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Much energy and concern is expended by christian scientists regarding aggressive mental suggestion, and it's close cousin, malicious animal magnetism /animal.
We find in the textbook, science and health with key to the scriptures by mary baker eddy, the discoverer and founder of christian science, as well as in her other writings, many references to the illusions under which mortals labor, or to the illusory nature of the various forms under which so-called mortal mind attempts to simulate reality.
According to her theology, sin, sickness, and death were only illusions. If a christian science practitioner died, it could only mean that they were thinking wrongly - or that eddy's theories were.
On page 368 of the christian science textbook, science and health with key to the scriptures, mary baker eddy, the discoverer and founder of christian science, writes: because matter has no consciousness or ego, it cannot act: its conditions are illusions, and these false conditions are the source of all seeming sickness.
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4 jan 1985 such a casual statement surprises the christian scientist as much as it must surprise most other readers.
Autore: john whitehead; categoria: lingua straniera - inglese; lunghezza: 252 pagine; anno: 1907.
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Mark twain has fallen among the christian scientists, and relates his experiences in the october number of the cosmopolitan.
Eddy has clearly indicated the mental nature of disease—classifying it as illusory. According to webster's dictionary, an illusion is a state of being deceived, a false.
In this brochure the author makes an earnest endeavour to understand christian science and define its mission.
The illusions of christian science, its philosophy rationally examined this is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online.
The american medical association (ama) declared war on christian scientists; in 1895 its journal called christian science and similar ideas molochs to infants, and pestilential perils to communities in spreading contagious diseases. Juries were nevertheless reluctant to convict when defendants believed they were helping the patient.
Christian science contends that illness is an illusion caused by faulty beliefs, and that prayer heals by replacing bad thoughts with good ones. Christian science practitioners work by trying to argue the sick thoughts out of the patient’s mind.
He said, “it was clearly a case of misdirection” (which is what magic is all about, and also what animal magnetism is all about).
It is this practical element that is supposed by eddy to take christianity and turn it into a “science,” hence “christian science.
Each one blindly hugs its own pet illusion and persecutes the revelator who disturbs its dream with the awakening truth. When christian science challenged the mortal contradiction of the ages by boldly declaring that all which seems opposed to the action of infinite mind is not true, but mortal illusion, it was scorned by the dominant forces.
The book science and health is acknowledged by the leaders and members of the christian science church to be the complete explanation of christian science. Its author spent many years writing and revising this book, in which she lays out all the principles of christian science.
When a person dies, christian science teaches, only his belief of matter dies. Man is spiritual, and at “death” he goes on doing whatever he was doing, for death is simply an illusion. Moreover, since all is “mind,” hell and heaven are only states of mind. The bible, however, repeatedly affirms that all men are sinners.
The early popularity of christian science was tied directly to the promise engendered by its core beliefs: the promise of healing. The overwhelming majority of those attracted to the movement came.
“christian science” denies the great facts which jesus christ and his apostles taught. The angel said to mary, “thou shalt call his name jesus, for he shall save.
At the core of christian science is the teaching that illness is an illusion caused by faulty beliefs, and that prayer heals by replacing erroneous thoughts with spiritual (true) ideas.
1 aug 2008 dina mayne was the only member of her family who shared her mother's christian science faith.
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Christian science is a set of beliefs and practices belonging to the metaphysical family of new religious movements.
Just as christian science rejects the reality of christ’s body due to its denial of all material matter, so also it must reject the reality of christ’s death on the cross, since neither the cross nor christ’s body actually exist.
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