scriptures!!! Alas! it is as hollow and guilty, as when a feast was proclaimed to Jehovah; but in reality Israel worshipped a molten image, having changed their glory for an ox that eateth grass.

In our examination of Christian Science we shall find it inextricably bound up with the life of the late Mrs. Eddy, who claimed to be “The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.” Its authoritative text-book, written by her, is entitled “Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures.”

For example, take an utterly antichristian cult such as Christian Science. The Bible is read at all their public meetings. The unwary are likely to come to the conclusion that the cult, seeing it apparently exalts the Scriptures, must be a good one. But we know that they deny the very fundamentals of the Christian faith. They refuse the Deity of our Lord. They deny that His death was an atoning death. Their reading the Bible, and apparently paying homage to it, are but the devices of Satan—Satan camouflaging himself as an angel of light.

For example, take an utterly antichristian cult such as Christian Science. The Bible is read at all their public meetings. The unwary are likely to come to the conclusion that the cult, seeing it apparently exalts the Scriptures, must be a good one. But we know that they deny the very fundamentals of the Christian faith. They refuse the Deity of our Lord. They deny that His death was an atoning death. Their reading the Bible, and apparently paying homage to it, are but the devices of Satan—Satan camouflaging himself as an angel of light.

The whole Gospel is denied by Christian Science, and the faith of the redeemed of all ages is described as “unnatural” and “man-made.”

There is absolutely nothing in common between the statement of Christian Science and that of Scripture.

By this test Christian Science must be adjudged Christian or anti-Christian. By this test it must stand or fall. There is no possible middle ground. To be unsound as to the person of Christ is to vitiate everything else. What planet can be right in relation to the other planets, if it is out of relation to the central sun! Christ is the central Sun of Christianity.

One cannot understand how sensible, educated people can believe such nonsense as no substance in matter. Genesis 1 gives it the lie direct. God created the heaven and the earth, the mountains, the flowing streams, the rocks, the valleys, the seas, the trees, flowers, fruits, animals, man, and looking upon it proclaimed it as very good. God created matter, which Christian Science says has no substance.

Christian Science Denies the existence of Sin, Disease and Death

The Bible is the only book that reveals the beginning and the end of things. It is the only book that tells us what sin is, that gives us a standard, and the only book that explains what death is and what comes after death. The Christian Scientist tells us that death does not exist. Yet Christian Scientists are like other people. Not even their leader, Mrs. Eddy, who invented this harebrained travesty of religion, developed the imagination that kept her from death. The Spiritists say that death is a new birth. The man in the street says that it is the debt of nature. The Bible solemnly tells us that it is “THE WAGES OF SIN” (Rom. 6:23).