I loved all the quotes in this reading. They made me smile.
Showing posts with label Science Theology Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science Theology Medicine. Show all posts
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Day 84: Agreement
The physician agrees with his "adversary quickly," but upon different terms than does the metaphysician; for the matter-physician agrees with the disease, while the metaphysician agrees only with health and challenges disease.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Day 82:
Christian Science deals wholly with the mental cause in judging and destroying disease. It succeeds where homeopathy fails, solely because its one recognized Principle of healing is Mind, and the whole force of the mental element is employed though Science of Mind, which never shares its rights with inanimate matter.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Day 80: Authorial Honesty
This is one of the readings where Mary Baker Eddy’s authorial honesty in her own path may have sparked debate or even been used against her but I think the reading is spiritually significant. We get to see what she tried, why, and how it worked.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Day 79: Free Moral Agency
Mary Baker Eddy uses the term free moral agency in this section.
Don’t confuse this with free will. People usually use free will to say they have a choice about something as opposed to man imposing on other men. At some point human will moves from an individual right to a personal corruption where we no longer have to listen or be advised. We can just do because we have free will.
That has nothing to do with free moral agency. If you are listening to God, your moral compass is properly attuned and you act accordingly. Human will or free will lets you be your own God.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Day 77: The Example
He prescribed no drugs, urged no obedience to material laws, but acted in direct disobedience to them.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Day 76: Healing
Scientific healing has this advantage over other methods, – that in it Truth controls error.
If there is any mystery in Christian healing, it is the mystery which godliness always presents to the ungodly, – they mystery always arising from ignorance of the laws of eternal and unerring Mind.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Day 74: Healing
Lots of good instruction in this reading about theology today.
We worship spiritually, only as we cease to worship materially.
Few understand or adhere to Jesus’ divine precepts for living and healing. Why? Because his precepts require the disciple to cut off the right hand and pluck out the right eye, – that is, to set aside even the most cherished beliefs and practices, to leave all for Christ.
In healing the sick and sinning, Jesus elaborated the fact that the healing effect followed the understanding of the divine Principle and of the Christ-spirit which governed the corporeal Jesus.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Day 72: Christianity Explained
This reading explains Christian Science from a historical perspective. Jesus had to eventually explain it:
Christianity … [is] the demonstration of divine Love casting out error and healing the sick, not merely in the name of Christ, or Truth but in demonstration of Truth, as must be the case in the cycles of divine light.
He asked his disciples who or what he was? Simon replied:
Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God!
His method for healing:
He showed that diseases were cast out neither by corporeality, by materia medica, nor by hygiene, but by the divine Spirit, casting out the errors of mortal mind.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Day 71: Miracles
Yesterday’s reading was about faith, today’s reading is about miracles.
Denial of the possibility of Christian healing robs Christianity of the very element, which gave it divine force and its astonishing and unequalled success in the first century.
The miracle introduces no disorder, but unfolds the primal order, establishing the Science of God’s unchangeable law. Spiritual evolution alone is worthy of the exercise of divine power.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Day 70: Faith
Today’s reading is about faith in God as opposed to faith in established theology, or material beliefs.I think the word faith muddles the discussion because, these days, it has taken on a different theological flavor in some ways. A better word might be trust. Do we trust God? How much? All the way?
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Day 69: Material belief & False evidence
While looking for the perfectibility of man, I came across these:
Christian Science, properly understood, would disabuse the human mind of material beliefs which war against spiritual facts; and these material beliefs must be denied and cast out to make place for truth. You cannot add to the contents of a vessel already full.
When once destroyed by divine Science, the false evidence before the corporeal senses disappears.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Day 68:
We must look deep into realism instead of accepting only the outward sense of things.
I’ve been challenging myself with this for a few days now but it is nice to have the idea so succinctly stated.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Day 67: Thought
All Science is divine. Human thought never projected the least portion of true being. Human belief has sought and interpreted in its own way the echo of Spirit, and so seems to have reversed it and repeated it materially; but the human mind never produced a real tone nor sent forth a positive sound.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Day 65: Evidence of the Physical Senses
The evidence of the physical senses often reverses the real Science of being, and so creates a reign of discord,--assigning seeming power to sin, sickness, and death; but the great facts of Life, rightly understood, defeat this triad of errors, contradict their false witnesses, and reveal the kingdom of heaven,--the actual reign of harmony on earth.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Day 64: Testify
it to be impossible for aught but Mind to testify truly or to exhibit the real status of man.
Science shows appearances often to be erroneous, and corrects these errors by the simple rule that the greater controls the lesser.
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