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Old 08-12-2010, 02:11 PM   #594
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Originally Posted by dsvick View Post
umm, I still don't get it...
It helps to know a bit about the beliefs of Christian Scientists, the denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879.

From the Religion Facts website:

The fundamental distinctive teaching of Christian Science is that creation is entirely spiritual and perfect and matter does not exist. Sin, sickness and death also do not exist; we only think they do. "The only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise" (Science and Health, 472:27-29).

According to Christian Science, humans are subject to the laws of matter only so long as we believe they are real. So just as in The Matrix Neo could mentally bend a spoon by realizing "there is no spoon," so Christian Scientists can heal themselves spiritually by realizing illness does not exist. (Note: This is a ReligionFacts analogy, not a Christian Science one.)

These core teachings are encapsulated in the "Scientific Statement of Being," which is read at every church service:

.....There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.
.....All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all.
.....Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error.
.....Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
.....Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness.
.....Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual. (S&H 468)

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Heaven and hell are states of mind. Heaven is "not a locality, but a divine state of Mind in which all the manifestations of Mind are harmonious and immortal" (Science and Health, 291:13-16). It is "Harmony; the reign of Spirit; government by the divine Principle; spirituality; bliss; the atmosphere of Soul." (Science and Health, 587:25-27). Hell is "Mortal belief; error; lust; remorse; hatred; revenge; sin; sickness; death; suffering and self-destruction; self-imposed agony; effects of sin; that which 'worketh abomination or maketh a lie.'" (Science and Health, 588:1-4).


Now that you have been properly prepped to enjoy the joke, did you laugh?
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