2 S49 +f he .? Sass | Hs Hf) ae aa wie leis: = > Tale brit ey re arralY Liber h Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library httos://archive.org/details/biblechristianscOOjohn The Bible and Christian Science A Review of ‘‘Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures” in Relation to Holy Scripture By ALLEN W. JOHNSTON Author of “The Roman Catholic Bible and The Roman Catholic Church’’ New York CHICAGO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH Copyright, 1924, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY Printed in the United States of America New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street Introduction S few men have who write, Allen W. John- ston has the grace of tolerance and the pen of courtesy. His style is simple and direct ; - his writing is as transparently genuine as his life. In reading the manuscript of The Bible and Christian Science, | was impressed, first of all, with the fact that, however widely some of his readers may differ with him, however earnestly any may question the wisdom of his searching Scriptural analysis of the faith to which so many thousands of his fellowmen have given their alle- giance, no one will ever be able, in fairness, to charge him with literary trickery, narrow intoler- ance, or that bitterness of spirit which expresses itself in “ invidious personalities.” In his Preface, and throughout the crowded pages which follow, Mr. Johnston has remembered that the grace wherewith we differ is from above, and that it is from thence we learn doctrine. To those who accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God; who find in it the way of life; who take from its pages infallible directions for the guidance of the immortal soul, and who may have been deeply troubled by some of the omissions, as well as by many of the claims of Christian Science, 3 4 INTRODUCTION Mr. Johnston’s book will come most opportunely. From the standpoint of Christian faith and experi- ence, the volume is entirely constructive. It hon- ours Jesus as the Christ, and, if it is searching in its criticism and condemnatory in its conclusions, responsibility must attach itself not to Mr. John- ston, nor to the supreme text-book which he has made his commentary and guide, but to Christian Science itself. DANIEL A. PoLine. Marble Collegiate Church, New York, N.Y. Preface ERSONS of various minds having varied walks in life have accepted so-called Chris- tian Science as a belief or creed. It is proper, therefore, that the writer show due cour- tesy, although he finds the creed unworthy of the confidence placed in it by its adherents. ‘This book is written with hope that it will be read by advo- cates of “ Christian Science.”’ We find in “ Science and Health and The Key ” undue exalting of “Mind, Soul, Spirit,” and God as “ Divine principle of man,” and “ Christ existing in the eternal order of divine science,” but do not find the spirit of the meek and lowly Jesus. The beliefs of “ Science and Health” are ex-. pressed therein from many standpoints and angles. In confronting these beliefs with Holy Scripture we quote from Scripture frequently and sometimes repeat the verses quoted so as to apply directly. We have endeavoured to avoid invidious person- | alities, and sought to follow the spirit of Christ, through whom grace is given to discern truth. The author uses the abbreviation S. & H. for the book “ Science and Health with Key to the Scrip- tures,” (Copyright extended, 1917). AV Schenectady, N.Y. Contents RUATONEMEN T-—HUCHARIST AHR uh oa . SCIENCE, ‘THEOLOGY, MEDICINE AND PHYSIOLOGY ; ; ; Nr WE Waar ike ed . FootstErsS oF ‘TRUTH — CREATION — SOIENCE) OF (DEIN WLU cae Oe) . “SomE OBJECTIONS ANSWERED ”; “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRACTICE”; “TEACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” . 141 . RECAPITULATION : j d OR LL VAL GENESIS; THE APOCALYPSE . . . 215 I ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST “So shone the pale star to the prophet- shepherds; yet it traversed the night, and came where, in cradled obscurity, lay the Bethlehem babe, the human herald of Christ.”—S. & H. Preface vii: 4-6. Thus “Science and Health” in its Preface begins with a denial of “The Word made flesh.” “Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... . “ And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”— Joun 1:1, 14. “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.’—Matruew 1: 18. Beginning thus wrong, it continues wrong throughout as we believe is herein shown. “The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honoured systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.” —S. & H. Preface vii: 13-14. 9 10 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE The doctrine that God is the Saviour, the Word made flesh, is time-honoured and stands. ‘Truth is one of His names. “Not purloining, but shewsng all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.”’—Titus 2: 10. “ All scripture is given by inspwation of God, and ts profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.’—Il ‘TimoTHY SiO: “Jesus saith unto hem, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’—JOHN 14:6. “The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual un- derstanding of Him, an unselfed love.”— SHA OY Wa ee If the above be true, why is the following ques- tion asked? “Should we implore a corporeal God to heal the sick out of His personal volition, or should we understand the infinite divine Principle which heals? If we rise no higher than blind faith, the Science of healing is not attained.”—S. & H. 167: 1-4. On the way to church one May morning I added to the tulips plucked from my garden a few lilies from the Lord’s garden (the broad field by the ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 11 wayside ) ; those blossoms that toil not neither spin. Those pure and beautiful blooms came from the creator without the cultivating hand of man. Why should we doubt His making the Word flesh that He might dwell among us? We hail as a blessing the fresh, invigorating breeze of spring, the wind that bloweth where it - listethe Why should we doubt its source, (the giver of every good and perfect gift) because we fail to trace the path whence it cometh and whither it goeth, hearing only the sound thereof. “Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today 1s, and tomorrow ts cast mto the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little fasth? ’—Marr. 6: 30. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’—JouHn 1:14. “ Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where st listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so 1s every one that ts born of the Spirtt.’—Joun 3:7, 8. “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God ts with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be lis people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.’—Rkrv. 21: 3. “The only civil sentence which he had for 12 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE error was ‘ Get thee behind me, Satan.’ ”— Rosette Bue be The Saviour’s rebuke to Peter was prompted by Peter’s denial of the atonement, when our Lord told him that he must'make atonement. ‘The author of S. & H. also denies the atonement on page 18 of 'S. & H. as follows: “Atonement is the exemplification of man’s unity with God, whereby man reflects divine Truth, Life, and Love. ... He did life’s work aright not only in justice to him- self, but in mercy to mortals,—to show them how to do theirs, but not to do it for them nor to relieve them of a single responsibil- ity."—S. & H. 18: 1-3, 6-9. “ Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, say- ing, ‘Be st far from thee, Lord: thts shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.’—Matv. 16: 22, 23. When man is born again he does not reflect God, for atonement is the substituting in our place of Jesus Christ; He suffering the punishment for our sins, that through faith in Him we might be saved and be one with Him; not a reflection of Him. “ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all?’—IsataH 53: 6. ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 13 “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I sn thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.’—JoHN 17:21. ‘Jesus acknowledged no ties of the flesh. He said: “ Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heaven.”—S, & H. 31. The above quotation from Matt. 23:9 is not to be construed as referring to earthly parentage. Christ fulfilled the commandment, “ Honour thy father and thy mother,” and in directing John to behold Mary, who bore Him, as his mother, He recognised earthly parentage. In the verse preceding the one quoted, Jesus directed His disciples not to be called “ Rabbi,” and neither were they to call any man upon the earth, “ Father.” (See verse 9.) Jesus again recognized the human ties of father and mother for others, when He replied to the rich young ruler: “Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.” —LuKE 18: 20, “The Passover, which Jesus ate with his disciples in the month Nisan on the night before His crucifixion, was a mournful oc- casion, a sad supper taken at the close of 14 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE day, in the twilight of a glorious career with shadows fast falling around; and this supper closed for ever Jesus’ ritualism or conces- sions to matter.”—S. & H. 32-3: 28-1. ¢ Far from closing His “ concessions to matter,” Jesus directed His disciples to commune likewise in remembrance of Him. “After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testa- ment in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, im remembrance of me.’—I Cor. 11:25. It 1s also evident that He dined with His dis- ciples on the sea-shore after His resurrection. “As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish latd thereon, and bread. ... Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? Knowing that st was the Lord.’—Joun 21:9, 12. And also that He sat at meat and brake bread for those with Him at Emmaus: “And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.’—LvUKE 24: 30. Also He directed the disciples’ attention to His own person as one having flesh and bones. “ And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 15 he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. . . . Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spsrit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.’—LuUKE 24: 30, 39. “Christians, are you drinking his cup? Have you shared the blood of the New Covenant, the persecutions which attend a new and higher understanding of God? If not, can you then say that you have com- memorated Jesus in his cup?”—S. & H. 33: 27-31. All Christians are sharing the blood of the New Covenant, otherwise they are not Christians. “But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels... . And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”—HeEp. 12: 22, 24. “Tf Christ, Truth, has come to us in demonstration, no other commemoration is requisite, for demonstration is Immanuel, or God with us; and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend? ’’—S. & H. 34: 6-9, Memorials are because Christ commanded it. “ And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, Thts is my body which 16 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is given for you: This do in remembrance of me.’— LUKE 22: 19. “This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a new light is the morn- ing meal which Christian Scientists com- memorate.... “They celebrate their Lord’s victory over death, his probation in the flesh after death, its exemplification of human probation, and his spiritual and final ascension above mat- ter, or the flesh, when he rose out of material sight.”—S, & H. 35:10, 11, 14-18. But our Lord commanded His disciples after He had used the bread and the wine to do this in re- membrance of Him. Whatever else is done by His disciples will not compensate for disobeying His command; nor was He finally to dispense with the body of His personality when He ascended from the mount, for the same Jesus that was taken up from them was to come again “in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” “Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given command- ments unto the apostles whom he had chosen.’— Mors 12: While we do not know all that was “ finished ” when Jesus said, while on the Cross, “It is fin- ished,” we do know that before He was upon the Cross He said to His Father in heaven: ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 17 “As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this ts life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth: I have fintshed the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self wth the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” —JoHN 17: 2, 3, 4, 5. It was not Christ without Jesus (who was named by the angel before he was born of Mary) but “Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent” that was to be glorified “ with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” | It was the Jesus who steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem “‘ when the time was come that He should be received up,’ who was with the disciples upon Mount Olivet when He ascended to His Father. “And it came to pass, when the tsme was come that he should be received up, he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.’—LwuxKE 9: 51. It will be recalled that Jesus was to be glorified before the Holy Ghost was to be given, and that He had promised to send the Comforter when He went away. That He said to Mary Magdalene that He had not yet ascended to His Father, also that the promised coming of the Holy Ghost took place 18 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE on the day of Pentecost after His ascension from Mount Olivet. May we not believe that while He was with the disciples upon the Mount Olivet He was to them the same Jesus they had known and that He re- ceived the glorifying from His Father when He ascended to Him? ‘Thus, Jesus Christ, born of Mary, shall come again; this same Jesus who ascended into heaven. “(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should recewe: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” —JouN 7: 39. “Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”— Joun 20: 17. “ But when the Comforter ts come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.’—JoHN 15: 26, While Jesus was here the Holy Ghost was one with Him. “If ye abide tn me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”—JOHN 15:7, The Holy Ghost is the One who leads to all truth. ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 19 “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”—JouN 14: 16, 17. “ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remem- brance, whatsoever I have said unto you.’— Joun 14:26. “Tf ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and st shall be done unto you.”—JOHN 15:7. Scripture makes it plain that no spirit of man or truth of man, or principle in man, can supersede or come before Jesus Christ, the Truth or the Holy Ghost, sent to teach and to lead us into the Truth, Jesus Christ, “ whom to know is life eternal.” Christian Science evidently does not do it. While visiting the sick is “pure religion and undefiled,” it is never in Scripture the thing needful for the obtaining of eternal life; neither is the power of healing, as given to some of the disciples, a general acquirement to be obtained by obeying the require- ments held forth in the Christian Science cult. “Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus ac- cursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are di- versities of gifts, but the same spirit. ... . For to 20 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spint; To another faith by the same Spsrit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit.’—I Cor. 1230458.) 9. “Divine Science reveals the necessity of sufficient suffering, either before or after death, to quench the love of sin. To remit the penalty due for sin, would be for Truth to pardon error. Escape from punishment is not in accordance with God’s government, since justice is the handmaid of mercy.”’— ». & H. 36: 4-9, Truth pardons error through Jesus Christ. Suf- fering is not sufficient to remit the penalty for sin, “God is love ’—He alone can remit the penalty. * And though I have the gift of prophecy, and under- stand all mystertes, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.’— OR GAY Se Truth does pardon error. The pardon is to those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 21 all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases.’— SALMO tLe oO; “There ts therefore now no condemnation to them which are sn Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.’-—Rom, 8:1. Note that the freedom from condemnation is for _ those who walk after the Spirit—* not a spirit.” “ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. . . . Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he wll have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.’—IsataH 55:1, 7. “Who is a God ltke unto thee, that pardoneth in- squity, and passeth by the transgression of the rem- nant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for- ever, because he delighteth in mercy.’—MIcAH HvLS: “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’—IsaiaH 1: 18. “ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath lad on him the iniquity of us all.”’—Isa1aH 53:6. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’—Joun 3:16, 17. . 22 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “¢ Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect!’ ‘Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature!’ “Heal the sick!’ ‘Why has this Christian demand so little inspiration to stir mankind to Christian ef- fort? Because men are assured that this command was intended only for a particular period and for a select number of followers. This teaching is even more pernicious than the old doctrine of foreordination.’—S. & H. 37-38: 28-5. If it is pernicious, as stated by the author of §S. & H., why is the command of the Saviour to “do this in remembrance of me” made to be dead and not practiced by Christian Scientists? “Now is the time for so-called material pains and material pleasures to pass away, for both are unreal, because impossible in Science, “Who will stop the practice of sin so long as he believes in the pleasures of sin? ”— SCE HOO 22-20) 50,00 Le It will be noticed that what is recorded in the Book of the Revelation had not taken place, but was shortly to come to pass. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shorily come to pass; and he sent and signi- ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 23 fied it by his angel unto his servant John.”’— Reve dish) The time when pain is to pass away is not yet come—that time is mentioned. If pain were unreal there could be no necessity for it to “ pass away.” “ And God shall wipe away all tears from thew eyes; ' and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, nesther shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away,’—Rkv. 21:4. “Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.’—Hes, 11:25. The pleasures of sin for a season are a reality, but the wages is death. “ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God $s eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.’— Rom. 6: 23, “Divine Science adjusts the balance as Jesus adjusted it.’"—S. & H. 40: 8. No science can take away sin. There is only one way for that. “ Neither 1s there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.’—Acts 4: 12. “The nature of Christianity is peaceful 24 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE and blessed, but in order to enter into the kingdom, the anchor of hope must be cast beyond the veil of matter into the Shekinah into which Jesus has passed before us.”— o. & H. 40-41: 31-2. Scripture teaches that the nature of Christianity is to accept the salvation offered by Christ and to follow His teachings. To enter into His kingdom it is necessary to be born again, to put on the New Man. “But the natural man receweth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirit- ually discerned.’