Synopses & Reviews
What is Christian Science? Is it Christianity, or is it something different? The 2015 revised edition of this classic book provides an in-depth analysis of the teachings of Christian Science compared to Biblical Christianity, with updated references to current Christian Science source texts. Readers will learn how Christian Science and Christianity are utterly incompatible by contrasting their teachings on topics like: sin, evil, death, sickness, Jesus, prayer, God and marriage. Readers may be surprised to learn that Christian Science teaches that: - "Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death." - "Evil is but an illusion... Evil is a false belief" - "Man is never sick" - "There is no death. The body cannot die." - "Man is... neither young nor old. He has neither birth nor death." - "The danger from prayer is that it may lead us into temptation." - "God is... not a person" - "The theory of three persons in one God (that is, a personal Trinity or Tri-unity) suggests polythe¬ism" - "The spiritual Christ was infallible; Jesus, as material manhood, was not Christ." - "Matter is the unreal" - "Jesus came to seek and to save such as believe in the reality of the unreal; to save them from this false belief..." - "Christ never died" - "The material blood of Jesus was no more efficacious to cleanse from sin, when it was shed upon 'the accursed tree' than when it was flowing through His veins, as He went daily about His Father's business."
Synopsis
Shows how Christian Science and Christianity are utterly incompatible by contrasting their teachings on topics like: sin, evil, death, sickness, Jesus, prayer, God and marriage.
About the Author
Dr. I.M. Haldeman was born in Concordville, PA. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He trusted in Jesus at 20 years of age. He was Pastor of Brandywine Baptist Church in Chadds Ford, PA, and later of Delaware Avenue Baptist Church in Wilmington, DE from 1875-1884. He became Pastor of 1st Baptist Church in New York City in 1884, and served there until his death in 1933. He was the author of many books, including: - How to Study the Bible - The Coming of Christ - Theosophy of Christianity - Can Morality Save Us? - The Tabernacle, Priesthood and Offerings - Why I Preach the Second Coming - Christ, Christianity and the BibleTom Stewart was raised in the Christian Science church. His mother was extremely active in Christian Science and was a Christian Science Practitioner for years. Christian Science was present in his family for several generations. Tom witnessed first-hand the damage Christian Science can do to an individual's health and soul. Tom became a Christian at the age of 24.