Is Christian Science Christian?
Christian Science beliefs are Christian. We follow Jesus Christ and his example to love and heal in Christian Science.
Church members (Christian Scientists) view Jesus as the beloved Son of God, the most spiritual man to walk the planet, and the full expression of the Christ.
Jesus is the human man, and Christ is the divine idea; hence the duality of Jesus the Christ.
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 473:15
The Christian Science church was established in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy when a vote was held…
To organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.
Church Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, p, 17
Eddy speaks about Jesus in the Tenets of Christian Science which are important points that Christian Scientists follow in their everyday lives. Here are three of them:
4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 496
Read all of the tenets which describe more about Christian Science beliefs.
More about Christ Jesus.
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