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| Subject: 30 MBE: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
ASKED AND ANSWERED
Mary Baker Eddy employed the use of questions and answers in her writings and instructed us do do the same in Sunday School. See Article XX, Section 3, Subject for Lessons of our Church Manual. ( Man 62-63) It’s interesting to read her answers to a wide variety of questions ranging from salvation to suicide. Some questions were submitted to her by others but many others she herself asked and answered as a teaching method. What follows are over 220 questions under more than 60 headings. They are listed alphabetically by subject with some appearing under different headings.
ADDICTION:
Can your science cure intemperance? -Mis 37:16
Is it wrong for a wife to have a husband treated for sin, when she know he is sinning, or for drinking and smoking? -Mis 90:8
ANIMALS:
Do animals and beasts have a mind?-Mis 36:6
ATHEISM (SEE FAITH)
BELIEF (SEE FAITH)
BEAUTY
Why are the earth and mortals so elaborate in beauty, color, and form, if God has no part in them?
-Un 52:22
The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assuming manifold forms and colors,--are they not tangible and material? -Rud 6:3
What are God’s identities? What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? -S&H 70:14
BIBLE:
Will the Bible, if read and practiced, heal as effectually as your book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”?-My 238:1
Are the Scriptures inspired? Are they true? Did Jesus mean what he said?-Mis 193:1
“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.” (Matt. xix. 28.) What is meant by regeneration?-Mis 73:22
Did the salvation of the eunuch depend merely on his believing that Jesus Christ was the Son of
God?-Mis 77:1
If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” -Mis 63:22
What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief, “To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?
-Mis 70:10
Why does the record make man a creation of the sixth and last day, if he was coexistent with God?
-Mis 57:25
BIRTH:
Does Christian Science set aside the law of transmission, parental desires, and good or bad influences on the unborn child? -Mis 71:11
BODY/SENSES
Does brain think, and do nerves feel, and is there intelligence in matter?-S&H 478:14
What are body and Soul? -S&H 477:19
Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? -S&H 488:14
How does Mrs. Eddy know that she has read and studied correctly, if one must deny the evidence of the senses? She had to use her eyes to read. Jesus said, “Having eyes, see ye not?”-Mis 58:10
Why do you insist that that there is but one Soul, and that Soul is not in the body? -Mis 75:6
If mortal mind and body are myths, what is the connection between them and real identity, and why are there as many identities as mortal bodies? -Mis 60:23
Do you believe in change of heart? -Mis 50:18
CHANCE
Are material means the only refuge from fatal chances? -S&H 394:24
CHILDREN
How can I govern a child metaphysically? Doesn’t the use of the rod teach him life in matter? -Mis 51:12
CHRIST (SEE JESUS/CHRIST)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE/SYSTEM/THEOLOGY
Is Christian Science from beneath, and not from above? -No 14:16
Is Christian Science pantheistic? -No 15:19
Is Christian Science blasphemous? -No 18:1
Is Christian Science of the same lineage as spiritualism or theosophy? -No 13:15
What are the demands of the Science of Soul? -S&H 467:1
What is the scientific statement of being? -S&H 468:8
Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmerism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? -S&H 484:6
Is Christian Science contradictory? -S&H 546:9
If Christian Science is the same as Jesus taught, why is it not more simple, so that all can readily understand it? -Mis 53:21
Is Christian Science based on the facts of both Spirit and matter? -Mis 55:16
Has Christ come again on earth? -Mis 180:8
What are the advantages of your system of healing, over the ordinary methods of healing
disease? -Mis 33:21
