| Church of Scientology Christian Science arose out of the religious and intellectual groups of the 19th century which included adaptation of Hindu pantheistic beliefs, teachings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, occult metaphysics and attempts to contact the dead and other spirits.
Christian Science and other sciences interpret the Bible from the perspective of a belief system that rejects the idea of a Creator God who is infinite, personal,good and distinct from his creation. Christian Science teaches that, 'God is not a person. God is a principle,' the principle of Impersonal Mind.
The Christian Science denial of the reality of the physical is similar to Hindu pantheism, reducing God to an impersonal force or idea. Furthermore, the material world is mere illusion. The practical outworking of Christian Science is that sin, sickness, suffering and evil have no objective existence (it's all in your mind) therefore medicine is unncessary.
However, the Bible says that God created the universe outside of himself and that what he created was real and good. According to the Bible, evil, sin, sickness and death is a result of the fall. |