Mrs. Eddy writes: "Man is incapable of sin, sickness and death" (S. & H., p. 475).
"Sin, sickness, and death are to be classified as effects of error" (S. & H., p. 473).
"Suffering, sinning, dying beliefs are unreal" (S. & H., p. 76).
"Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense" (S. & H., p. 71).
"DEATH. An illusion, the lie of life in matter; the unreal and untrue; the opposite of life" (S. & H., p. 584).
Was there ever a more cynical, cold-hearted denial of fact? Was there ever a more palpable travesty of the truth? Take an ordinary Bible Concordance, and you will find the word sin occurs nearly six hundred times in the Scriptures. Yet Christian Science has the audacity to say that no such thing exists, and it has the hypocrisy to pretend that its teaching affords a Key to the Scriptures!
But, says Christian Science, Christ is only an idea, Christ never died, there is no such thing as death, there is no such thing as sin. Could contradiction of Scripture be more complete? Could blasphemy be more audacious? Could nine words of Scripture more completely refute Christian Science?
Does it never strike Christian Scientists, in spite of their doctrine that death is but an illusion, that death regularly claims its toll of Christian Scientists in the same proportion as those who are taught that death is a terrible reality? Does it never strike them that death after all is real, and that Christian Science is a great delusion?