—I Cor. 2: 14. “Therefore 1f any man be in Christ, he ts a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”—II Cor. 5:17. “The maximum of good is the infinite God and His idea, the All-in-all. Evil is a suppositional lie.’—S. & H. 103: 15. It pleased God to make the tree of knowledge of good and evil to grow. The existence of both zood and evil are real, and are not suppositional. “ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for nm the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’—GrEn, 2:17. Whatever the simile may be intended to represent c ATONEMENT—EUCHARIST 25 it is plain that both good and evil were, and are now realities. It was Jesus Christ who gave us the prayer, “deliver us from evil.’ It is also plain from Scripture that the human mind reasoned to the result of disobedience to God. “ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.’—GEn. 3: 6. IT SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE AND PHYSIOLOGY HAPTERS one to five, inclusive, are given by the author of S. & H. to a discussion of prayer, Atonement, Eucharist, something of Marriage, Spiritualism and Animal Magnetism, from which discussion we have quoted in the fore- going chapter. The author of S. & H. now takes up Science, Theology, Medicine and Physiology. We offer Scripture and comment upon her considerations under those headings. “Tn the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science. God had been graciously preparing me during many years for the reception of this final revelation of the absolute divine Principle of scientific mental healing.”’—S. & H. 107: 1-6. The Scripture which fits best to such discovery as a revelation from God, is the following, written nearly two thousand years ago: 26 SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 27 “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis- dom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit.” —I Cor. 12:8, 9. “There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.’—Acts 5: 16. “But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power upon earth to forgive sins, (he said unto the sick of the palsy,) I say unto thee, Arsse, and take up thy couch, and go into thine house.’—LuKr 5:24. “But the anointing which ye have recewed of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and 1s truth, and ts no Ise, and even as tt hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.’—I JouHn Pat fp First we learn from Scripture that healing is not in this age a discovery ;—Second, that the healing by Christ and His disciples came from the anointing by Jesus Christ, and that no teacher was needed ;— Third, that it was not by any learning through mind, spirit or soul of man that the healing came, but was by the power of God and by faith (the gift of God) in that power. “Tf we this day be examined of the good deed done to the wmpotent man, by what means he is made whole; be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ 28 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.’—Acts 4:9, 10. We also learn from Scripture that healing was among the signs given by our Lord, and accom- panied the purpose of our Lord’s coming that men might believe and be saved. “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.’—I Joun 3: 16. “Whence came to me this heavenly con- viction,—a conviction antagonistic to the testimony of the physical senses? Accord- ing to St. Paul, ‘it was the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual work- ing of his power.’ It was the divine law of Life and Love, unfolding to me the demon- strable fact that matter possesses neither sen- sation nor life ; that human experiences show the falsity of all material things; and that immortal cravings, ‘the price of learning love,’ establish the truism that the only suf- ferer is mortal mind, for the divine Mind cannot suffer.”—S. & H. 108: 1-11. Mortal mind is not the only sufferer. The divine Mind also suffers. Therefore, the unfolding here referred to by Mrs. Eddy could not have been from God, because God is both “ life”? and “ love ”—two of His names given in Scripture. Is there no suf- SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 29 fering of the Holy Ghost when grieved by His erring children so that He makes intercession for them? Was there no suffering by the Father when He gave His only begotten Son that believing we might have eternal life? “ Tskewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmitses: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the spirit ttself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the heart knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh wtercession for the saints according to the will of God.’—Rom. S2)20727; “Tn all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of ius presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and car- ried them all the days of old.’—Isatau 63: 9, “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.’—IsataH 53: 4. “According to the Scripture, I find that God is true, ‘but every (mortal) man a liar.’ ’—S. & H. 113: 23-25. The words “ liar” or “ liars ” occur about twenty times in the Scripture. In no case is it stated that every (mortal) man is a liar. “T said in my haste, All men are liars.” —Psaum 116: 11. 30 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE This statement is given as a hasty expression, not as an existing condition. “For what if some did not believe? Shall their un- belief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid! Yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”—Rom. 3: 3, 4. Paul here refers to the “ faith of God” as true. The last sentence is one of comparison, but does not state that every man is a liar. Scripture does say, however, as follows: “Who ts a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.’—I Joun 2: 22. If the Son is denied, the Father is also denied, because Scripture states: “ He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.’—Joun 5:23. “ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’—JouN 3:17. “Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that God is not corporeal, but incorporeal,—that is, bodiless. Mortals are corporeal, but God is incorporeal.”—S, & H. 116: 20-23. | SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE © 31 God is corporeal in a spiritual body. Here we have the Lord representing Himself with the corporeal parts of face, hands and back parts. “And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my ’ back parts; but my face shall not be seen.’— HxopUSpoo 22. 20: And we remember that man was made in His image, the express image of His person. “Who being the brightness of hts glory, and the ex- press image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. “The point at issue between Christian Science on the one hand, and popular the- ology on the other is this: Shall Science ex- plain cause and effect as being both natural and spiritual? Or shall all that is beyond the cognizance of the material senses be called supernatural, and be left to the mercy of speculative hypotheses? ’”—S. & H. 126: 15-21. While granted that there is both the natural and the spiritual, we make answer to the questions asked. Scripture teaches that the Holy Spirit will 82 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teach us if we seek Him, even of that which is beyond the material senses. “And he said unto me, It 1s done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that ts athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.’—Rev. 21: 6. All creation is commonly known as being termed both spiritual and natural. Man, when he dies, is said by Scripture to be sown a natural body and raised a spiritual body. “Tt 1s sown a natural body, it ts raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spirsiual body.’—I Cor. 15: 44. Scripture teaches that the natural man cannot know the things of the Spirit, therefore, faith, hope and love, these spiritual things that abide, must come from God, who forms both natural and spiritual things. “ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirt- tually discerned.—I Cor. 2: 14. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”’— Hex. 2: 8. We are not expected, according to Scripture, to know all things now. SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 33 “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor? ... For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.’—Rom. 11: 33, 34, 36. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as alsol am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these ss charity.’—I Cor. 13:12, 13. Therefore Scripture justifies the assertion that any attempt to build a spiritual life upon the soul, spirit or mind of the natural man will be building upon sand and not upon the one foundation Christ Jesus—the Rock. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’—JOHN 14:6, “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gsft of the Holy Ghost.’—Acts 2: 38. “Tt has been said, and truly, that Chris- tianity must be Science, and Science must be Christianity, else one or the other is false and useless.”—S. & H. 135: 21-23, Science is recognised in Scripture, and in doing 34 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE so it is stated that there is a science falsely so-called. “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called; whsch some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.’—I Timortuy 6: 20, 21. Science, in its true sense, is mentioned as learning, occurring as a word only twice, we believe, in Holy Scripture. “Children in whom was no blemish, but well fa- voured, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability «n them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.’—Dan. 1:4. There was nothing made more clear in the Holy Word, so far as the writer is informed, than Chris- tianity and non-Christianity. The one is believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, so being saved ;—the other is not believing, which results in being con- demned. ‘The first, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, is to believe what He says. “Tt ts the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.’—Joun 6:63. “ He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it 1s that loveth me: and he that loveth me, shall SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 35 be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him:’—Joun 14: 21. The second is not to receive and believe what He says. “And tf any man hear my words and belseve not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”’—JouHN 12:47, 48. “ Fle that believeth on him 1s not condemned: but he that believeth not 1s condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.”—Joun 3: 18. Here are given some of the words which Jesus Christ taught and which we are to believe if we are to be one with Him, “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me and I m you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it absde in the vine; no more can ye, except that ye abide in me... . This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.’— Joun 15: 3, 4, 12. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”— Joun 14:27. “ And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 86 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.’’—JouN 17: 5. Here are some of the words of Jesus Christ which serve as a warning and which we are to believe: “ He that believeth and és baptised shall be saved; but he that belseveth not shall be damned.’—Mark 16: 16. “ But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.’—I Cor. 11: 32. “ Knowing that he that $s such is subverted, and sin- neth, being condemned of himself.’—Titus 3:11. | “Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.’—Matr. 25:41. “With his usual impetuosity, Simon re- plied for his brethren, and his reply set forth a great fact: ‘ Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God!’ That is: The Messiah is what thou hast declared,—Christ, the spirit of God, of Truth, Life, and Love, which heals mentally."—S. & H. 137: 16-21. This singular rendering of the words of Jesus by the author of S. & H. is shown to be incorrect by a number of Scripture passages. It was evi- dently so construed by the author, in her attempt to make good her theory, that Jesus was not the Christ, but revealed the Christ. The following Scripture shows the error of the author of S. & H. SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 37 “But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that be- lieving ye msght have life through lis name.’— Joun 20: 31. No language could make more distinct the truth that Jesus is Himself the Christ. _ The Scripture by Matthew is equally plain in its statement of Jesus as the Christ by the birth in the manger. “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found wrth child of the Holy Ghost.’—Marr. 1: 18. Also the Scripture in Mark gives us the simple truth of the deity of Jesus: “And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.’—Mark 8: 29, Luke’s account is also made plain as Scripture always gives its message. Here the disciples, an- swering the question of Jesus, ““Whom say the people that Iam?” replied in the following verse: “They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, Elias; and others say, that one of the old prophets is risen again. He said unto them, But whom say ye that lam? Peter answering sasd, The Christ of God.’—Luxe 9:19, 20, 38 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Then we have Peter’s answer in as direct and un- mistakable worded reply, so that there appears no good excuse for the construction of “The Messiah is what thou hast declared,” as construed by S. & H. “It was now evident to Peter that divine Life, Truth, and Love, and not a human per- sonality, was the healer of the sick and a rock, a firm foundation in the realm of har- mony.”’—S. & H. 38: 6-9. It could not have been evident to Peter that it was not a human personality as well as a personal deity, who was the healer of the sick, for here are Peter’s words in Scripture: “He satd unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.’— UR ee i20: God is the witness that the human personality, upon whom the Spirit in the likeness of a dove rested, was His beloved Son. “And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’— MAR OL? “Not materially but spiritually we know Him as divine Mind, as Life, Truth, and Love.”—S,. & H. 140: 7, 8. A page of quotations can be given in which Jesus SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 39 Christ is mentioned in Scripture as both man and God. We give first the one from John’s Gospel in which God is mentioned as becoming flesh and being with mankind, and witnessed by John the Baptist. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John bare witness of him, and cried, saysng, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me 1s preferred before me; for he was before me.’—JOHN 1:14, 15. Again it is proven by Scripture that although in- heriting a spiritual body Jesus took upon Himself the human body. “ For verily he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Where- fore in all things 1t behooves him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and fasthful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”— Hep, 2: 16-18. “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fash- toned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.’—Puit, 3:21. “ Should we implore a corporeal God to heal the sick out of His personal volition, or 40 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE should we understand the infinite divine Principle which heals? If we rise no higher than blind faith, the Science of healing is not attained.”——S. & H. 167: 1-3. We quote from Scripture two instances through which the theory above advanced by S$. & H. comes to naught. They are, among others, the healing by the faith given the woman having an issue of blood and the giving of sight to the two blind men ac cording to their faith. “For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour. ... And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.’— WATE Oo 2b 22 2829, “Mortal mind and body are one. Neither exists without the other, and both must be destroyed by immortal Mind. Matter or body, is but a false concept of mortal mind.” —S. & H. 177:9, The apostle Paul gives a different method of spiritual attainment, and one that does not agree with the above. ‘That method of S. & H. lacks SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE AY Scriptural authority. The extinction of the nat- ural body, according to Scripture, comes about by death in order that a spiritual body may eventually be given. “For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.’—II Cor. 5:4. We are to keep in respect and with thankfulness this comparatively poor and weak frame and mind that we may, when God wills, be clothed upon with the life which God can give. “Mistaking his origin and nature, man believes himself to be combined matter and Spirit."—S. & H. 171: 17, 18. Scripture quotations which we give confute the above, showing that man is made as asserted by our Saviour with heart, soul, and mind, that the com- plex nature of man includes a spirit of man. “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed ts willing, but the flesh is weak.”— Marr, 16:41. “ The Lord Jesus Christ be with our spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.’—II Tim. 4: 22. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.”—Marr., 22: 37. 42 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE It is true, also, that the spiritual change in man comes from God. “A new heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit well I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.’—EzEKIEL, 36: 26. Such change does not come as stated by the author of S. & H.: “Tn either case you must improve your mental condition till you finally attain the understanding of Christian Science.”—S. & HL Sh. 18: The following quotation from S. & H. gives a very low and entirely false idea of God’s dealing with man: “The demands of God appeal to thought only.”—S. & H. 182:5. Scripture—the truth—is God’s method of dealing with us. “ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, for they are spiritually discerned.” —I Cor, 2: 14, “ Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can- not see the kingdom of God.”—Joun 3:3. SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 483 “Can the agriculturalist, according to be- lief, produce a crop without sowing a seed and awaiting its germination according to the laws of nature? The answer is no, and yet the Scriptures inform us that sin, or error, first caused the condemnation of man to till the ground, and indicate that obedience to God will remove this necessity. Truth never made error necessary, nor devised a law to perpetuate error.”—S. & H, 183:8-15. Here is a presumption on the part of a human mind to judge the why and wherefore of its Cre- ator in relation to His judgments, and in doing so Scripture is misinterpreted by the author of Ge EL. “ Nay but, O man, who are thou that repliest agasnst God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed tt, Why hast thou made me thus? ’”— Rom. 9: 20. “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dte.’— Gen. 2: 16, 17. It is not mentioned what kind of fruit the other trees of the Garden bore, but every tree beside the forbidden tree is mentioned as given Adam for food to gather, and as Adam could eat of every tree except the tree prohibited it is evident that he i 44 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE had access to the tree of life that stood in the midst of the Garden. “ And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress 1t and to keep tt.’— Gen. 2:15. Now Adam’s occupation was at first simply to dress the Garden of Eden, a specially prepared place for his work; prepared by God, who made the lilies of the field to grow and be clothed with glory. But when Adam disobeyed and thus placed himself out of the confidence of his Creator, he was cast out of the Garden and lost even the opportunity of eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. “ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the frust thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her hus- band with her; avd he did eat... . “Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden, Cheru- bims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.’