Our Beliefs

The heart and soul of Christian Science is love
"God is love"
I John 4:8

The Commandments, The Sermon on the Mount – The Lord’s Prayer, The Beatitudes – and the inspired Word of the Bible are central to our lives and practise of Christianity.

"A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another."
Christ Jesus
John 13:34
"Love fulfils the law of Christian Science..."
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.572

The key points that concisely summarise the practise of Christian Science are listed below.

Tenets of Christian Science

  1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
  2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.
  3. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
  4. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
  5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
  6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.
Mary Baker Eddy
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.496

"What is Christian Science?"

This brochure gives an introduction to the theology and practice of Christian Science and the activities of The First Church of Christ, Scientist and its publications.

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