Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to header Skip to footer

YOUR QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

Following the example set by the question and answer columns in the early Journals, when Mary Baker Eddy was Editor, this column will respond to general queries from Journal readers– such as the one above–with responses from Journal readers. It will not cover questions about how to interpret statements in Mrs. Eddy's writings. There's more information at the end of the column about how to submit questions.

QUESTION:

From the December 2007 issue of The Christian Science Journal


After hearing and reading the following two passages for years at the end of a Sunday service, I admit I don't clearly see a correlation between "the scientific statement of being" from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures and the correlative Scripture of First John 3:1–3. Can you bring out the essence of their interaction?

Question.—What is the scientific statement of being?

Answer.—There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.—Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468

Sign up for unlimited access

You've accessed 1 piece of free Journal content

Subscribe

Subscription aid available

 Try free

No card required

More In This Issue / December 2007

concord-web-promo-graphic

Explore Concord—see where it takes you.

Search the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures