If the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ were faithfully
preached there would be little prepared soil among church members for
the springing up of the seeds of “Christian Science.” It is the Enemy
who is sowing these seeds and the supreme sign of his subtle work is
this apparent likeness to the true grain. What is the fundamental
distinction between Christian Science and the Victorious Life in
Christ, between God’s truth and Satan’s imitation of that truth?
Error’s Imitations of Truth
Christian Science says: “In nothing be anxious: there is nothing to be
anxious about. All troubles are creations of the mind, results of wrong
thinking, and the cure for them is to think them away.”
The Word of God says, “In nothing be anxious.” Not because there is
nothing to be anxious about. There is. There is that which required
the bloody sweat of the Son of God in Gethsemane. But the Word of God
tells us that full provision has been made for those wrong things that
may well cause anxiety. Back of the word of the Spirit in Philippians,
“In nothing be anxious,” is God. Back of the Christian Science word is
“mortal mind.”
Christian Science says, “Reckon yourselves dead unto sin: because sin
has no real existence, and since it is a creation of the wrong thinking
of mortal mind, the way to think it out of existence is to reckon
yourself dead to it. As you reckon, as you believe, you are dead to
sin, and for you it has no reality or existence.”
Faith Does Not Create Facts
The Word of God says, “Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto
sin.” Not because sin does not exist. It does. Not because sin is not
real. There is nothing more real in the universe. But Jesus Christ has
met the full measure of the guilt and penalty and pollution of sin,
and has completely conquered it. If we are crucified with him, buried
with him and risen again with him, as every child of God is, then
we are to reckon it true that we are dead unto sin: not because our
thinking can change facts, but because God himself tells us to count on
a great fact, something that he himself has accomplished; as we reckon
that fact true our faith is laying hold of the benefits in present
experience of that redemption which God has accomplished. _My faith
does not make the fact true._ Faith gives me the benefit of a fact that
is true whether I believe it or not. True faith is impossible without
something real to rest upon. Satan’s counterfeit faith in Christian
Science returns upon itself, endeavors to create facts by thinking them
true.
Christian Science says that sickness and death are delusions of the
mortal mind. It does not offer a scheme of healing disease but a
philosophy to make clear that disease does not exist except as an error
in the thinking of mortal mind. Clear away that error in thinking, and
the effects of the so-called sickness will disappear.
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