Innocence and Truth overcome guilt and error.
Self-abnegation, by which we lay down all for Truth, or Christ, in our warfare against error, is a rule in Christian Science.
He that touches the hem of Christ's robe and masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing,--in a sweet and certain sense that God is Love.
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Friday, October 14, 2011
Day 283: Revelation xii. 9-12
Monday, April 25, 2011
Day 106: Specific Guidance
Day 95’s reading is about treatment (or thought that make up a healing treatment). Today’s reading is about specific guidance for our own actions, thoughts, and lives.
I’ve copied the text of these two pages and keep them on my mobile phone with me at all times.
I would love to know what pages have you marked as ***important and why?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Day 283: Questions for the Audience
The book of Revelation is almost completely unfamiliar to me. In reading this chapter, The Apocalypse, I don’t know what is going to happen next in the biblical text. This is the first chapter where I have had to read and re-read to figure out what is going on biblically and from Mary Baker Eddy’s explanation.
The point she makes that I was most unaware of, so far, is that Genesis and Revelation both start with true stories and then proceed with false stories. So just for clarification, where does the true Revelation story start and end? If you know, please comment below.
She comes back to two points that are interesting but have been a while since she mentioned:
- Self-abnegation is a rule in Christian Science
- He that [1] touches the hem of Christ’s robe and [2] masters his mortal beliefs, animality, and hate, rejoices in the proof of healing
What does she mean by touches the hem of Christ’s robe? Is the figurative interpretation that someone reaches out for Christ?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Day 233: Inductive Reasoning
MBE says you must accept Christian Science by inductive reasoning which she explains as:
We admit the whole, because a part is proved and that part illustrates and proves the entire Principle.
Taken by itself, this statement is misleading. MBE has always started with God as all, so, to me this is the entire Principle and everything else comes from it. If you understand what she is saying, can you add a comment below with your thoughts?
MBE also lists for elements to demonstrate a healing:
- self-denial
- sincerity
- Christianity
- persistence
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