Why do Christian Scientists hold that their theology is essential to heal the sick, when the mind-cure claims to heal without it? -Mis 62:14
Is spiritualism or mesmerism included in Christian Science? -Mis 34:10
How would you define Christian Science? -Rud 1:1
What is the Principle of Christian Science? -Rud 1:5
Is healing the sick the whole of Science? -Rud 2:22
What are the means and methods of trustworthy Christian Scientists? -Rud 13:23
Is Science material? -’01 22:4
Does the theology of Christian Science aid its healing? -Mis 58:19
CHRISTIANITY AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
The Rev.----said in a sermon: A true Christian would protest against metaphysical healing being called Christian Science. He also maintained that pain and disease are not illusions but realities; and that it is Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so? -Mis 68:7
Do we not see in the commonly accepted teachings of the day, the Christ-idea mingled with the teachings of John the Baptist? -Mis 81:10
Please explain Paul’s meaning in the text, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” -Mis 84:19
If not ordained, shall the pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist, administer the communion,--and shall members of a church not organized receive communion? -Mis 90:21
Do I believe in the atonement of Christ? -Mis 96:17
Is there no sacrificial atonement? -No 33:12
Should Christians beware of Christian Science? -No 41:1
The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? -S&H 146:2
How shall we demean ourselves towards the students of disloyal students? And what about that clergyman’s remarks on “Christ and Christmas”? -Mis 32:3
If Christian Science is the same as Jesus taught, why is it not more simple, so that all can readily understand it? -Mis 53:21
CONSCIOUSNESS
Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have we any other consciousness than that of good? -Mis 179:8
CREEDS AND DOCTRINE
Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man? -S&H 471:22
Have Christian Scientists have any religious creed? -S&H 496:28
CRIME/PUNISHMENT
Can matter commit a crime? Can matter be punished? -S&H 105:10
DEATH/MORTALITY
After the change called death takes place, do we meet those gone before?--or does life continue in thought only as in a dream? -Mis 42:1
If this life is a dream not dispelled, but only changed, by death,--if one gets tired of it, why not commit suicide? -Mis 52:18
If one has died of consumption, and he has no remembrance of that disease or dream, does that disease have any more power over him? -Mis 58:1
Does it not limit the power of Mind to deny the possibility of communion with departed friends--dead only in belief? -Mis 60:12
Is it possible to know why we are put into this condition of mortality? -Mis 64:25
Do you believe in translation? -Mis 67:24
Is there infinite progression with man after the destruction of mortal mind? -Mis 82:13
Is there no death? -Un 37:0
Does God know or behold sin, sickness, or death? -Un 1:11
DEVIL (SEE EVIL)
DISEASE/SICKNESS
Will you explain sickness and show how it is to be healed? -S&H 493:9
Can all classes of disease be healed by your method? -Mis 41:18
How can you believe there is no sickness, when Jesus came healing the sick? -Mis 60:3
Have you changed your instructions as to the right way of treating disease? -Mis 65:17
Sickness has been combated for centuries by doctors using material remedies; but the question arises, Is there any less sickness because of these practitioners? -S&H viii:16
The Rev.----said in a sermon: A true Christian would protest against metaphysical healing being called Christian Science. He also maintained that pain and disease are not illusions but realities; and that it is Christian to believe they are illusions. Is this so? -Mis 68:7
In your book, Science and Health, [1] page 81, you say: “Every sin is the author of itself, and every invalid the cause of his own sufferings.” On page 182 you say, “Sickness is a growth of illusion, springing from a seed of thought,--either your own thought or another’s.” Will you explain this seeming contradiction?