—Gern, 3:5, 6, 23, 24. SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE AS Contrary to the interpretation of the Scriptural account made by the author of S. & H., the con- demnation was not of man, but of the ground for man’s sake, and that which Adam might have cared for with joy, he was now to till in sorrow. “And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast heark- ened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field”’—GeEn, 3:17, 18. “Christian Science destroys material be- liefs through the understanding of Spirit, and thoroughness of this work determines health.”—S. & H. 186: 5-7. Scripture affirms that the natural man cannot attain to the understanding of spirit. We have no record outside of that of our Saviour’s words and life of any man exceeding the spiritual understanding of the apostle Paul, who attributes his understanding to his being a new man in Jesus Christ. Yet to Paul complete health was denied. He still had the thorn in the flesh. “ But the natural man recewveth not the things of the spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are are spiritually discerned. For who hath known the 46 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Chrost.’—I Cor. 2: 14, 16. “ Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, ts God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” — Py Cope ely AZ. “ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.’—Prov. 3: 5. “ And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.” —ITI Cor. 12:7. “The sins of others should not make good men suffer.”—-S. & H, 189: 13. This is contrary to the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. “ All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath lasd on him the iniquity of us all”’—Isatau 53:6. “ Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.’—Gat, 6:2, “The brain can give no idea of God’s man. It can take no cognizance of Mind. Matter is not the organ of infinite Mind.”—S. & H. 191: 1-3. Scripture states that the spirit of man knoweth the things of a man, All men are created by God, SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE Ay therefore belong to God. It is the Spirit of God who brings spiritual things to men. “ For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”’—I Cor. 2:11. “ Spirit is not separate from God. Spirit is God.”—S. & H. 192: 9. All spirit is not the Spirit. We are to try the spirits to see if they be of God. “ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spsrits whether they are of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that con- fesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 1s of God: ... We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that ss not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.’—I Joun 4:1, 2, 6. The spirit of S. & H. which disbelieves that Christ has come in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ is not of God. God is a Spirit, but all spirit is not God. Nowhere in Scripture is it said that “ spirit is God.” The spirit of error is separate from God. “The point for each one to decide is, whether it is mortal mind or immortal Mind A8 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE that is causative. We should forsake the basis of matter for metaphysical Science and its divine Principle.’”—S. & H. 195: 11-14. “Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel that 1t was an error: Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice and destroy the work of thine hands? ”’—Kccu. 530. “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which led thee caused thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths,’—Isatau 3:12. “And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.”’—LuKE PALO, “ And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the imdtignation of his anger and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tem- pest, and hailstones.’—Isatau 30: 30. “Behold my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect m whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon hem: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.’—IsalaAH Aga liZ: “ He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as a heap.’— Psaum 78: 13. “And being brought on thew way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.”—Acts 15: 3. SCIENCE, THEOLOGY, MEDICINE 49 “ Life is God.”—S. & H. 200:.11. Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth and the life ’—The eternal life is with God—Jesus Christ is with God the Father. Ordinary life as it relates to mankind is not God, but a creation of God. It also relates to animals and plants. Such life is not God. There is no authority in Scripture for such a statement, but there is authority in Scripture for the contrary. “T have said to corruption, Thou art my father; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.’— Jos 17: 14. “For length of days, and long life, ard peace, shall they add to thee.’—Prov. 3: 2. “ Therefore, I hated lsfe; because the work that is wrought under the sun 1s grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.’—Eccr, 2:17. “ For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spir- itually minded ts life and peace.’’—Rom. 8: 6. “When Christ, who ts our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.’—Cot,. 3: 4. _“ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of _ Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in hts body, according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad.”—II Cor. 5:10. “ For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;’—JoHN S20. “ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrectton, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live”’—Joun 11:25. IIf FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION— SCIENCE OF BEING N this chapter we give consideration to chap- ters of S. & H., termed therein, Footsteps of Truth, Creation, and Science of Being. “The best sermon ever preached is Truth practised and demonstrated by the destruc- tion of sin, sickness, and death. Knowing this and knowing, too, that one affection would be supreme in us and take the lead in our lives, Jesus said, “No man can serve two masters.’ ””—S. & H, 201: 1-6. Notwithstanding the portion of truth that exists in the above statement by S. & H., it is noticeable that in what many consider the best sermon ever preached (the Sermon on the Mount) the Beati- tudes or blessings of the first chapter which may be considered as the text for the sermon chapters following, do not contain the words sin, sickness, or death, as expressed in the model proposed by ©. & H. in its statement. While these blessings certainly commend right- eousness, yet the mercy and blessing of God is made 50 FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 51 the foundation of joy and happiness rather than such righteousness as men are capable of practicing. Notice that when righteousness is first referred to the blessing is not mentioned as pertaining to those who have righteousness, but rather to those who hunger and thirst after it. No one hungers and thirsts for that he already possesses. Our right- “eousness must exceed that of the scribes and Phari- sees. It must come from God. We must be born again. “We cannot fill vessels already full. They must first be emptied. Let us disrobe error. Then when the winds of God blow, we shall not hug our tatters close about us. “The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love. Christian perfection is won on no other basis.”—S, & H. 201: 13-19. It is contrary to Scripture’s method to state that we must disrobe error. “ For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothedsupon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.’—II Cor. 5:2, 3, 4. It is being clothed that makes us new creatures in Christ Jesus. 52 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “T put on righteousness, and st clothed me: my judg- ment was as a robe and a diadem.’—Jos 29: 14. “T wall greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decketh him- self with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth her- self with her jewels.’—Isatau 61: 10. The victory is in faith in Jesus Christ; it is not in man. “ But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; . . « For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.’—Hep. 10: 12, 14. “ The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life- practice, and God’s will must be universally done.”—S. & H. 202: 3-5. Man of himself cannot do God’s will universally. Our Saviour directed us to pray to our Father in heaven that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God must work in us to do His will. “ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it 1s on heaven.’—Matt. 6:9, 10. “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 53 my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.’—PHIL,. 2: 12, “Our beliefs about a Supreme Being con- tradict the practice growing out of them. Error abounds where Truth should ‘much more abound.’ We admit that God has almighty power, is ‘a very present help in trouble ;’ and yet we rely on a drug or hyp- notism to heal disease, as if senseless matter or erring mortal mind had more power than omnipotent Spirit.’—S. & H. 202: 24-30. There is something far more precious in our beliefs about (or in) a Supreme Being, than the healing of disease. If by faith in God we make use of that which in His mercy He has provided for cures, we not only honour Him for His wise provision, but we use the intelligence which He has given us, in effecting cures in the usual way without always the neces- sity of signs and wonders by which He made known His power to heal, that men might believe that He was the Son of God. If a vein is opened and the blood, which is our life, flows—it is far more in keeping with our faith in God to tie a bandage above the opening and thus stop the flow, than to refuse to work with God and ask Him to stop the flow without our help. If there-is a remedy for disease which has for centuries—or a shorter time—been proven to be effective in the cure of human ailments, we dis- 54 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE honour both it and likewise the Creator, by refus- ing to use it, or to work thus with God for the salvation of our body, as we likewise should work with God in spiritual matters for the salvation of our souls. Does the mother who gives her babe milk to sustain its life, by doing so, show that she relies more on senseless matter or erring, mortal mind than on Omnipotent spirit? When Jesus told His disciples to cast the net on the side of the ship where the fish swam, did He honour any the less, or rely any the less, upon His Father in heaven, than if He had directed the fish to come around to the side where the net was? “And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the shtp, and ye shall find. They cast there- fore, and now they were not able to draw 1t for the multstude of fishes. As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. . . . Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.’—Joun 21:6, 9, 12. When Jesus prepared a dinner for the disciples, did He rely any the less on His Father by doing so? When Jesus fed the multitude, He did not de- spise or neglect the means at hand to work His miracle with, but used it. “And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION | 55 And they said, Seven. ... So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.’—Mark 8: 5, 8. “All forms of error support the false con- clusions that there is more than one Life.”— S. & H. 204: 3-4. There is the natural created life in man, and the life eternal, or eternal life, that is in Jesus Christ and must be given to man by God the Father through the Son if man is to possess it. Man’s life is dependent upon God. Eternal Life is not dependent. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. “Jesus sasth unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’—JOHN 14:6, “For to be carnally minded ¢s death; but to be spir- itually minded is life and peace.’—Rom. 8: 6. “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God,”—CoL, 3: 3. “ That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.”—I PETER 4:2. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. There was a life which Adam did not have a right to, as he found himself outside of the Garden of Eden. (The Tree of Life.) 56 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “So he drove out the man: and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.’—GrEn. 3: 24. “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.’—REv. 22: 14, “God created all through Mind, and made all perfect and eternal. Where, then, is the necessity for recreation or procreation? ”— 8. & H. 205: 12-14. Scripture gives a different account of that which God created from the account given by S. & H. All that pertains to man may be swallowed up by the earth. Nothing is eternal but that which God wills to be eternal. “But tf the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.’—Nvm. 16: 30. God’s life is in Himself. Man’s existence is de- pendent on God. “ All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.’—GEN. 7: 22. Scripture informs us that the Word of God created FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 57 all things, and that this Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and that this Word was God. “Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was wth God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and wtthout him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the ltfe was the light of men. And the light shineth in dark- ness; and the darkness comprehended it not.’— Joun 1:1-5. Scripture does not inform us that mind was the creator. Man is a creature, therefore, has his mind created in him, and is not qualified to understand the mind of God until he does so as a new creature in Christ Jesus. “ For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the Sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. ... And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spsrit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”—Rom. 8: 19, 20, 27. The mind of the natural man is not the mind of God. ‘ “Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift 1s from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom is 58 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first frusts of hts creatures.” —James 1: 16-18. “ Therefore 1f any man be sn Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”—II Cor. 5:17. Will- pPOWEE is capable of all evil.” —S. & H. 206: 10. But will power in man is one exercise of his mind. Therefore, the mind of man and the mind of God are unlike. Thus evil, instead of being unreal, becomes a reality, of which the mind of man is capable. “A material body only expresses a mate- rial and mortal mind. A mortal man pos- sesses this body, and he makes it harmoni- ous or discordant according to the images of thought impressed upon it. . “ Man, being immortal, has a perfect in- destructible life. It is the mortal belief which makes the body discordant and dis- eased in proportion as ignorance, fear, or human will governs mortals.”—S. & H. PAW oleic As these two statements of S. & H. contradict each other, no other comment is called for, than that they are unexplainable. “ Adam, represented in the Scriptures as formed from dust, is an object-lesson for the FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 59 human mind. The material senses, like Adam, originate in matter and return to dust,—are proved non-intelligent. They go out as they came in, for they are still the error, not the truth of being.”—S. & H. 214: 9-14. Scripture states that God created man, not only ‘that He formed man, but also that He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. ‘The material senses of man were created in him, the breath of life of man God breathed into his nostrils. “ So God created man in his own smage, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.’—GEN. 1:27. “ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN, 2:7. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in the darkness ; and the dark- ness comprehended it not.”—Joun 1:4, 5. “Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownest him wth glory and honour: and didst set him over the works of thy hands: ... Wherefore in all things st behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be merciful and a faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliatson for the sins of the people.’—Hes, 2:7, 17. “Entire immunity from the belief in sin, suffering, and death may not be reached at this period, but we may look for an abate- 60 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ment of these evils; and this scientific begin- ning is in the right direction.”—S. & H. 219: 29-32. No statement to the contrary of this assertion of S. & H. could be more direct than the Scripture gives of the work of the Holy Spirit. “ And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness, and of judgment.’— Joun 16:8. “The belief that either fasting or feasting makes men better morally or physically is one of the fruits of ‘the tree of knowledge of good and evil,’ concerning which God said, ‘ Thou shalt not eat of it.”—S. & H. ZL ah Scripture mentions that the tree forbidden to Adam and Eve, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, had made Adam and Eve to know both good and evil, and fasting is commended for a good pur- pose by our Saviour and by Paul. “ And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever ;’—GEN. 3: 22. “And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him. . . . Howbest this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.’”—Martvt. 17: 16, 21. “In stropes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings.’—II Cor. 6:5. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 61 “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward ahungered.’—Matv’. 4: 2. “ Paul said, ‘I was free born.’ “Tf God had instituted material laws to govern man, disobedience to which would have made man ill, Jesus would not have disregarded those laws by healing in direct opposition to them and in defiance of all ma- terial conditions.’—S. & H. 227-28: 19, 30, Jesus overruled the laws of health for a purpose. He tells why. He also recognised the laws of health. “But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.’—Marr. 9: 6. “Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.’—JouN 21:12. “And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way; for divers of them came from far.’-—Mark 8: 3. “Tf God makes sin, if good produces evil, if truth results in error, then Science and Christianity are helpless..—S. & H. Zo Pi Ze 13) However the human opinion may differ, the fol- lowing is Scripture: “TI form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, 62 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— TsatAH 45:7, “ Shall a trumpet be blown in the csty and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?’’—Amos 3:6. “ Scripture informs us that ‘ with God all things are possible, —all good is possible to Spirit; but our prevalent theories practically deny this, and make healing possible only through matter. These theories must be un- true, for the Scripture is true. Christianity is not false, but religions which contradict its Principle are false.”—S, & H. 232: 9-15, “ Judge not the Lord by feeble sense.” Religion, as given in a definition by the “ Ency- clopedia Brittannica,”’ 1s “ Lactantius may be wrong in his etymology, but he has certainly seized the broad, popular sense of the word when he connects it with the obligation by which man is bound to an invisible God.” According to Jesus Christ, there is only one way by which such obligation can meet its fulfillment. “T am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go m and out, and find pas- ture.”’