Chapter 6: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter VI - Science, Theology, Medicine

All evil unnatural

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not seem so surprising and unnatural as error, and error

should not seem so real as truth. Sickness should not seem

so real as health. There is no error in Science, and our

lives must be governed by reality in order to be in har-

mony with God, the divine Principle of all being.

The error of carnality

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When once destroyed by divine Science, the false evi-

dence before the corporeal senses disappears. Hence the

opposition of sensuous man to the Science of

Soul and the significance of the Scripture, "The

carnal mind is enmity against God." The central fact of

the Bible is the superiority of spiritual over physical power.

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THEOLOGY

Churchly neglect

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Must Christian Science come through the Christian

churches as some persons insist? This Science has come

already, after the manner of God's appoint-

ing, but the churches seem not ready to re-

ceive it, according to the Scriptural saying, "He came

unto his own, and his own received him not." Jesus once

said: "I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and

earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise

and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even

so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight." As afore-

time, the spirit of the Christ, which taketh away the cere-

monies and doctrines of men, is not accepted until the

hearts of men are made ready for it.

John the Baptist, and the Messiah

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The mission of Jesus confirmed prophecy, and ex-

plained the so-called miracles of olden time as natural

demonstrations of the divine power, demonstra-

tions which were not understood. Jesus' works

established his claim to the Messiahship. In

reply to John's inquiry, "Art thou he that should come,"