Christian Science Reading Rrooms seem to open to the public but I've never taken an opportunity to visit one. What should I expect when visiting?
2006-10-27 05:15:33 · 9 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Church of Christ, Scientist, often known as the Christian Science church, is a Christian denomination that arose in New England in the late nineteenth century. It has about 2,000 branches (local churches) in over 70 countries, with The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts being the denomination's headquarters.
The church was founded by the American, Mary Baker Eddy, in 1879 following a personal healing in 1866, which she claimed resulted from reading the Bible.[1] She called this experience "the falling apple" that led to her discovery of Christian Science. She was convinced that "the divine Spirit had wrought the miracle — a miracle which later I found to be in perfect scientific accord with divine law." (Ret 24) She then spent the next three years investigating the law of God according to the Bible, especially in the words and works of Jesus. The Bible and Eddy's textbook on Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, are together the church's key doctrinal sources and have been ordained as the church's "dual impersonal pastor.
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Reading Rooms are resources for personal growth, health, and spiritual discovery. If you would like a place for a quiet prayerful moment in the midst of a hectic day, you will find it here.
A Librarian is there to answer any questions you may have... but you are free to explore their many resources on your own, including a Lending Library and the Weekly Bible Lessons which are read in Church on Sunday
2006-10-27 05:27:39 · answer #1 · answered by nana_viki 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
if you ask anyone who isnt a christian what those rooms are they will tell you they are a false teaching room of science and that they teach science from the bible which is a oxymoron at best. science and christianity should not be put in the same sentence at any time. christian reading rooms are to teach falsehoods only and to spread more lies about there religion than there is already out there.
2006-10-27 12:19:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
To make Christians think they know something about Science.
2006-10-27 12:21:03 · answer #3 · answered by u r a dork 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
That sounds silly. Christian and science in the same title.
2006-10-27 12:17:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
"Christian Science" is a Protestant denomination. Their "reading rooms" are sort of a bookstore/library/evangelization tool.
2006-10-27 12:22:07 · answer #5 · answered by Max Marie, OFS 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
expect to get brain washed...it is really that simple...very dangerous cult if it is the same one as the one Ron L. Hubbard started. He started it as a joke. Do your research. It was never supposed to be a real religion. Like all of them they want your money and your brain so you will continue giving them money.
2006-10-27 12:20:32 · answer #6 · answered by KK 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋
To distract people from reading the bible for themselves.
2006-10-27 12:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Lots of nice people... just be weary of the zealots!
2006-10-27 12:17:52 · answer #8 · answered by dollface 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You can expect false teachings... stay away from there.
2006-10-27 12:28:26 · answer #9 · answered by SunValleyLife 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