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I was
raised in a Christian Science home and as a young girl I attended the Christian
Science Sunday school each week and I was taught the unreality of matter or
mortal mind. I would hear my Sunday school teacher tell the class that the
table we were sitting at and the chairs that we were sitting on did not
exist. I knew in my heart that what my Sunday school teacher taught me were a
lie and not the truth concerning the world around me. I would constantly
question and disagree with my teacher each week, which would not put me at
the top of one's popularity list. How could I look out a window and believe
those small creatures such as birds and squirrels did not exist? |
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I was
indoctrinated with the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy who taught us that sin,
disease and death were unreal. If disease and death were unreal, why did Ellen
who was my best friend in high school die of leukaemia at such a young age?
She was cut down in the prime of her life even before she had a chance to
graduate from high school. If Ellen lived she would have had a chance to
attend college and would probably be married today with her own family. Several
years after my husband and I were married, we were both blessed with the
birth of our son. After he was born my husband and I continued to attend the
Christian Science Church for a short time. Our lives were turned up side down
when our infant son became ill. We knew in our hearts and using good common
sense that God gave us, we sought medical intervention for him. We weren't
going to put our child's life in the hands of a Christian Science
Practitioner because I personally knew in my heart that Christian Science
didn't heal. Several times in my life using the teachings of Christian
Science I tried to heal myself as a little girl, but I never received any
healings. |
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We really
started taking a close look at our spiritual lives and knew that we had to
attend some type of church, but what church? We didn't want to raise our son
in Christian Science because I no longer believed in Christian Science and my
husband was a Non-Scientist when we both married. We started attending a
bible believing community church in our area where I heard the gospel or good
news for the first time in my life. I heard that Jesus Christ came into the
world, died on the cross and shed his blood for my sins. Well, I knew in my
heart that I was a sinner and either the bible was truth or Christian Science
was truth, both of them couldn't be the truth. I was going to take the truth
of the Bible and not the lies of Science and Health. |
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The
Science and Health says on page 25: 6-9: 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 in his veins, as he went daily about his
Father's business. |
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The word
of God does not need a private interpretation of Mary Baker Eddy for us to
fully understand the truth of the bible. For the bible says in the book of
Ephesians 1: 7-8, "In him we have redemption through his blood, the
forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace that he
lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding." The bible
tells us that we are sinners because in the book of 1 John 1:8-10 it says: "If
we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we
make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives." |
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I'm so
grateful that my Heavenly Father delivered me from the false teachings of Christian
Science and revealed Himself to me through his Son who is the Lord Jesus
Christ. |
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Marjorie
C. Woodworth |
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E-mail: Woodworth895@cs.com |