Christian Science
Mary Ann Morse Baker, a sickly lady, one day fell on the sidewalk and was questionably declared “incurable” and given three days to live. On the third day, she read Matthew 9:2 and rose completely healed. Hence came about “Christian Science”.
Her ideas about thology and revelation are partially plagiarized from P.P. Quimby, according to the New York Times, July 10, 1904.
The attending physician, Dr. Alvin M. Cushing, denied under oath that he ever believed or said that she was in any precarious physical condition.
Horace T. Wentworth, said of her, “As I have seen the amazing spread of this delusion and the way in which men and women are offering up money and lives of their children to it, I have felt it is a duty I owe to the public to make it known… I desire only that people who take themselves and their helpless children into Christian Science shall do so with the full knowledge that this is not divine revelation but simply the idea of an old-time Maine healer.”
Indeed, upon theology, Baker’s ideas are quite different from Biblical truth.
“Devil. Evil; a lie” “Death. An illusion.” “Matter has no life, hence it has no real existence. Mind is immortal.”
Christian Science is a perversion of the Christian faith that is propounded by a sickly lady who made millions off of her books, in which she made selling a point of membership in her church.
In the words of Horace T. Wentworth, “I desire only that people who take themselves and their helpless children into Christian Science shall do so with the full knowledge that this is not divine revelation but simply the idea of an old-time Maine healer.”
Jared Williams
Her ideas about thology and revelation are partially plagiarized from P.P. Quimby, according to the New York Times, July 10, 1904.
The attending physician, Dr. Alvin M. Cushing, denied under oath that he ever believed or said that she was in any precarious physical condition.
Horace T. Wentworth, said of her, “As I have seen the amazing spread of this delusion and the way in which men and women are offering up money and lives of their children to it, I have felt it is a duty I owe to the public to make it known… I desire only that people who take themselves and their helpless children into Christian Science shall do so with the full knowledge that this is not divine revelation but simply the idea of an old-time Maine healer.”
Indeed, upon theology, Baker’s ideas are quite different from Biblical truth.
- According to Haldeman, Christian Science believes the Bible is “full of hundreds of thousands of textual errors… its divinity is...uncertain, its inspiration...questionable...it is made up of metaphors, allegories, myths, and fables… It cannot be read and interpreted literally”
- No trinity - “The theory of three persons in one God suggests polytheism rather than the one ever-present I am.
- Jesus was not Christ - “The spiritual Christ was infallible; Jesus, as material manhood, was not Christ.”
- Old Testament God was fake - “The Jewish tribal Jehovah was a man-projected God, liable to wrath, repentance, and human changeableness.”
- Spirit is everything, matter is illusion. “God is All-in-all. God is good. Good is Mind. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter.
- Evil and sickness does not really exist - “The sick are not healed merely by declaring there is no sickness, but by knowing that there is none.” “Sickness is part of the error that Truth casts out.” “The so-called miracles contained in Holy Writ are neither supernatural nor preternatural… Jesus regarded good as the normal state of man, and evil as the abnormal...The so-called pains and pleasures of matter were alike unreal to Jesus; for he regarded matter as only a vagary of mortal belief and subdued it with this understanding.”
- Man is in no need of salvation. “Man as God’s idea is already saved with an everlasting salvation.” “One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin.”
- On heaven and hell. - “The sinner makes his own hell by doing evil and the saint his own heaven by doing right.”
- On man - “Man is God’s image and likeness; whatever is possible to God, is possible to man as God’s reflection.
“Devil. Evil; a lie” “Death. An illusion.” “Matter has no life, hence it has no real existence. Mind is immortal.”
Christian Science is a perversion of the Christian faith that is propounded by a sickly lady who made millions off of her books, in which she made selling a point of membership in her church.
In the words of Horace T. Wentworth, “I desire only that people who take themselves and their helpless children into Christian Science shall do so with the full knowledge that this is not divine revelation but simply the idea of an old-time Maine healer.”
Jared Williams
