Christian Science Denies That Jesus Died

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It affirms that the testimony to His death by His disciples was based on delusion.
"His disciples believed Jesus to be dead while he was hidden in the sepulcher, whereas he was alive, demonstrating within the narrow tomb the power of Spirit to overrule mortal material sense" (S. &. H., p. 44).
The daring profanity of this denial cannot be exceeded. Without the death of Christ the whole fabric of Christianity falls to the ground, and the Scriptures would be a cruel fraud. Listen how the apostle Paul begins his clear and logical argument as to the death and resurrection of Christ. "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that CHRIST DIED for our sins according to the Scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:33For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; (1 Corinthians 15:3)).
Again it says: "Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For in that HE DIED, HE DIED unto sin once: but in that He liveth, He liveth unto God" (Rom. 6:9, 109Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. (Romans 6:9‑10)).
Similarly, Christian Science denies the most notable miracle performed by the Lord Jesus, viz., the raising of Lazarus. "Jesus restored Lazarus by the understanding that Lazarus had never died.... Had Jesus believed that Lazarus had lived or died in his body, the Master would have stood on the same plane of belief as those who buried the body, and he could not have resuscitated it" (S. & H., p. 75).
How unfortunate for Christian Science it is that when the disciples mistook the Lord's allusion to Lazarus sleeping, we read: "Then said Jesus unto them plainly, LAZARUS IS DEAD" (John 11:1414Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead. (John 11:14)).
"LAZARUS IS DEAD." Will you believe this statement of the Son of God, or accept that of Mrs. Eddy?
Of course, if the true deity and humanity and death of the Lord Jesus are denied, it naturally follows that, Christian Science denies the atonement.