christian scientists

There is no reasoning with Christian Scientists because they live in their own reality: this world is a dream.

My mother has a elderly great aunt that is a Christian Scientist.

She's blind, crippled and becoming slightly demented in her old age.

She has supported her "ministry" for decades with her meager income and now they have abandoned her because she is crotchety, combative and confused.

She still pays hundreds of dollars each month to be allowed to call a "reader" who prays for her (but never visits), in fact the reader doesn't even listen to her concerns or talk to her, just the connection is enough; all he says is "I will pray".


Mark Twain wrote a book on the confused CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST"S, it's sadly still applicable.
There is no reasoning with them.

Rob

 

In Rev 1 and in Exodus God's "Form" is described. You also have the "Form" of angels described by Ezekiel. We have a "notion" that they can't really be telling "the truth" since God and angels are not allowed to have a form (in our all-knowing opinion).

But suppose the speculative guesswork common today "is wrong" and suppose that like the risen Christ - they all have some "Form".

In that case - Man may well have been made, in Character, in physical form, "like" God (in some way). Whether it is the just that we have two feet, two hands and one head as God is described to have in the Bible - or whether it goes beyond that I don't know - but I tend to "Believe" the Bible when it discribes God (especially if it is coming from someone viewing God) and I tend to believe it when it says that Man was FORMED in the image of God (in some way - likely to be physical given the context of FORMING man from the dust).

That view puts a nail in the Christian-Science doctrinal coffin.

In Christ,

Bob

 

I didn't know there was such a thing as a Christian Scientist???? It sounds like an oxymoron(sp?) to me? Well like the saying goes..."learn something new every day" .... I guess? Thanks for the info ~Deacon and Bob~

Music4Him

 

Christian Apologetics and Research Ministries has a pretty decent page on Christian Science and Questions to Ask Christian Scientists

Wikipedia - Christian Science is always good for relatively unbiased information but they won't help much in terms of a response from a Christian perspective.