Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
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42:15 The resurrection of the great demonstrator of God's
power was the proof of his final triumph over body and matter, and gave full evidence of divine 42:18 Science, - evidence so important to mortals. The belief that man has existence or mind separate from God is a dying error. This error Jesus met with divine 42:21 Science and proved its nothingness. Because of the won- drous glory which God bestowed on His anointed, temp- tation, sin, sickness, and death had no terror for Jesus. 42:24 Let men think they had killed the body! Afterwards he would show it to them unchanged. This demonstrates that in Christian Science the true man is governed by 42:27 God - by good, not evil - and is therefore not a mortal but an immortal. Jesus had taught his disciples the Science of this proof. He was here to enable them to 42:30 test his still uncomprehended saying, "He that believ- eth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." They must understand more fully his Life-principle by casting 43:1 out error, healing the sick, and raising the dead, even as they did understand it after his bodily departure. Pentecost repeated 43:3 The magnitude of Jesus' work, his material disappear- ance before their eyes and his reappearance, all enabled the disciples to understand what Jesus had 43:6 said. Heretofore they had only believed; now they understood. The advent of this understanding is what is meant by the descent of the Holy Ghost, - that 43:9 influx of divine Science which so illuminated the Pentecos- |
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