What is Christian science?

Question

And what does its followers believe?

Answer 1

Christian Science is a denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy. It has a strong emphasis upon spiritual healing. Sickness is seen as an illusion.

The Tenets of Christian Science

1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.

2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.

3. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.

4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.

5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.

6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

From "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:3-29

Here is a Christian Science website:

http://www.christianscience.org

Answer 2

I consider myself a scientific Christian, I believe in as much science as I do the Bible - not everything can be explained by science and definetally not everything in the Bible is true either. For example I believe God set in motion the events that took place to make the Big Bang, and I believe in evolution, but I also believe in all the miracles Jesus did, and scientists have found fish skeletons high up in mountains dating the same time period when the Great Flood was supposed to have happened.

But I dont know anyone else who thinks the way I do, I had no idea there was a whole community out there.

Answer 3

There many definitions. Mine is that it as phony as a three dollar bill. If you want to make some money and you don't want to work..you could spend a little time to come up with a new religion..you could register your ministry as non profit, set yourself up as the head pastor and then set about convincing other people to join up and contribute money. You could set the standards by which your followers live and worship. In time, if you are good sales person, you could attract enough people to contribute to your financial well being...aaaannnd start your own newspaper. The Jehovah's witnesses started that way as did Christian scientist.. so did Scientology and the Jim Jones foundation.. God is big business, if you know how to capitalize on it. Christian scientists is the creation of a good sales person who didn't have to work at anything else.. and like I said.. it is as phony as a three dollar bill.

Answer 4

It's a religion founded by Mary Baker Eddy. Their followers mostly believe in healing by prayer. Many don't take medication or go to the doctor when ill. Their Sunday 'gatherings' are in Reading Rooms, not church. And they all get the same pamphlets to read across the board, all states.

Answer 5

It is a Scientology with a Christian twist. The Church of Christ Scientists and others try to reconcile Scientology and other forms of witchcraft with it's polar opposite, Christianity.

The two can not be reconciled and therefore there is no such thing as Christian Scientology. Jest Scientology with a Christian name to lure unsuspecting Christians in to their Lyons den.

Answer 6

Well i can't TELL you what it is,because your faithfull following mind wouldn't comprehend. Let me put it this way: Forget the part about positive and negative charges in clouds....Lightning strikes cos god wants it to.Same for fire,nuclear fusion,microwaves,gravity,mathematics and such... Christian science (oxymoron) in a nushell..

Answer 7

Christian Science is a small denomination which teaches that healing, as practiced by Jesus and the apostles, is actually a system of faith, not a short-term dispensation, which is how most Christians view it.

Their website answers just about any question you can think of.

Answer 8

Christian Science was begun by Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), who pioneered new ideas about spirituality and health. Inspired by her own experience of healing in 1866, Eddy spent years in Bible study, prayer, and research of various healing methods. The result was a system of healing she dubbed “Christian Science” in 1879. Her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, broke new ground in the understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection. She went on to found a college, a church, a publishing enterprise, and the respected newspaper “The Christian Science Monitor.” Because of its similarity to other groups, many believe Christian Science to be a non-Christian cult.

Christian Science teaches that God—Father-Mother of all—is completely good and wholly spiritual and that all God's creation, including the true nature of every person, is the flawless spiritual likeness of the Divine. Since God’s creation is good, evils such as disease, death, and sin cannot be a part of fundamental reality. Rather, these evils are the result of living apart from God. Prayer is a central way to come closer to God and heal human ills. This differs from the Bible, which teaches that man is born in sin inherited from Adam’s fall and that sin separates us from God. Without God’s saving grace through the death of Christ on the cross, we would never be healed of the ultimate sickness—sin.

Rather than teaching that Jesus heals our spiritual sickness (see Isaiah 53:5), Christian Scientists see Jesus’ ministry as their own paradigm for healing, believing it demonstrates the centrality of healing in regard to salvation. Christian Scientists pray to realize more of the reality of God and God's love daily and to experience and help others experience the harmonizing, healing effects of this understanding.

For most Christian Scientists, spiritual healing is an effective first choice and, as a result, they turn to the power of prayer in lieu of medical treatment. Government authorities have occasionally challenged this approach, especially in circumstances when medical treatment is withheld from minors. However, there is no church policy mandating members' health-care decisions.

Christian Science has no ministers. Rather, the Bible and Science and Health act as pastor and preacher. Bible lessons are studied daily and read aloud on Sunday by two elected lay members of each local congregation. Christian Science churches also hold weekly testimonial meetings, at which congregation members relate experiences of healing and regeneration.

Of all the “Christian” cults in existence, “Christian Science” is the most inaccurately named. Christian Science is neither Christian or based on science. Christian Science denies all the core truths of what makes a system “Christian.” Christian Science is, in fact, opposed to science and points to mystical new-age spirituality as the path for physical and spiritual healing. Christian Science should be recognized and rejected as the anti-Christian cult that it is.

Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-science.html#ixzz3SPPP1zgK

Answer 9

A practice that anyone may take up where Truth if Spiritually understood might be demonstrated upon the self or another next to you in thought or manifestation

Answer 10

Christian science is false science!