Christian Science Research Paper

The Church of Christ, Scientist, or The Christian Science Church is composed of The First Church of Christ Scientist and smaller branch churches in the world. They all agree on working to fulfill the teaching and vision of Mary Barker Eddy by teaching what her vision of a church was, and her understanding of Jesus Christ. Christian Scientists view God as being an “incorporeal Spirit, creative Principle, supreme, omnipotent Father-Mother, omnipresent and omniscient”. Human beings are seen as all the children of God although many people have not reached the level of understanding of the divinity obtained by Jesus Christ, who is seen as the embodiment of the “divine idea of sonship”. As God is the only true reality, people are subject to illusions concerning the nature of the material world. In the Christian Science teaching heaven and hell are not places, but rather consist of states of consciousness. Heaven is the bliss of realizing oneself with God and hell is the “self-made anguish” that comes from believing in pain and death. God is completely good, therefore, evil is illusionary in the view of Christian Science. Salvation consists of bringing oneself into “harmony with one’s true nature as God’s reflection,” which is a state that can be obtained through good works and the cultivation of Christian virtues.
Christian Science followers do not have belief in conventional physicians and view them as antagonist to their belief. Their views are, rather, seen as being ineffectual since they believe that disease resides in the body rather than in the mind and spirit. Although suffering and or illness appears to be real, Christian Scientists believe that this illusion evolves from false beliefs or errors in thought, which can be rectified though “asserting the truth of one’s being as an idea of