—Joun 10:9, But what must we say of so-called Christian Science upon its own statement just given above upon comparing it with Scripture? FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION — 63 “To ascertain our progress, we must learn where our affections are placed and whom we acknowledge and obey as God. If divine Love is becoming nearer, dearer, and more real to us, matter is then submitting to Spirit. The objects we pursue and the spirit we manifest reveal our standpoint, and show what we are winning.”—S, & H. 239: 16-22. The above is a plain statement which is worthy of every serious consideration, insofar as it relates to our spiritual as well as our material welfare. We, therefore, set forth in a few sentences the well known Gospel of Jesus Christ in His own words and of His Father’s. From a child, Jesus proclaimed Himself as being about His Father’s business. The name of His Father is Love. “And he said unto them, How ts it that you sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business? ”—LUKE 2:49, “And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.’—LUKE 3: 22. “ And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee be- hind me, Satan: for it 1s written, Thou shalt wor- ship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. ... Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick wnth dwers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered 64 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE them not to speak; for they knew that he was Christ.’—LuKE 4:8, 40, 41. John mentions in no uncertain way that the man Christ Jesus was God, the Word made flesh who dwelt among us. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- ten of the Father) full of grace and truth.’— Joun 1:1, 14. Surely Jesus Christ could speak as follows: “ For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.’—Joun 16: 27, 28. “ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him... . Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”—Joun 14:6, 7, 9, “To hold yourself superior to sin, because God made you superior to it and governs man, is true wisdom.”’—S. & H. 231: 20. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 65 “ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son 1s mine: the soul that sinneth, ¢¢ shall die.”—EzexK1rEy 18: 4. We learn from Scripture that through Jesus Christ we are delivered, and not by “ holding our- selves superior to sin.” “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him; and he cannot stn, be- cause he is born of God.’—I JouHN 3:9. “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall be appear the second time without sin unto salvation.’—HEs. 9728. “And now my Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions ; make me not the reproach of the foolish.’—PsauM 39:7, 8. “Let us accept Science, relinquish all the- ories based on sense-testimony, give up im- perfect models and illusive ideals; and so let us have one God, one Mind, and that one perfect, producing His own models of excellence. “ Let the ‘male and female’ of God’s cre- ating appear. Let us feel the divine energy of Spirit, bringing us into newness of life and recognising no mortal nor material power as able to destroy. Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine ‘ powers that be.’ Such is the true Science of being. Any other theory of Life, or God, is delusive and mythological. 66 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “Mind is not the author of matter, and the creator of ideas is not the creator of il- lusions. Either there is no omnipotence, or omnipotence is the only power.”—S. & H. 249: 1-14. To some who may be working out their own salvation with fear and trembling, according to the apostle Paul, knowing that the Lord worketh in them both to will and to do, the above theory of S. & H. may be a temptation to turn from their hope, which is an anchor sure and steadfast, and accept a theory which has no foundation in Scripture. The person is asked to accept a theory that his or her mind is identical with the mind of God, and that by so believing there is only one mind, and that mind is God, thus making naught of the following Scripture : “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, cructfied among you? ... And the Scripture, foreseeimng that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.”—Gat,. 3:1, 8. Is the Christian giving up an imperfect model when he gives up the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, whom he once received—Three in One—and is he accept- ing a perfect model in the varied forms in which his own personality is made to take the place of FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 67 the meek and lowly Jesus whom he once listened to and obeyed, and who said: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.’-—Martr, 11:28, 29, 30. Is omnipotence the only power God has per- mitted? Listen to the answer from the Scripture, which is contrary to the teachings of S. & H. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, agaist the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Where- fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.’—Epu. 6: 10-13. “The false evidence of material sense contrasts strikingly with the testimony of Spirit. Material sense lifts its voice with the arrogance of reality and says: “T am wholly dishonest, and no man knoweth it. I can cheat, lie, commit adul- tery, rob, murder, and I elude detection by smooth-tongued villainy. Animal in pro- pensity, deceitful in sentiment, fraudulent in 68 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE purpose, I mean to make my short span of life one gala day. What a nice thing is sin! How sin succeeds, where the good purpose waits! The world is my kingdom. I am enthroned in the gorgeousness of matter. But a touch, an accident, the law of God, may at any moment annihilate my peace, for all my fancied joys are fatal. Like bursting lava, I expand but to my own despair, and shine with the resplendency of consuming fire. “Spirit bearing opposite testimony saith: “T am Spirit. Man, whose senses are spiritual, is my likeness. He reflects the in- finite understanding, for I am Infinity. The beauty of holiness, the perfection of being, imperishable glory,—all are Mine, for | am God. I give immortality to man, for I am Truth. I include and impart all bliss, for I am Love. I give life, without beginning and without end, for I am Life. I am supreme and give all, for [am Mind. I am the sub- stance of all, because 1 AM THAT I AM.” —S. & H. 252-3: 15-8. The above is a further proposal to take away the need of the atonement made by Jesus Christ by substituting an unnatural exaltation of the nature of man as created in Adam. Its attempted sub- version of Scripture is best shown by presenting Scripture itself. Let us begin with the Gospel of Jesus Christ: “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 69 and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.’—GEnN. ed Boe “Vet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make is soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall pro- long us days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand,’—Isataw 53: 10. -“ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted ts, God with us.’—Martv. si “ He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilder- ness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.’—Joun 1:23. “The Spirst of the Lord ts upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.” —LuKE 4:18. “Tt is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.’—Joun 6: 63. Let us look at the need of the Saviour as given in Scripture: “ For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man 1s the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15: 47. “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.”—Eccu. 7:20. 70 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “ Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. “ He cometh forth like a flower, and ts cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”— Jos 14:1, 2. What the atonement made by Jesus Christ has accomplished for those who believe in Jesus Christ : “And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.’—Nwum. 21:9. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder- ness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever belseveth in him should not pertsh, but have ever- lasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.’—Joun 3: 14-17. “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall gwe him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life... . The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.’—Joun 4: 14, 25, 26. “And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of lsfe: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst... . All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 71 ...No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. It 1s written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man ‘therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.’—JoHN 6:35, 37, 44, 45. * According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.’—-Epu. 1: 4. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.’— Rom. 5:1. “That God is corporeal or material, no man should affirm.”—S, & H. 255: 14. In describing Jesus Christ, Scripture is so ex- plicit, so plain, that no mistake can possibly be made in the reference to the person of God, who is mentioned as a Person, after the brightness of His glory is mentioned. “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the ex- press image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. “The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Triunity) sug- gests polytheism, rather than the one ever- presentyl AM i Plearmi@)israele the: Lord our God is one Lord.’ “The everlasting I AM is not bounded 72 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE nor compressed within the narrow limits of physical humanity, nor can He be under- stood aright through mortal concepts. The precise form of God must be of small impor- tance in comparison with the sublime ques- tion, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?” S. & H. 256: 9-18, Scripture mentions three persons as one in the Deity—the Father, the Only Begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost. “ After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.’— Mario 79, “Tn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only be- gotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— Joun 1:1, 14. “ Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’—Mart, eae “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.’—II Peter 1:21. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.’—I Joun 5:7. “ Science reveals the possibility of achiev- ing all good, and sets mortals at work to dis- cover what God has already done; but FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 73 distrust of one’s ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one’s wings and ensures failure at the outset.”’— Oeicene 2O0 2 13418: Goodness is shown by the Lord to men: .“ He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”—MicaHu 6:8. “Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? ..- Who will render to every man according to his deeds: ... But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good; to the Jew first, and also to the Genttile.’—Rom. 2: 4, 6, 10. “And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that ts, God: but sf thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.’— MATOS D/. “T have seen an end of all perfection: but thy com- mandment is exceeding broad.’—Psaum 119: 96. Men are cautioned in Scripture not to be weary in well doing. “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’—GAL,. 6:9. “Consecration to good does not lessen man’s dependence on God, but heightens it. Neither does consecration diminish man’s 74 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE obligations to God, but shows the paramount necessity of meeting them. Christian Science takes naught from the perfection of God, but it ascribes to Him the entire glory. By put- ting ‘ off the old man with his deeds,’ mortals ‘put on immortality.’ ”—S. & H. 262: 1-8. Man’s great obligation to God was that which made the atonement of Jesus Christ necessary. He can- celled the debt, and all who believe in Him may have redemption from the Redeemer—may even have the Redeemer—who told us to pray, “ Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.” S. & H. in quoting, partially, Paul’s sentence in Colossians 3:9, evidently did not comprehend its meaning. ‘The quotation, as S. & H. puts it above, would make it appear that Paul taught to have mor- tals “put off the old man” themselves. Such a teaching was never given by Paul or any other of the apostles. Paul, in the beginning of the chapter, writes: “Tf ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.’—Cot, 3:1. And in the part quoted from by S. & H. does not say “ put off the old man,” but does say, following up that which he says is accomplished in Christ, “Seeing ye have put off the old man with his tleeds Colas 1,9, FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 75 Paul’s teaching does not lead one to feel that we can bring the new man by our exertions in putting off the old man. Here is what he teaches in an- other place: “For we that are in thts tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we should be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life... . Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; be- hold, all things are become new.’—II Cor. 5:4, 17. “ Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour.’—Titus 3:5, 6. “Tt is generally conceded that God is Father, eternal, self-created, infinite. If this is so, the forever Father must have had chil- dren prior to Adam. The great I AM made all ‘that was made.’ Hence man and the spiritual universe coexist with God.”—S. & H, 267: 8-12. God is indeed Father. His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, is with Him and was with Him in the beginning. Adam was created, therefore Adam was not co-existent with the Father—Adam came after. There were five days of creation, including the heavens and the earth, before Adam was created. 76 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. . . . And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. . . . And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the catile, and over every creep- ing thing that creepeth upon the earth.’—GEN. Lie ea Naa, “ But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept m store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of un- godly men. But, beloved, be not tgnorant of this one thing, that one day 1s with the Lord as a thou- sand years, and a thousand years as one day.’— LE Berens 3 si Aas. “From first to last the supposed co- existence of Mind and matter and the min- gling of good and evil have resulted from the philosophy of the serpent. Jesus’ demon- strations sift the chaff from the wheat, and unfold the unity and the reality of good, the unreality, the nothingness, of evil."—S. & H. 269: 3-8. God would not have mentioned the tree of the knowledge of good and evil had not both existed in reality, nor would “nothingness” be capable of Sitting.” “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of st: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.’—GEnN. 2: 17. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 77 Mind is a part of man, so defined by Jesus Christ. Mind of man is co-existent with his other parts of being. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.’—Marr, 22: 37, “Tn Latin the word rendered disciple sig- nifies student; and the word indicates that the power of healing was not a supernatural gift to those learners.”—S. & H, 271: 11-13. Contrary to the statement given above, Scripture states that the power of healing was given “ by the spirit to some.” “To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit.”—I Cor. 12:9, “As God Himself is good and is Spirit, goodness and spirituality must be immortal. These opposites, evil and matter, are mortal error, and error has no creator.”—S. & H. 277: 7-10. “ Spirit and matter can neither coexist nor co-operate, and one can no more create the other than Truth can create error, or vice versa.’—S, & H. 279: 13-15. It is not consistent with reason to assume that anything mortal did not at some time in its earthly existence have a creation. Evil had a creator. 78 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Scripture has a wonderful future for mortal bodies. God dwells with men. “But tf the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.’—Rom. 8:11. “T form the light and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— Isatau 45:7, “Ts God’s image or likeness matter, or a mortal, sin, sickness, and death? Can mat- ter recognise Mind? Can infinite Mind recognise matter? ”’—S, & H. 284: 11-13. Created man was not the same as the man Jesus Christ, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost. Scripture recites the recognising of matter by God, the infinite. “ And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.’— GEN-21 21, 22. . “But the natural man receweth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirit- ually discerned.’—I Cor. 2: 14. It is mentioned of Jesus Christ that He is the ex- press image of the person of God. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 79 “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the ex- press wmage of his person, and upholding all things by the word of hts power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. “Ts God a physical personality? Spirit is not physical. The belief that a material body is man is a false conception of man,”—S, & F209 tho. Yes, God is a physical personality in Jesus Christ, as we have shown from Scripture. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— Joun 1:14, The material body is a part of man. It would be difficult to find any person who would claim that the material body was all of man. “* Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?’ God being everywhere and all-inclusive, how can He be absent or suggest the absence of omni- presence and omnipotence? How can there be more than all?’’—S. & H. 287: 12-16. “TI am the Lord, and there is none else, there ts no God besides me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me; that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there ts none be- 80 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE sides me, I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— IsarAu 45: 5, 6, 7. Omnipotence is conclusive—the creator of all. Scripture mentions error as an evil, and that it is seen. “ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler.’— Recon LOD. “Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit,—of Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be eternal, self- existent.”—S. & H. 289: 31-32. This statement is contrary to the Scripture in John. “ Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex- cept a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that whitch is born of the spirit 1s spirit. Marvel not that I sasd unto thee, Ye must be born again.’—Joun 3:5, 6, 7. “They who are unrighteous shall be un- righteous still, until in divine Science Christ, Truth, removes all ignorance and sin.”— Sade 20-22, If the quotation is intended to be from Revelation, chapter 22, it is not given correctly. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 81 “ He that is unjust, let him be unjust stil: and he which ts filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that ts righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that 1s holy, let him be holy still.’—Rey. 22:11. This verse follows one that directs that “the say- ings of the prophecy be not sealed.” There is then given the statement regarding ’ those who are “ unjust’ and “ filthy,” also of those who are “righteous” and “holy.” It is evident from the Scripture that there is a continuing of these attributes in each case, and no Scripture authority there for the statement “ until Christian Science, Truth, removes all ignorance and sin.” “ Universal salvation rests on progression and probation, and is unattainable without them. Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifesta- tions of Mind are harmonious and immortal, because sin is not there and man is found having no righteousness of his own, but in possession of ‘the mind of the Lord,’ as the Scripture says.”’