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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 41.

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Exposed by the Search-Light

In reviewing a book on “Christian Science in the Light of Holy Scripture,” by I. M. Haldeman, Chicago, the Bible Record places in parallel columns some of the glaring contrasts drawn by the author. The following clipping shows vividly the unchristian character of the science:—

Christian Science Versus Holy Scripture

“There is no matter.”
“Man is incapable of sin.”
“Man is never sick.”
“‘There is no death.’”
“Man is coexistent with God.”
“God is not a person.”
“The Virgin Mother conceived this idea of God, and gave to her ideal the man Jesus.”
“Jesus is not the Christ.”
“The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin, when it was shed upon the ‘accursed tree,’ than when it was flowing through his veins.”
“‘Resurrection: Spiritualization of thought.’”
“His reappearance in idea.”
“There is no final judgment.”
“Prayer to a personal God is a hindrance.”
“The claims of the marriage covenant may be relinquished by mutual consent or legally dissolved.”
“The personality of Jesus not to be worshiped.”
“The material record of the Bible is no more important to our well-being than the history of Europe and America.”
“Christ was incorporeal.”
“Church of Christ Scientist.”
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
“All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.”
“They brought him all sick people.”
“It is appointed unto men once to die.”
“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.”
“The express image of his person.”
“When he cometh into the world, he saith, . . . A body hast thou prepared me.”
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?”
“Without shedding of blood is no remission.”
“Jesus saith: ‘Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.’”
“Judgment to come.”
“For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee.”
“What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow.”
“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.”
“Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh . . . is that spirit of Antichrist.”
“Many shall come in my name . . . and shall deceive many.”