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If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners? – 2

Jesus assumed for mortals the weakness of flesh, that Spirit might be found “All-in-all.” Hence, the human cry which voiced that struggle; thence, the way he made for mortals’ escape. Our Master bore the cross to show his power over death; then relinquished his earth-task of teaching and demonstrating the nothingness of sickness, sin, and death, and rose to his native estate, man’s indestructible eternal life in God.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.63:30-8)

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If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners? – 1

     If there is no reality in sickness, why does a Christian Scientist go to the bedside and address himself to the healing of disease, on the basis of its unreality? Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the reality of the unreal; to save them from this false belief; that they might lay hold of eternal Life, the great reality that concerns man, and understand the final fact, — that God is omnipotent and omnipresent; yea, “that the Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him,” as the Scriptures declare.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.63:22-30)

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Statement in Class

Can our errors be met and overcome other than by crucifixion?  No, there is no other way, else Jesus could not have been crucified.  Each one must pass through Gethsemane and up Calvary’s height to the cross. . . .
After the crucifixion the resurrection.  Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.215)

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If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners?

If there is no reality in sickness, why does a Christian Scientist go to the bedside and address himself to the healing of disease, on the basis of its unreality? Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the reality of the unreal; to save them from this false belief; that they might lay hold of eternal Life, the great reality that concerns man, and understand the final fact, — that God is omnipotent and omnipresent; yea, “that the Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him,” as the Scriptures declare.   (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.63:11-21)

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Can you all hear the wonderful tone that has just been struck – a tone never before heard in human consciousness? Could you, my dear ones, but see the grandeur of your outlook, the sublimity of your hope – and the infinite capacity of your being – you would do what? Let error kill itself. It comes to you for life and you give it the only life it has – in belief.
     My life is a manifestation of divine Life from which I derive all
moral and physical health. Therefore, my life should be beyond the
reach of accidents as the divine Life is.   Mary Baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.215)

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Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal without it? – 3

     Our Master understood that Life, Truth, Love are the triune Principle of all pure theology; also, that this divine trinity is one infinite remedy for the opposite triad, sickness, sin, and death.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.63:7-10)

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Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal without it? – 3

     The theology of Christian Science is based on the action of the divine Mind over the human mind and body; whereas, “mind-cure” rests on the notion that the human mind can cure its own disease, or that which it causes, and the sickness of matter, — which is infidel in the one case, and anomalous in the other. It was said of old by Truth-traducers, that Jesus healed through Beelzebub; but the claim that one erring mind cures another one was at first gotten up to hinder his benign influence and to hide his divine power.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.62:28-6)

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Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal without it? – 2

     A “mind-cure” is a matter-cure. An adherent to this method honestly acknowledges this fact in her work entitled “Mind-cure on a Material Basis.” In that work the author grapples with Christian Science, attempts to solve its divine Principle by the rule of human mind, fails, and ends in a parody on this Science which is amusing to astute readers, — especially when she tells them that she is practising this Science.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.62:20-27)

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Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal without it? – 1

     The theology of Christian Science is Truth; opposed to which is the error of sickness, sin, and death, that Truth destroys.  (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.62:14-19)

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(A student’s notes from the class of 1889) – 12

Darkness is merely the absence of light. Who says that darkness has power? Self. What is self? Absence of identity, the not Spirit, shadow, error, myth, a dream, an apparent thing. Empty yourself of natural sympathy. Natural sympathy means suffering with a person; be full of the divine sympathy. Disease exists as feeling only; all we have to destroy is the belief. We do not dream dreams; the dreams dream us.   Mary baker Eddy

(Oakes, Richard, Course In Divinity and General Collectanea, p.214-215)