—S. & H. 291: 12-18. Heaven is a place, and God is there, according to Scripture. “Tet not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many manstons: tf it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.’—Joun 14:1, 2. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ 82 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought tt not robbery to be equal with God.”—Puit, 2:5, 6. “Tf ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.’—Cor, 3:1. “No final judgment awaits mortals, for the judgment-day of wisdom comes hourly and continually, even the judgment by which mortal man is divested of all material error. As for spiritual error there is none.”—S. & H. 291 : 28-32. There will be a judgment of all men, but, according to Scripture, no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. “Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city.’—Marr. 10:15. “But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.’—Marvt. 12: 36, “And as it 1s appointed unto men once to die, but after thts the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation:’—He_p. 9:27, 28. “But, after thy hardness and impenstent heart, trea- surest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.’—Rom. 2:5. “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit;’—Rom. 8:1. FOOTSTEPS OF TROUTH—CREATION 83 “ And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” —ReEv. 22: 12. “Explaining the origin of material man and mortal mind, Jesus said: ‘Why do ye not understand my speech? Ejven because ye cannot hear my word. Ye are of your father, the devil (evil), and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, be- cause there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.’’”—S. & H. 292 : 19-26. Neither Jesus nor John would have called “evil ”’ 66 he.”’ “Ve are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a le, he speaketh of his own: for he ts a liar, and the father of wt.’—Joun 8: 44, Jesus saw Satan fall from heaven. “ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.’—LwxeE 10: 18. Material man and mortal mind were created by God. 84 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “And God said, Let us make man in our smage, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” —GEN. 1: 26, There is a second man—Christ Jesus. “ The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.”—I Cor. 15:47, God honoured the first man created by giving him the privilege of being joined to the second man, Christ Jesus, by being born again. “ Among whom also we all had our conversation times, past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who 1s rich in mercy, for hts great love where- with he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved); . .. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of command- ments contained in ordinances; for to make m himself of twain one new man, so making peace.” -HpH. 2: 3-5, 14, 15. “ Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he can- not see the kingdom of God.’—JouN 3:3. “The belief that pain and pleasure, life FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 85 and death, holiness and unholiness, mingle in man,—that mortal, material man is the like- ness of God and is himself a creator,—is a fatal error. “God, without the image and likeness of Himself, would be a nonenity, or Mind un- expressed. He would be without a witness or proof of His own nature. Spiritual man is the image or idea of God.”—S. & H. 303 : 21-27. When God said, ‘‘ Let us make man in our image after our likeness,’ He created man. The whole man was in His image and after His likeness. “ And God said, Let us make man wm our wmage, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the ar, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own wmage, sn the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” —GEN. 1:26, 27, Pain, pleasure, life, death, holiness, all mingled in Jesus Christ the Son of God,—the Son of man. Man was made in the image of God. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was én the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. ... Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will 86 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’-—Joun 1:1-3, 13, 14. “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was én all points tempted lke as we are, yet without sin.” —Hes. 4:15. The lilies of the field without the lines of beauty painted by their Creator, would not have exceeded all the glorious array of Solomon. A rose without a rich gift of perfume with which it is endowed by its Maker, does not appeal to our senses as it does with it. To bring to our minds the being of our Saviour, as the Holy Spirit gives us in Scripture, we must not break the word by separating His person, “‘ God is One.” “As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him... . And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory whtch I had with thee before the world was.’—JOHuN 17:2, 5. “T am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the val- leys.’—SONG OF SOLOMON 2:1, “Jacob was alone, wrestling with error,— struggling with a mortal sense of life, sub- stance, and intelligence as existent in matter with its false pleasures and pains,—when an angel, a message from Truth and Love, ap- peared to him and smote the sinew, or FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 87 strength, of his error, till he saw its un- reality; and Truth, being thereby under- stood, gave him spiritual strength in this Peniel of divine Science. ‘Then said the spiritual evangel: ‘Let me go, for the day breaketh;’ that is, the Light of Truth and Love dawns upon thee. But the patriarch, perceiving his error and his need of help, did not loosen his hold upon this glorious light until his nature was transformed. When Jacob was asked, ‘What is thy name?’ he straightway answered; and then his name was changed to Israel, for ‘as a prince’ had he prevailed and had ‘ power with God and with men.’ Then Jacob ques- tioned his deliverer, ‘Tell me, I pray thee, thy name;’ but this appellation was withheld, for the messenger was not a corporeal being, but a nameless, incorporeal impartation of divine Love to man, which, to use the word of the Psalmist, restored his Soul,—gave him the spiritual sense of being and rebuked his material sense.”—S. & H. 308-9: 16-6. It was not a messenger who came to Jacob, but the Lord Himself, a man,—the visible form of Christ before His incarnation. It was not with error Jacob wrestled, but with God, with whom he had power, and with men. “ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day... . And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with 88 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Pemel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life ts pre- served.’—GEN. 32:24, 28, 29, 30. “The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. He took his brother by the hecl in the womb, and by lus strength he had power with God: Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept and made suppls- cation unto him: he found him in Beth-el and there he spake with us; Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.”—Hoska 12: 2-5, ‘ Soul changeth not. We are commonly taught that there is a human soul which sins and is spiritually lost,—that soul may be lost, and yet be immortal. If Soul could sin, Spirit, Soul, would be flesh instead of Spirit. It is the belief of the flesh and material sense which sins. If Soul sinned, Soul would die. Sin is the element of self-destruction, and spiritual death is oblivion. If there was sin in Soul, the annihilation of Spirit would be inevitable. The only Life is Spirit, and if Spirit should lose Life as God, good, then Spirit, which has no other existence, would be annihilated.”—-S, & H. 310: 18-28. Here is Scripture refuting such a theory. “The word of the Lord came unto me again, say- FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION — 89 ing, ... Behold, All souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son ts mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die?’—EzeK1E1, 18:1, 4. “ Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God: arise therefore, and build ye the sanctu- ary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the cove- nant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that 1s to be built to the name of the Lord.’—I Curon, 22:19. “Your soul” is here mentioned as needing a change “ to be set” to seek the Lord. “And it shall come to pass, tf ye shall hearken dili- gently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”—Deuvt. 11:13. This is what souls in Israel were directed to do. “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting cove- nant with you, even the sure mercies of David,’— ISAIAH 55: 3. Here Isaiah points the way a soul may live. Soul is changeable. God is unchangeable in His pur- poses of the covenant. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. 90 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “Man became a living soul”; not God nor Spirit, but man—God’s creation. “Wearing in part a human form (that is, as it seemed to mortal view), being conceived by a human mother, Jesus was the mediator between Spirit and the flesh, between Truth and Error.”—S. & H. 315 : 29-32. Jesus was not conceived by a human mother ac- cording to Scripture, but by the Holy Ghost, one of the Godhead. “But while he thought on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is con- ceived in her 1s of the Holy Ghost. . . . Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us”’—Matr. Pea 3, Thus being one of the Godhead, Jesus became a mediator because He was both man, born of Mary, and the only begotten Son of God, conceived by the Holy Ghost. “Man’s wisdom finds no satisfaction in sin, since God has sentenced sin to suffer. The necromancy of yesterday foreshadowed the mesmerism and hypnotism of today.”— S. & H. 322: 14-17. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 91 If, according to S. & H., sin is unreal, how can sin suffer ? “The true idea of God gives the true un- derstanding of Life and Love, robs the grave of victory, takes away all sin and the delu- sion that there are other minds, and destroys mortality.”"—S. & H. 323 :24-27. Belief in God is more than a true idea. It is being born again; receiving the Holy Ghost, whereby we call God, Father. “ All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke ts easy, and my burden ts light?’—Mart. 11: 27-30. “ But as many as recewwed him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that be- lieve on his name.’—JOuN 1: 12, “A little leaven leavens the whole lump. A little understanding of Christian Science proves the truth of all that I say of it. Be- cause you cannot walk on the water and raise the dead, you have no right to question the great might of divine Science in these directions, Be thankful that Jesus, who was 92 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE the true demonstrator of Science, did these things, and left His example for us. In Science we can use only what we under- stand. We must prove our faith by demonstration. “One should not tarry in the storm if the body is freezing, nor should he remain in the devouring flames. Until one is able to pre- vent bad results, he should avoid their occa- sion. ‘To be discouraged, is to resemble a pupil in addition, who attempts to solve a problem of Euclid, and denies the rule of the problem because he fails in his first effort.”—S. & H. 329: 5-20. But when did Divine Science, so-called, ever walk on the water, or raise the dead? ’Tis true, Jesus Christ did, but Scripture shows the Gospel of Jesus Christ to be entirely at variance with so- called “ Divine Science”; and, then, we are in- structed in Scripture not to lean to our own understanding. “ Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”—Prov. 3:5. To perform miracles is the gift of God, and is not a problem solved by man’s understanding, but is the work of the Holy Spirit. “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis- dom, to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to an- FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 93 other the gifts of healing by the same S‘pirit; to another the working of miracles; to another proph- ecy; to another discerning of spwrits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpreta- tion of tongues: but all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.’—I Cor. 12: 8-11. “When the following platform is under- stood and the letter and the spirit bear wit- ness, the infallibility of divine metaphysics will be demonstrated.” “God is infinite, the only Life, substance, Spirit, or Soul, the only intelligence of the universe, including man. Eye hath neither seen God nor His image and _ likeness. Neither God nor the perfect man can be dis- cerned by the material senses. The individ- uality of Spirit, or the infinite, is unknown, and thus a knowledge of it is left either to human conjecture or to the revelation of divine Science.”—S. & H. 330: 1. Man has seen God’s likeness. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’—Joun 1: 14. . . . Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, 94 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on hsgh.’—Hes. 1: 2, 3. Is it true that there is only one Spirit? Scripture contradicts the theory. “Tf ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?”—Lox¥ 11: 13. “ Tet the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation.’—Nuvm., 27: 16. There is the life of the first man, Adam. There is also the eternal life given by the second man, Jesus Christ. There is, therefore, the life created by God and the eternal life which is by faith in Jesus Christ,—the being born again. “ And so it 1s written, the first man Adam, was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirtt. Howbeit that was not first which ts spi- tual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual,’—I Cor. 15:45, 46. Is God the only Soul? “When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.’—Exopus BOLE: | FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 95 Scripture that tells who God is. “ The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.’—Deuvt. 33:27. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— Joun 1:1, 14. “God is a Spirst: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.’—Joun 4: 24. “ For st became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctéfied, are all of one: for which cause he 1s not ashamed to call them breth- en.’ —Hes. 2:10, 11. “God is what the Scriptures declare Him to be,-—Life, Truth, Love. Spirit is divine Principle, and divine Principle is Love, and Love is Mind, and Mind is not both good and bad, for God is Mind; therefore, there is in reality one Mind only, because there is one God.”—S, & H. 330: II Scripture is very plain in every description given of God, yet we fail to find “ Mind ” as one of His names. Is it true that there is only one mind? Is God 96 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE mentioned anywhere in Scripture as principle or soul? God is a spirit. The spirit man has a mind, a soul, but God is the Creator of all man’s parts, none of which could be God. Man could not be his own creator. Cruden defines mind as the judg- ment whereby we distinguish between good and evil. The mind of God is past finding out. “For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may mstruct him? But we have the mnd of Christ.’—I Cor. 2: 16. There is, then, according to Scripture, both the mind of the Father and the mind of the Son, Christ Jesus, who reveals the Father with the holy spirit. Paul acknowledged a mind that is man’s, as well as a mind that is God’s. “ For I delight in the law of God after the inward man.’—Rom, 7: 22. * Now as James and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.’—II Tim. 3:8. “The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power. As manifesting by mankind it stands for a lie, nothing claiming to be something,—for lust, dishonesty, self- ishness, envy, hypocrisy, slander, hate, theft, adultery, murder, dementia, insanity, inan- FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 97 ity, devil, hell, with all the etceteras that word includes.”—S. & H. 330: III. Ask the mother, who has watched her loved son or daughter fall into these snares of Satan in oppo- sition to her teachings, if those evils enumerated are nothing? Scripture makes them real. Do not our sound minds and sense instruct that ~ “nothing” is beyond being annihilated? Evil may be overcome with good. That truth makes of evil something to be overcome. “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.’—Rom. 12:21. “God is divine Life, and Life is no more confined to the forms which reflect it than substance is in its shadow. If life were in mortal man or material things, it would be subject to their limitations and would end in death. Life is Mind, the creator reflected in His creations. If He dwelt within what He creates, God would not be reflected but absorbed, and the Science of being would be forever lost through a mortal sense, which falsely testifies to a beginning and an end.” —S. & H. 330: 1V. Instead of death being produced by God dwelling in His created being, man, Scripture records di- rectly to the contrary. “ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? ”—I Cor. 3: 16. 98 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE By the indwelling of God we become His own and belong to Him, Who is eternal life. “ Brethren, let every man, wherein he ss called, therein abide with God.’—I Cor. 7: 24. “T pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine; and all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.”’—JouN 17:9, 10. “ The Scriptures imply that God is All-in- all. From this it follows that nothing pos- sesses reality nor existence except the divine Mind and His ideas. The Scriptures also declare that God is Spirit. Therefore in epirit all is harmony, and there can be no discord; all is Life, and there is no death. Everything in God’s universe expresses Him eS Hess gies But man is a very important figure, according to Scripture. “Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.’— IsataAH 32:1, 2. God rules over man and He saves men. “For the Lord ts our judge, the Lord is our law- giver, the Lord 1s our King; he will save us.’— IsatAH 33: 22. FOOTSTEPS OF TROTH—CREATION 99 The Lord speaks in Scripture and shows not that he is Mind, but that he has a mind. He calls it my mind. God is a person. “Then said the Lord unto me, though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward thts people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.’—Jer. 15:1. Scripture does not instruct us to love mind, or soul, as the first and greatest command. It presents the Person of the Lord our God as the One to whom we are to give our supreme love. “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great com- mandment. And the second 1s like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself?’—Mar. Vie GS Sep All is not harmony. Nowhere in Scripture is such a statement found. All things work together for good to those who love God. But there is much that is far from harmony in the experience of God’s devoted followers. “ Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a 100 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE man’s foes shall be they of hss own household.”— Marr. 10: 34-36. In Christ Jesus, who is the express image of God’s person, there is no evil. “Who being the brightness of Mis glory, and the express wmage of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.’—HeEs. 1: 3. “God is individual, incorporeal. He is divine Principle, Love, the universal cause, the only creator, and there is no other self- existence. He is all-inclusive, and is re- flected by all that is real and eternal and by nothing else. He fills all space, and it 1s im- possible to conceive of such ommnipresence and individuality except as infinite Spirit or Mind. Hence all is Spirit and spiritual.’”’— PI gs Lice Via God is one in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Ghost. “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, Ali power 1s given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.’