What is Christian Scientist?

Question

My friend is a Christian Scientist and i dont really beleive in that religon i feel like its lying to urself but maybe she didnt explain it right..can someone explain it in simple terms?

Answer 1

Christian Science was taught by Mary Baker Eddy, the author of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures". Disease and illness are seen as illusions. They teach spiritual healing, and prefer that to the use of conventional medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_science
http://www.christianscience.com/

Answer 2

It is not really a simple religion, to most people, because it does challenge our human thought, and most find this very uncomfortable, especially in a world where most people do not have the courage to step out from the crowd and say, "stop the music."
Simply put, the basis is that God is all, infinite, filling all space, and that there is no god beside Him. He is Spirit, and so all is spiritual.
Now for the hard part. Our mortal bodies testify to a material state, which is the opposite of a spiritual state. This testimony is basically the serpent talking as a human entity, or a lie. But there is no place in God for this mortal state to be real or true, and so it must be overcome through the understanding of Christ.
You see, either God created man in a material form and knows all about death and can't do much about it, or He created man in His image, perfectly, spiritually, and eternally.
Each person, while on earth with there own free will, gets to choose which side of the fence to jump to. The majority, as it seems, is happy to believe what the body tells thought to be true, and so slips into the shackles of sin, disease, and death.
Christian Science is not the lie, but the way to disarm and then destroy all lies.

Answer 3

Someone who is half smart, half fearing/mind-controlled person.

I call them day walkers.

These people are halfway to intelligence and halfway to biblestory. Except really they are much much worse than a scientist they are everything againts evolution.

most likely because of the many many years they spend in churces. filling them with fear of eternity in a lake of fire. filling them with fear that if evolution, or "all that monkeh bullshet" were true, everything that they have will love, and ever loved that has died, will be and is gone forever.

They try everything in their power to dismiss evolution. the simple fact is, they can't. Ive seen many of these christian science websites, saying things like 'evolution is wrong, dna can't mutate."

a statement painted with irony and crucial stupidity.

DNA mutates. Email me and i'll explain the obvious reason why and happens each year around christmas in the winter.

All of you christian scientists do this as well ^ ^ ^ ^

Basically, a 'science' person driven mad by fear.

It's not a religuon also.

Answer 4

The brand name religion Christian Science shuns all of medical help, sometimes to their detriment, and sometimes to their help.

The cancer victims live longer in their religion because they don't do chemo to begin with. Usually the chemo kills before the cancer has a chance to kill.

Other diseases, they are not so lucky.

Answer 5

Christian Science is a religious teaching regarding the efficacy of spiritual healing according to the interpretation of the Bible by Mary Baker Eddy, in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (First published in 1875). Students of Christian Science are usually, though not always or necessarily, members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Christian Science should not be confused with material or physical science, has no connection with Scientology, and is distinct from Christian fundamentalism.
Christian Science does not rely on conventional medicine but holds that illness, eventually including death itself, can be healed through prayer and growing closer to God. This belief extends to the possibility of healing any kind of disharmony, not just illness. Christian Scientists see sin, disease, and death as illusions resulting from a false sense of separation from God. They believe that healing is accomplished when one's understanding of God grows. This may include a better understanding of one's perfection as the image and likeness of God.

At the core of Christian Science is the teaching that God and God's creation are entirely good and spiritual, and that God has made all things in His likeness. Christian Scientists hold that the reality of being and of all existence is spiritual, not material. They see this spiritual reality as the only reality and all else as illusion or 'error'. Christian Science acknowledges that we all seem to be experiencing a material existence, but holds that this experience ultimately yields to a true spiritual understanding of God and creation. They believe that this is how healing through prayer is possible.[1]

Prayer, from the Christian Science perspective, does not ask God to intervene, but is rather a process of learning more of God's spiritual reality - "awakening mortal thought", by degrees, to spiritual truth. Christian Scientists claim the effect of this spiritualization of thought is healing, -- physical, emotional, and otherwise. Consequently, health care is not attempted through drugs, surgery, or other physical manipulation, but through "Christian Science treatment", a specific form of prayer intended to spiritualize thought.[2].

While there is no formal compulsion on Christian Scientists either to use Christian Science healing or to eschew medical means[3] Christian Scientists avoid using the two systems simultaneously in the belief that they tend to counteract or contradict each other. Material medicine and Christian Science treatment proceed from diametrically opposite assumptions. Medicine asserts that something is physically broken and needs to be fixed, while Christian Science asserts that the spiritual reality is harmonious and perfect, and that any false belief to the contrary needs to be corrected.

Answer 6

look up mary baker eddy
i dont recall much about it...just that they arent into medications and medical procedures

Answer 7

Yah, and why is there a "reading room" right across from our library?

Answer 8

a scientist who follows the religion of Christianity?

Answer 9

an oxymoron