-—Mart, 28: 18, 19. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear wit- FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 101 ness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree m one.’—I Joun Se tee God is not incorporeal. He may come to earth in any form He selects. He came as a man, Jesus Christ, and He also came as the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. “And the Holy Ghost descended m a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.’—Lwuks 3: 22, “Life, Truth, and Love constitute the tri- une Person called God,—that is, the triply divine Principle, Love. They represent a trinity in unity, three in one,—the same in essence, though multiform in office: God the Father-Mother ; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science or the Holy Com- forter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature of the infinite. They also indicate the divine Prin- ciple of scientific being, the intelligent. rela- tion of God to man and the universe.”— eC OA Sa Here is a wrong interpretation of Scripture. ‘The Three-in-One is plainly stated in John’s first Letter. “ For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one.’—I JOHN 5:7. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us 102 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”— Joun 1:14. “ Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation. As the apostle ex- pressed it in words which he quoted with approbation from a classic poet : ‘ For we are also His offspring.’ ”’—S. & H. 332: VIII. Nowhere in Scripture is the Deity called “ Father-Mother.” ‘Our Father. who art in heaven’ is a name of Deity. Jesus Christ, the - only begotten Son of God, the express image of His Father’s Person, is the one spiritual relation to creation—John 1: 3. “ Howbeit that was not first which ts spsritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which ts spiritual. The first man ts of the earth, earthy, the second man is the Lord from heaven.’—I1 Cor. 15: 46, 47. “Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. ‘lhe Christ is incorporeal, spiritual, yea, the divine image and likeness, dispelling the illusions of the senses; the Way, the Truth, and the Life, healing the sick and casting out devils, destroying sin, disease, and death. As Paul says: ‘ There is one God, and one mediator between God FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 103 and men, the man Jesus Christ.’ The cor- poreal man Jesus was human.’—S. & H. . aA Jesus Christ, born of Mary by the Holy Ghost, was very God and very man; thus He is the medi- ator between God and man. “ Now a mediator is not a medsator of one, but God is one.’ —Gat, 3:20, To be an all-effective mediator, neither Jesus, the man alone, nor God, without man, is the mediator, but the God-Man is the mediator. ‘The Word made flesh—Christ Jesus our high priest. “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.’—I Timotuy 2:5, 6. “ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which. was established upon better prom- ises.’—Hes. 8: 6. There was a child born of Mary. He was the Son given of God. “ For unto us a child is born, unto us a son és given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” —IsalauH 9: 6. 104 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “ And, behold, thou shalt concewe m thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.’”—LuKE 1: 31, 32. Thus the body that lay in the tomb of Joseph until the third day when He arose, was the body of the mediator between God and man. “When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It 1s finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. ... But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs.’—Joun 19: 30, 33. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath ever- lasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but ts passed from death unto life. Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming and now 4s, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall lve,’—Joun Site: AG “And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them m white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which ts taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”—Acts 1:10, 11. “Jesus demonstrated Christ; He proved that Christ is the divine idea of God—the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 105 divine Principle, Love, and leading into all truth.”—S. & H. 332: X. Jesus is Christ, according to Scripture. “ He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus an- swered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed tt unto thee, but my Father which ts in heaven.”— Marr, 16: 15-17, “ Jesus was the son of a virgin. He was appointed to speak God’s word and to appear to mortals in such a form of humanity as they could understand as well as perceive. Mary’s conception of Him was spiritual, for only purity could reflect Truth and Love, which were plainly incarnate in the good and pure Christ Jesus. He expressed the highest type of divinity, which a fleshly form could express in that age. Into the real and ideal man the fleshly element cannot enter. Thus it is that Christ illustrates the coincidence or spiritual agreement, between God and man in His image.”—S. & H. 332: XI. Jesus was, according to Scripture, the Son of God. He was born of Mary by the Holy Ghost. “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore 106 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.”—Luxe 1: 35. “The word Christ is not properly a, syno- nym for Jesus, though it is commonly so - used. Jesus was a human name, which be- longed to Him in common with other He- brew boys and men, for it is identical with the name of Joshua, the renowned Hebrew leader. On the other hand, Christ is not a name so much as the divine title of Jesus. Christ expresses God’s spiritual, eternal nature. The name is synonymous with Mes- siah, and alludes to the spirituality which is taught, illustrated, and demonstrated in the life of which Christ Jesus was the embodi- ment. The proper name of our Master in the Greek was Jesus the Christ; but Christ Jesus better signifies the Godlike.’—S. & TOS aew LL, The name “ Christ’? means the anointed of God, and is one with the Hebrew word “ Messiah,” ac- cording to Scripture, translated by Cruden. “ Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee wsth the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”—PsauM 45:7. “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken- hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.”— Isatau 61:1, FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 107 The name is also as truly suitable for the Son of God as “ Our Father in heaven” is for God; bear- ing the form “ made flesh,” the Almighty, the Cre- ator of man. Jesus Christ was Emmanuel, “ God with us.” “And be found in him, not having mine own right- eousness, which ts of the law, but that which ts through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which 1s of God by faith,’—Puit, 3:9. “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God: and that be- lieving ye might have life through his name.’— Joun 20: 31. “The advent of Jesus of Nazareth marked the first century of the Christian era, but the Christ is without beginning of years or end of days. Throughout all generations, both before and after the Christian era, the Christ, as the spiritual idea,—the reflection of God,—has come with some measure of power and grace to all prepared to receive Christ, Truth. Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and the prophets caught glorious glimpses of the Messiah, or Christ, which baptised these seers in the divine nature, the essence of © Love. The divine image, idea, or Christ was, is, and ever will be inseparable from the divine Principle, God. Jesus referred to this unity of His spiritual identity thus: ‘Before Abraham was, I am’; ‘I and my Father are one’; ‘ My Father is greater than I. The one Spirit includes all identities.”— sebutsag mwhcae aya ia @ FBI 108 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE This attempt to show the person of Jesus and that of Christ as separate is a direct contradiction of Scripture as shown in the review just given of XII of the S. & H. platform, and will show further in this review of XIII of the platform by the Word of God. “ And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his peple from thew sins. . . . Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call hts name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.’-—Marr. 1:21, 23. Could anyone but God save from sin, to whom salvation belongs? “Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only 1s my rock and my salva- tion; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved.’—PsaumM 62:1, 2. Jesus was the Christ. “Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he .was Jesus the Christ.’—Marr. 10320: The testimony of the Father is here given of the Son of God, who was also the Son of man. “And whoso shall recewe one such little child in my name receweth me... . Wherefore if thy hand or FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 109 thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it 1s better for thee to enter tnto life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck st out, and cast 1t from thee: it 1s better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast tnto hell fire.’-—Martr. 18:5, 8, 9. _ “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son ts given: and the government shall be upon lus shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.’—IsaIAu 9: 6, “For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to ob- tain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.’—I Tuess. 5:9, 10. Jesus Christ was the beginning of all creation, the Alpha and Omega; the Almighty. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signi- fied it by his angel unto is servant John: ...1 am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end- ing, sasth the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.’—Rev. 1:1, 8. Jesus did not come with a “measure of power.” The Father gave to Him without measure. “ He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: 110 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE he that cometh from heaven ts above all. . . . For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God gweth not the spirit by measure unto him. The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that belteveth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.’—Joun 3:31, 34-35. “ By these sayings Jesus meant, not that the human Jesus was or is eternal, but that the divine idea or Christ was and is so, and therefore antedated Abraham; not that the corporeal Jesus was one with the Father, but that the spiritual idea, Christ, dwells forever in the bosom of the Father, God, from which it illumines heaven and earth; not that the Father was greater than Spirit, which is God, but greater, infinitely greater, than the fleshly Jesus, whose earthly career was brief.”—S. & H. 334: XIV. According to Scripture, severa? vital mistakes are found in the above attempt to interpret the sayings of Jesus. The human Jesus is eternal. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begot- ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth,’— JOHN 1:1, 14. The following explanation of “ Word”’ is given FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 111 by Cruden: “In Hebrew ‘Dubar,’ in Greek ‘Rhema,’ or ‘ Logos,’ it signifies first the eternal son of God, the uncreated wisdom, the second per- son of the most Holy Trinity; equal and consub- stantial with the Father.’ The Scripture from John corroborates the definition given by Cruden. In Hebrews, Paul quotes several prophecies from _ the Old Testament in which the Son of God, Jesus, to whom Mary gave birth and who was named by the angel, the Son of God, is shown to be the only begotten Son of the Father, the Anointed. The name given to the Son of God, who was born of Mary, is “ Jesus Christ.” “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost... . And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,’— WATT AL WIS 2b 22. “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, ts forever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness ts the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved right- eousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of glad- ness above thy fellows. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundatson of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. They perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old as doth a garment.”—Hes, 1: 8-11. 112 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Jesus Christ is all that the Scripture in “ Hebrews ”’ claims Him to be, and He is eternal. Cruden states, “The word ‘Memra,’ which signifies ‘the Word,’ was used by the Chaldie Paraphiasts—the most ancient Jewish writers ex- tant, in those places where Moses puts the name Jehovah.” “ Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testsfy of me.” —Joun 5:39, “The invisible Christ was imperceptible to the so-called personal senses, whereas Jesus appeared as a bodily existence. This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, contin- ued until the Master’s ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disap- peared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes.”—S. & H. 334: XV. This is wholly contradicted by Jesus. “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and ~ FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 113 yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?”—Joun 14:7, 8, 9. “ And so it ts written, The first man Adam, was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quicken- ing spirit.”—I Cor. 15:45. “ He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus an- swered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed tt unto thee, but my Father which ts m heaven.’— Marr. 16: 15-17. “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: ...Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave hsm glory; that your faith and hope might be m God.’—I PrErTer 1:19, 21, “This was ‘the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,’—slain, that is, ac- cording to the testimony of the corporeal senses, but undying in the deific Mind. The Revelator represents the Son of Man as say- ing (Revelation 1:17, 18): ‘I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead (not understood); and, behold, I am alive for evermore, (Science has explained me).’ This is a mystical statement of the eternity of the Christ, and is also a reference to the human sense of Jesus crucified.”—S. & H. 334: XVI. “And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto 114 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forever more, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death,’—Rev. 1:17, 18. Anyone reading the first chapter of the Book of Revelation—the book that Jesus wrote by His amanuensis, John the Apostle, will find a concise statement of those things which Jesus wished to reveal to His people for all time to come. The seventeenth and eighteenth verses tell of His appearance to John that John might not fear at His appearance in His glory. This was an actual ap- pearance of the Son of God to the disciple whom He loved. John was now to write a book, without which the Gospel of Jesus Christ would not be com- plete, and this visit of our Lord was to prepare John for-the work before him. “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto lus servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signt- fied it by his angel unto his servant John: who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.’— PY it align) “ Spirit being God, there is but one Spirit, for there can be but one infinite, and there- fore one God. ‘There are neither Spirits many nor Gods many. ‘There is no evil in Spirit, because God is Spirit. The theory, that Spirit is distinct from matter but must FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 115 pass through it, or into it, to be individual- ised, would reduce God to dependency on matter, and establish a basis for pantheism.” —S. & H. 335: XVII. Contradicted by the following word of God in Scripture : “ Beloved, believe not every spwit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the spirit of God: Every spirit that con- fesseth that Jesus Christ ts come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of anttchrist, whereof ye have heard that tt should come; and even now already is st in the world. Ve are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater ts he that és in you, than he that is in the world.”—I Joun 4:1-4, “ Spirit, God, has created all in and of Himself. Spirit never created matter. There is nothing in Spirit out of which mat- ter could be made, for, as the Bible declares, without the Logos, the Aton or Word of God, ‘was not anything made that was made.’ Spirit is the only substance, the in- visible and indivisible infinite God. Things spiritual and eternal are substantial. Things material and temporal are insubstantial.”— Percrent goo sie VT Scripture plainly refutes such a statement as that 116 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “there is nothing in spirit out of which matter could be made.”’ We refer to the Spirit of God. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, “ And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ... And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let ithe dry land appear: and it was so... . And God made the beast of the earth after ls kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that «£ was good. “ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness: and let them have domsnston over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ... And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, 1t was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.’— —GEN. 1:1, 2, 9, 25, 26, 31. For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or prénci- palities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him,’—Cor, 1: 16. “ For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be Gods many, and Lords many,) but to us there ts but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.’—I Cor. 8: 5, 6. ce FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 117 “And to make all men see what 6s the fellowshtp of the mystery, which from the begsnning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.’—Epu, 3:9, “For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Amen.’”—Rom. biEs36: “ Soul and spirit being one, God and Soul are one, and this one never included in a limited mind or a limited body. Spirit 1s eternal, divine. Nothing but Spirit, Soul, can evolve Life, for Spirit is more than all else. Because Soul is immortal, it does not exist in mortality. Soul must be incorporeal to be Spirit, for Spirit is not finite. Only by losing the false sense of Soul can we gain the eternal unfolding of Life as immortality brought to light.”—S. & H. 335: XIX. This teaching is not in accord with Scripture. Life forms Soul, not Soul, Life. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’”—GEN. 2:7. The only begotten Son of God knew how to become incarnate in man, because He created man. God said, “ Let us make man.” “The same was in the begining with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. , . . And the Word 118 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we be- held lis glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth,’—JouHN Res Aa Wag Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by. me.’—JOuN 14:6. ** Mind is the divine Principle, Love, and can produce nothing unlike the eternal Father-Mother, God. Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal. Sin, sickness, and mortality are the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, and must be contradictions of real- ity.”—S. & H. 335: XX. There is no “ God-Mother ” mentioned in Scrip- ture. God had no Mother. He was in the begin- ning—the first and the last. The mother of Christians is Jerusalem above—the New Jerusalem. “ But Jerusalem which ts above is free, which is the mother of us all”’—Gat, 4: 26. “ But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels. To the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel,’—Hes. 12: 22-24, FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 119 “The Ego is deathless and limitless, for limits would imply and ‘impose ignorance. Mind is the I AM, or infinity. Mind never enters the finite. Intelligence never passes into non-intelligence, or matter. Good never enters into evil, the unlimited into the lim- ited, the eternal into the temporal, nor the immortal into mortality. The divine Ego, or individuality, is reflected in all spiritual in- dividuality from the infiniestimal to the infi- nite.’—S, & H. 335: XXI. The dictionary defines “ ego” as “‘ Self,” the seat of consciousness. “Be not righteous over much, neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?”— BOCL. 321.0; All men have consciousness, but one, the God-man, the incarnate, Emmanuel, (God with us) is God. God entered into the flesh. “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” “Immortal man was and is God’s image or idea, even the infinite expression of infi- nite Mind, and immortal man is co-existent and co-eternal with that Mind. He has been forever in the eternal Mind, God; but infinite Mind can never be in man, but is reflected by man. ‘The spiritual man’s con- sciousness and individuality are reflections of God. They are the emanations of Him Who is Life, Truth, and Love. Immortal 120 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE man is not and never was material, but always spiritual and eternal.”—-S. & H. 330, ONL. The above is a theory that created man (Adam) is co-existent with God and ‘is not material, but always spiritual and eternal.” We have already presented Scripture showing it without foun- dation and entirely contrary to the Word of God, but again we produce the evidence from God’s word of the worse than worthlessness of the theory. ; “And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in hs mouth, and said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus... . God is not a man, that he should lie; netther the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”—Nvum. 23: 16, 19. No man can know God the Father, except His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, reveal Him. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him?’—MatTt. Rey “ But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirit- ually discerned.’—I Cor, 2; 14. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 121 Adam was created in the image of God from the dust of the earth. He was the first man (Adam). “So God created man in his own émage, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”—GEN. 1:27, “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”—GEN. 2:7. The second man was Jesus Christ—the Lord from heaven. “The first man ts of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15: 47. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.”—Puit, 2: 5, 6. By His atonement Christ purchased those whom He brings to God, according to Scripture. “ As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this 1s life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.... And now, O Father, glorify me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. ... For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I come out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.’—Joun 17:2, Shay tel 122 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Only can they be one with God whom God has given to Jesus Christ. “And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast gwen me, that they may be one, as we are.... And now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. . . . Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word.’—JouN 17:11, 13, 20. When man is mentioned in Scripture he is cited as having all the being in which God created him— heart, soul and mind. Man’s body is a part of his being. When his body ceases to exist with life his spirit has departed to God who gave it. “And being found tn fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.’—Puit, 2:8. “God is indivisible. A portion of God could not enter man; neither could God’s fulness be reflected by a single man, else God would be manifestly finite, lose the deific character, and become less than God. All- ness is the measure of the infinite, and nothing less can express God.”—S. & H. 3367 XXII Jesus Christ being the express image of God, His person has all the fullness of God. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 123 “ How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salva- tion; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; ... Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and did set him over the works of thy hands.”’—HEp. 2: 3, 7. “Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anowmted thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.’—PsauM 45:6, 7. “ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up m him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudi- ments of the world, and not after Christ. For im him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.’—Cot.,. 2: 6-10. “God, the divine Principle of man, and man in God’s likeness are inseparable, har- monious, and eternal. The Science of being furnishes the rule of perfection, and brings immortality to light. God and man are not the same, but in the order of divine Science, God and man co-exist and are eternal. God is the parent Mind, and man is God’s spirit- ual offering.”—S. & H. 336: XXIV. This is contrary to Scripture. There comes a 124 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE time when God judges the dead, and when all nations are gathered for judgment. “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which ts the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. ... And whosoever was not found written in the book of Isfe was cast tnto the lake of fire.”—Rev. 20: 12, 15. When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. . . . Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, tnto everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.’—Mavrr., 25: 31-33, 41. é The being of man does not “ furnish the rule of perfection.” ‘That is only furnished by the atone- ment of Jesus Christ for man. Christian Science (so-called) repudiates the atonement made by Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. “T have seen an end of all perfection: but thy com- mandment is exceeding broad.”—PsaLM 119: 96. “ And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. . . . But not as the offence, so also ts the free gift: for if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 125 the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.’—Rom. 5:11, 15. “God is individual and personal in a sci- entific sense, but not in any anthropomorphic sense. Therefore, man, reflecting God, can- not lose his individuality; but as material sensation, or a soul in the body, blind mor- tals do lose sight of spiritual individuality. Material personality is not realism; it is not the reflection or likeness of Spirit, the per- fect God. Sensualism is not bliss, but bondage. For true happiness man must harmonise with his Principle, divine Love; the Son must be in accord with the Father, in conformity with Christ. According to divine Science, man is in a degree as perfect as the Mind that forms him. The truth of being makes man harmonious and immortal, while error is mortal and discordant.”—S. & F330: X XV. ‘““Anthropomorphic ” is defined as “ having hu- man form.” When Jesus Christ was made mani- fest as the Only Begotten Son of God, He became known as the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His person. “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the ex- press image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.’—Hes. 1: 3. 126 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE He also purged our sins, which we learn from Scripture were the sins that opened the way to death of man, who became a living soul when the Creator breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die?’—GEN. 2:17. “ Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son 1s mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall dée”’—EzekieEy 18: 4. “ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’— Joun 3: 16. Man, after his disobedience, needed a clean heart and a right spirit. It must be created in him— therefore, the new man Christ Jesus. “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. . . . Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.’—PsauM 51:7, 10. “ And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.’— Epn. 4: 24. “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who ts the image of God, should shine unto them. . . . For which cause FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 127 we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”’— II Cor. 4:4, 16. “ Howbeit that was not first which ts spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.’—I Cor. 15: 46, 47. If, according to Divine science, “‘ man is in a de- gree as perfect as the mind that forms him,” then we have made it plain that such science 1s wrong, for the man formed of the dust of the ground must have a renewing of the spirit and be created anew in the second man, Christ Jesus, according to Scripture. “ Christian Science demonstrates that none but the pure in heart can see God, as the gospel teaches. In proportion to his purity is a man perfect; and perfection is the order of celestial being which demonstrates Life in Christ, Life’s spiritual ideal.,—S. & H. SATO N I: There is only one way by which man can become perfect, and that is the way Scripture teaches us ;— that is, by the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ. “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.’”—Epu. 1:7. “In whom we have redemption through his blood, 128 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.”’— Coun ind e15: “ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide ts the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”— Mart. 7:13, 14. “ Neither is there salvation in any other: for there ts none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.’—Acts 4:12. “ Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.’—LUKE 22: 20, “ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that - not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.”—Epu. 2:8. “ The true idea of man, as the reflection of the invisible God, is as incomprehensible to the limited senses as is man’s infinite Prin- ciple. The visible universe and material man are the poor counterfeits of the invisible uni- verse and spiritual man. Eternal things (verities) are God’s thoughts as they exist in the spiritual realm of the real. ‘Temporal things are the thoughts of mortals and are the unreal, being the opposite of the real or the spiritual and eternal.’"—S. & H. Sea DOAN Unless man is born again, he remains in sin. “And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he 1s pure... . He that commit- FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 129 teth sin is of the devil; for the devil stnneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whosoever ts born of God doth not comnut sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”’—I JouN HG haepabe p _The natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirit- ually discerned,’—I Cor. 2: 14. Nowhere in so-called Christian Science is taught the new birth that we must be born again. “ Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptsble things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: ... Who verily was foreordained before the foun- dation of the world, but was manstfest in these last temes for you... . Being born again, not of cor- ruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.’—I1 PETER 1: 18-20 23. “ Subject sickness, sin, and death to the rule of health and holiness in Christian Science, and you ascertain that this Science 130 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is demonstrably true, for it heals the sick and sinning as no other system can. Christian Science, rightly understood, leads to eternal harmony. It brings to light the.only living and true God and man as made in His like- ness ; whereas the opposite belief—that man originates in matter and has beginning and end, that he is both soul and body, both good and evil, both spiritual and material—termi- nates in discord and mortality, in the error which must be destroyed by Truth. The mortality of material man proves that error has been ingrafted into the premises and con- clusions of material and mortal humanity.” —S. & H. 337: XXVIII. The effectual healing of the sinning is told in Scripture in a simple manner, being one way only —always the same—that it at once imputes belief in those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.’—Mart. 5: 6. “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe; for there is no difference.’—Rom. Maa hea “ But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.’—Joun 6: 64, 65. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 131 “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Naza- reth, whom ye crucified, whom God ratsed from the dead, even by lim doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which 1s become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there ts none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.’— Acts 4: 10-12, Man is both soul and body—both good and evil, according to Scripture. God brings men to the light, and that light is Jesus Christ. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.’—JOHN 1:4, “For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I... . For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil, which I would not, that I do. Now tf I do that I would not, tt 1s no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.’— ROMO / Lace 5 19) 20; “ How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! there- fore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. ... For with thee is the fountain of Isfe: in thy light shall we see light.’— PsauM 36:7, 9. “The word Adam is from the Hebrew Adamah, signifying the red colour of the ground, dust, nothingness. Divide the name Adam into two syllables, and it reads, a dam, 182 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE or obstruction. This suggests the thought of something fluid, or mortal mind in solu- tion. It further suggests the thought of that ‘darkness . . . upon the face of the deep,’ © when matter or dust was deemed the agent of Deity in creating man,—when matter, as that which is accursed, stood opposed to Spirit. Here a dam is not a mere play upon words; it stands for obstruction, error, even the supposed separation of man from God, and the obstacle which the serpent, sin, would impose between man and his creator. The dissection and definition of words, aside from their metaphysical derivation, is not scientific. Jehovah declared the ground was accursed; and from this ground, or matter, sprang Adam, notwithstanding God had blessed the earth ‘for man’s sake.’ From this it follows that Adam was not the ideal man for whom the earth was blessed. The ideal man was revealed in due time, and was known as Christ Jesus.’"—S. & H. 338: XXIX, God created man from that which He had already created. “ And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. The ground was not cursed until after man was created from its dust. The ground, when God created it, was pronounced good. FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 138 “ And God called the dry land Earth; and the gather- ing together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. ... And God saw every- thing that he had made, and, behold, tt was very good. And the evensng and the morning were the sixth day.’—GEn. 1:10, 31. Man formed from the dust of the ground was not complete until God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. He then became a living soul. The ground was not cursed because it was bad, but was because Adam had disobeyed and it was cursed for Adam’s sake. * And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast heark- ened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed ts the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of tt all the ate of thy life. "GEN. 3:17. “The destruction of sin is the divine method of pardon. Divine Life destroys death, Truth destroys error, and Love de- stroys hate. Being destroyed, sin needs no other form of forgiveness. Does not God’s pardon, destroying any one sin, prophesy and involve the final destruction of all sin?” —S. & H. 339: XXX, Sin in Scripture is not mentioned as destroyed. On the contrary, it is declared that one sinner can destroy much good. 1384 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.’—Ecct,. 9: 18. The making of good and evil, both, depends upon God. ‘To create or destroy good or evil is in the power of God alone. “T form the light, and create darkness: I make ‘peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.’— IsataH 45:7, We are to fight the good fight of faith. We are enjoined to lay hold on eternal life and to keep that which is committed to our trust by the grace of God, who quickeneth all things. “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast pro- fessed a good profession before many witnesses. -.. O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so-called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.’—I Timoruy 6: 12, 20, 21. “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that 1s in Christ Jesus.”—II Timoruy 2:1. Sin continues to exist to everlasting punishment in those whose names are not written in the Book of Life. “And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: tt is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 135 hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” —Mark 9: 43, 44. “And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. ... “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast mto the lake of fire.’— REVY 20s 20 15, * Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, be- ing contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God. A sinner can receive no encouragement from the fact that Science demonstrates the unreality of evil, for the sinner would make a reality of sin,—would make that real, which is unreal, and thus heap up ‘wrath against the day of wrath.’ He is joining in a conspiracy against him- self.—against his own awakening to the awful unreality by which he has been de- ceived. Only those who repent of sin and forsake the unreal, can fully understand the unreality of evil.”—S. & H. 339: XXXI. Scripture, as we have frequently quoted, declares that God creates both good and evil. “T form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, 136 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.’— IsatAu 45:7. This statement from §. & H. platform shows, when compared with the Word of God, how easily a theory, that is entirely wrong, may be advanced, if once the Scripture is departed from. The great unlikeness of God is Satan, the deceiver of men; and he exists, and until his time comes, will con- tinue to deceive mankind. We ask, how can there be an unreality of evil, if evil does not exist? “Tet no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that ¢s wor- shipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the tem- ple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Re- member ye not, that, when I was yet wth you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of sniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth, will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.’—II THEss. 2: 3-8. “As the mythology of pagan Rome has yielded to a more spiritual idea of Deity, so will our material theories yield to spiritual b) FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 137 ideas until the finite gives place to the infi- nite, sickness to health, sin to holiness and God’s kingdom comes ‘in earth, as it is in heaven.’ The basis of all health, sinlessness, and immortality is the great fact that God is the only Mind; and that this Mind must be not merely believed, but it must be under- stood. To get rid of sin through Science, is to divest sin of any supposed mind or reality, and never to admit that sin can have in- telligence or power, pain or pleasure. You conquer error by denying its verity. Our various theories will never lose their imagi- nary power for good or evil, until we lose our faith in them and make life its own proof of harmony and God. “This text in the book of Ecclesiastes conveys the Christian Science thought, es- pecially when the word duty, which 1s not in the original, is omitted: ‘Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter! Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.’ In other words: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Love God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole of man in His image and likeness. Divine Love is infinite. There- fore all that really exists is in and of God, and manifests His Love. ** Thou shalt have no other gods before me’ (Exodus xx:3). The First Com- mandment is my favourite text. It demon- strates Christian Science. It inculcates the triunity of God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that Man shall have no other spirit or mind 138 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE but God, eternal good, and that all men shall have one Mind. The divine Principle of the First Commandment bases the science of be- ing, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal. One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfills the Scripture, ‘ Love thy neighbour as thy- self’; annihilates pagan and Christian idol- atry,—whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalises the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suf- fer, be punished or destroyed.”—S. & H. 339: XX NLT The bounds of mankind were entered into by the Deity. The infinite when the Word which was with God, and was God, was made flesh and dwelt among us. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld hss glory, the glory as of the only begot- ten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.’— Joun 1:1, 14. Men can only reach the Deity through Jesus Christ. In the process of the saving, man is not unclothed, but clothed upon, by taking unto himself the gift of God, the new man Christ Jesus. “For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being FOOTSTEPS OF TRUTH—CREATION 139 burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the self same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.”—II Cor. 5:4, 5. Scripture does not end with directing man to “fear God and keep His commands.” If it did, there would be no hope for man. The law of com- mandments is overtaken by the covenant of grace. By grace are we saved. “Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by fasth.” —GaL,. 3: 24. “ Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.’—Rom. 5: 20. “ But God, who 1s rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;).... For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it és the gift of God.’”—Epu. 2: 4-5, 8. The entry or the omission of the word duty in Ficclesiastes 12: 13 does not change the meaning of Scripture, for the fourteenth (next) verse verifies the value of the reading as it is in the thirteenth verse. “Tet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is 140 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.’— Eccy. 12: 13-14. In this platform S. & H. gives forth a favourite text, namely, Exodus 20: 3. Could there possibly be a greater refutation of S. & H. error contained in platform eighteen, than that found in Exodus 20:11, said to contain a favourite text of the author? After reading the favourite text of the author of S. & H. may we not turn to the name of God, that He magnified above all others. “T well worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy loving kindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.”’—PsauM 138: 2. Should we represent His name as “ Spirit, Soul, Good, Mind, Harmony,’ when He has chosen to exalt the name “ Word—the Word made flesh,” Jesus Christ, the Name above all? “Jesus, Thy Name I love, All other names above, Jesus, my Lord.” IV “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED ”— REERISTUAN: SGIANOR RAG TICH —“ THACHING CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” N this chapter the three books, “ Some Objec- tions Answered,” “ Christian Science Prac- tice’ and “ Teaching Christian Science,” are reviewed. In “ Some Objections Answered,” S. & H. places itself in the position of assuming that its state- ments will be accepted at their face value, without due corroboration from Scripture. Selections of Scripture are sometimes quoted without acceptance of its vital truth, and used to enforce the ones ad- vanced as Christian Science. Here is an instance: On page 350 of S. & H. the following quotation from Scripture, “ ‘The Word was made flesh,” ap- pears. This Scriptural truth of the Deity of Jesus Christ is denied many times and in many ways by S. & H., both by separating Jesus from Christ and by denying the incarnation (the God-Man) and making the man Jesus to have a temporary exist- ence and not eternal. (See page 336) “ A portion of God could not enter man.” “ God is individual 141 142 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE and personal in a scientific sense, but not in any (a human form) anthropomorphic sense.” After which quotation, “ ‘’The Word was made flesh,’ ” the quotation is put to use in an attempt to enforce Christian Science theories. “Paul alludes to ‘ doubtful disputations.’ The hour has struck when proof and demon- stration instead of opinion and dogma, are summoned to the support of Christianity, ‘making wise the simple’”—S. & H. 342: 1, 2, 3, 4. Now Paul’s reference is to those weak in the faith. “ Him that is weak tn the fatth receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who ts weak, eateth herbs.’—Rom., 14: 1-2. For those outside of the Christian faith, who re- ceive not the Gospel as Paul preached it, Paul uses strong terms, and this he does in the very chapter from which S$. & H. makes the quotation. Paul’s references were evidently to questions which had arisen in the Church of his day. “For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men... . It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 143 nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or 1s made weak. ... And he that doubteth 1s damned tf he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever ts not of faith 1s sin.” Bream ld 17118021) 23. “Tf Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no in- variable law, and truth becomes an accident. Shall it be denied that a system which works according to the Scriptures has Scriptural authority ? “ Christian Science awakens the sinner, reclaims the infidel, and raises from the couch of pain the helpless invalid.”——S, & H. 342: 16-23. If Scripture works according to the system of S. & H. why was there any need of the second system ? Did not faith come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God? Paul so asserts: “So, then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.’—Rom. 10: 17. If “ Christian Science is in accord with Scripture,” then it is not a discovery, as claimed by S. & H. Why should the works of Jesus be proclaimed as a discovery ? “Then Jesus answermg, said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the 144 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel 1s preached.”— Luke 7: 22. No Christian but would rejoice in the deliver- ance of anyone from a-delusion of illness where such delusion existed, but every Christian must decline to follow where the communion in remem- brance of our Saviour delivered to the Church of Christ by the Saviour, and later by the apostle Paul, is disowned. | We quote—‘ Christian Science awakens the sinner.” But if sin is not a reality, how can there be a sinner? (See page 339 of S.& H.) “To get rid of sin through Science is to divest sin of any sup- posed mind or reality.” “Tt would sometimes seem as if truth were rejected because meekness and spirit- uality are the conditions of its acceptance, while Christendom generally demands so much less. “ Anciently those apostles who were Jesus’ students, as well as Paul, who was not one of His students, healed the sick and re- formed the sinner by their religion. Hence the mistake which allows words, rather than works, to follow such examples! Whoever is the first meekly and conscientiously to press along the line of gospel-healing, is often accounted a_heretic.”—S. 343: 21-30. “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 145 Untold numbers of Christians work, preach, heal, and give hope and salvation through Christ Jesus and are not heretics. Was not Paul a student of Jesus Christ? Who of the Apostles has broken the bread of life to mankind to a greater extent? From whom did he take his faith, courage, and strength? “And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? ... And he, trembling and astonished, sasd, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go snto the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”’— Acts 9: 3-4, 6. “ He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? ... For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principals- ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.’—Rom. 8: 32, 38-39, “Were it more fully understood that Truth heals and that error causes disease, the opponents of a demonstrable Science would perhaps mercifully withhold their misrepresentations, which harm the sick.”— . & H, 344: 11, 12, 13, 14, 146 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE But how can error cause disease if error be not a reality? “ The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testumony of the Lord 1s sure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord ts pure, enlightening the eyes....Who can undersaand his errors? cleanse thou 1 me from. secret JOU S PsauM 19: 7-8, 12. Here we find in Scripture that “ soul” is not God. It is that in man which needs to be converted. Soul is not what is taught by S. & H. (page 302-21), nor is S. & H. in accord with the following Scripture : “Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hsde a multitude of sins.’—JAMES Siew, We also learn from Scripture that error is so real that it may lead back to error those who have once escaped. “ For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.’—II PETER 2: 18. How sound is the doctrine that teaches us to pray the following prayer! “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 147 “ And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen,’—Matt. 6: 13. Should we not pray this prayer that we may be delivered from the evil that Paul, in his day, taught was to come? Here are Paul’s teachings of that coming day: \ “Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering to- gether unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. ... And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all decewable- ness of unrighteousness in them that perish; be- cause they recewed not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.’—II Tuxss. 2: 1-2, 8-10. “There are various methods of treating disease, which are not included in the com- monly accepted systems; but there is only one which should be presented to the whole world, and that is the Christian Science which Jesus preached and practised and left to us as His rich legacy.”—S. & H. 344 : 19-24 We call attention to this mention of “ Science,” which we find in the New Testament. 148 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so-called.’—I T1m- otHy 6: 20, “Why should one refuse to investigate this method of treating disease? Why sup- port the popular systems of medicine, when the physician may perchance be an. infidel and may lose ninety and nine patients, while Christian Science cures its hundred? Is it because allopathy and homeopathy are more fashionable and less spiritual? ’’—S. & "H. 344; 25-31. Answering this question, upon investigation Christian Science as portrayed in S. & H. is found to be un-Scriptural, and is, therefore, rejected by the Christian who accepts what Jesus taught and practised rather than a healing cult, whose teachi- ings reject Scripture. In the investigation there is found reason to be- lieve that professional services rendered in practice of Christian Science have much to do with the making of adherents to its theories. “Anybody, who is able to perceive the in- congruity between God’s idea and poor hu- manity, ought to be able to discern the distinction, (made by Christian Science) be- tween God’s man, made in His image, and the sinning race of Adam.”—S. & H. 345 : 21-24. | “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 149 “When man is spoken of as made in God’s image, it is not sinful and sickly mor- tal man who is referred to, but the ideal man reflecting God’s likeness.” —S. & H. 346: 2-5. We give God’s idea of humanity: “Thy first father hast sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.’—IsaiaH 43: 27. “ And God said, Let us make man in our wage, after our likeness; and let them have dominson over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man tn his own image, in the mage of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. ... And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, tt was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.’— Gen, 1: 26-28, 31. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into hts nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’—GEN. 2:7. We give, also, His word regarding His Only Be- gotten Son: “ And Jesus, when he was baptised, went up straight- way out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were 150 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon lim: And, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’—Marr. 3: 16-17. “Tt is written wn the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man, therefore, that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Ver- sly, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am the bread of lsfe.’— Joun 6: 45-48. “For the word of God 1s quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and ts a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Netther ts there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing, then, that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmu- ties; but was sn all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.’—Hes. 4: 12-16. Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, is nowhere in Scripture mentioned as made in God’s image. It was Adam who was thus created, but Jesus was conceived by the Holy Ghost, the God- man without sin, as all other men were created “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 151 liable to sin. We have given, above, the Scripture for these truths. As these pages are being written, already the sun is giving us its warm rays and fresh hopes of spring, and the promise of a following seed time and harvest. Fiven so the Son of righteousness rises, with -healing in His wings. Many are trusting under the shadow of His wings; many more will learn doctrine from that compass, Scripture, which points ever to Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God. “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing im his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall;’-—Maacui 4:2, “ They also that erred in spirst shall come to under- standing, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.’—IsAIAH 29: 24, “ Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will pub- lish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God. He ts the Rock, his work is perfect; for all his ways are yudgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right és he.’—DkgEvt. 32: 1-4. “*The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.’ Who is ready to admit this? ... 152 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “Tf Christian Science takes away the popular gods,—sin, sickness, and death,—it is Christ, Truth, who destroys these evils, and so proves their nothingness.”—-S. & H. 347: 1-2, 23-25. The lusting of the flesh against the spirit, quoted by S. & H., is against the Spirit, which God gives those who believe in his Son, which was not given to the disciples of Jesus until the Church of Christ received Him on the day of Pentecost. “ Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Ex- cept a man be born of water and of the Spirst, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which és born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirst.’—-JoHN 3: 5-6. “T indeed baptise you wth water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall bap- tise you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.’— Marr, 3:11. The spirit of natural man is not the Spirit which they receive who believe on Jesus Christ. “Tn the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Screpture hath satd, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given: he- “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 153 cause that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”—JouN 7: 37-39, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spirit- ually discerned.”’—I Cor. 2:14. The apostle Peter spoke of God’s Spirit as follows: “ But, Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his votce, and said unio them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spsrit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see vis- tons, and your old men shall dream dreams: and on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days, of my Spirtt; and they shall prophesy.”—Acts 2: 14-18. The “breath of life” breathed into Adam was not the Holy Ghost. That Spirit came upon be- lievers only. Before the day of Pentecost, when Christ’s Church received the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God was a gift to man from God. “ And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this ts, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Foras- much as God hath shewed thee all of thts, there ts 154 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE none so discreet and wise as thou art.’—GEN. 41 : 38-39, “ All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.’—GEN. 7: 22. “ And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me sev- enty men of the elders of Israel, whom thou know- est to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee. “ And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them, and they shall bear the bur- den of the people with thee, that thou bear tt not thyself alone... . “ And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. “ And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spwit that was upon him, and gave tt unto the seventy elders: and tt came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease. “ But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp “And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. “And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My Lord Moses forbid them. “SOME OBJECTIONS ANSWERED” 155 “ And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put ls spirit upon them.’—Num., 11: 16-17, 24-29. The reasoning of S. & H. is based upon the error that the spirit of man and the Spirit of God are identical, and thus it quotes the Scripture: “For the flesh lusteth against the S‘pirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would,”—Gat, 5:17. The part of the verse not quoted by S$. & H. and this following verse, “‘ But if ye be led of the spirit, ye are not under the law,” (Gal. 5:18), form plain testimony that the natural man under the law of God was incapable of fulfilling the requirements of the Spirit of God, and that a new covenant, that of the fulfillment by Jesus Christ for mankind was necessary ; and thus the Holy Ghost was given to believers on Jesus Christ. “ And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.” —Gat,. 5: 24. “Who hath believed our report? and to whom ts the arm of the Lord revealed? ... But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was brutsed for our imiquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. “All we, like sheep, have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath 156 BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE laid on him the swuqusty of us all.’—IsA1an 532 15-6. “ oO , = o oO a) = oO 4 w ‘ r oO oO = © = a faa) Vv P= | BP941 .S41J72 n Theological Seminar | | | | | |