-Mis 83:5
Is a Christian Scientist ever sick, and has he who is sick been regenerated? -Mis 85:4
Is a man sick if the material senses indicate he is in good health? And is he well if the senses say he is sick? -S&H 120:10
Does God know or behold sin, sickness, or death? -Un 1:11
DOCTORS
Sickness has been combated for centuries by doctors using material remedies; but the question arises, Is there any less sickness because of these practitioners? -S&H viii:16
DREAMS
If all that is mortal is a dream or error, is not our capacity for formulating a dream, real; is it not God-made; and if God-made, can it be wrong, sinful, or an error? -Mis 49:15
DRUGS (SEE MIXING WITH PRAYER)
DUTIES/OBLIGATIONS
But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? -Mis 176:25
Have Christian Scientists and religious creed? -S&H 496:28
What are the demands of the Science of Soul? -S&H 467:1
EGO
What is the Ego, whence its origin and what its destiny? -S&H 281:9
ERROR
What is error? -Mis 472:13
Did God, Truth create error? -S&H 287:11
EVIL/DEVIL
What is evil? -Mis 289:7
If God made all that was made, and it was good, where did evil originate? -Mis 45:21
If God created only the good, whence comes the evil? -Mis 346:9
What say you of evil? -Un 52:15
Do Christian Scientists believe that evil exists? -’01 14:6
Is there a personal devil? -No 22:15
Does evil proceed from good? -S&H 356:25
Does divine Love commit a fraud on humanity by making man inclined to sin, and then punishing him for it? -S&H 356:26
Did God create evil? or is evil self-existent, and so possessed of the nature of God, good? Since evil is not self-made, who or what hath made evil? -Pan 5:8
FAITH/BELIEF/ATHEISM
You speak of belief. Who or what is it that believes? -S&H 487:13
Must I have faith in Christian Science in order to be healed by it? -Mis 33:12
Can an atheist or a profane man be cured by metaphysics, or Christian Science? -Mis 45:12
Can belief destroy belief? -Mis 334:25
FEAR
Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have been healed by Christian Science? -Mis 93:6
What is it that harms you? -Mis 8:13
FORM
Why are the earth and mortals so elaborate in beauty, color, and form, if God has no part in them?
-Un 52:22
The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assuming manifold forms and colors,--are they not tangible and material? -Rud 6:3
What are God’s identities? What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? -S&H 70:14
Can the infinite Mind inhabit a finite form? Is the God of theology a finite or an infinite Person? Is He one Person, or three persons? -’01 6:9
FRIENDS/PERSONALITY/PERSON
Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? -S&H 266:6
What, then, is material personality which suffers, sins, and dies? -S&H 285:7
Is God a physical personality? -S&H 285:15
Popularity,--what is it? -Mis 330:25
Do Christian Scientists believe in personality? -’01 5:14
Can the infinite Mind inhabit a finite form? Is the God of theology a finite or an infinite Person? Is He one Person, or three persons? -’01 6:9
Is there a personal man? -Mis 97:20
Is man a person? -No 25:8
GOD
What is God? -S&H 465:8
Are these terms synonymous? -S&H 465:11
Is there more than one God or Principle? -S&H 465:11
Does God behold sin, sickness, and death? -1:11
Do you believe in God? -Un 48:5
By the individuality of God, do you mean that God has a finite form? -Rud 3:24
Is God the Principle of all science, or only of Divine or Christian Science? -Rud 4:6
Do you mean by this that God is a person? -Rud 1:10
Is there a personal deity? -No 19:10
What are God’s identities? What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? -S&H 70:14
Is God a physical personality? -S&H 285:15
What is the reality of God and the universe? -Un 34:25
GRAVITATION
What is gravitation? -Un 35:13
HARM
Are material means the only refuge from fatal chances? -S&H 394:24
What is it that harms you? -Mis 8:13
HEALING
What are the advantages of your system of healing, over the ordinary methods of healing
disease? -Mis 33:21
Is healing the sick the whole of Science? -Rud 2:22
Is it important to understand these explanations in order to heal the sick? -S&H 482:13
Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmerism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? -S&H 484:6
The question then as now was, How did Jesus heal the sick? -S&H 136:9
The ancient Christians were healers. Why has this element of Christianity been lost? -S&H 146:2
Is it necessary to study your Science in order to be healed by it and keep well? -Mis 38:25
What are the advantages of your system of metaphysical healing, over the ordinary methods of healing disease? -Mis 33:21
In what way is a Christian Scientist an instrument by which God reaches others to heal them, and what most obstructs the way? -Mis 39:25
Can all classes of disease be healed by your method? -Mis 41:18
Can Christian Science cure acute cases where there is necessity for immediate relief, as in membranous croup? -Mis 44:6
Because none of your students have been able to perform as great miracles in healing as Jesus and his disciples did, does it not suggest the possibility that they do not heal on the same basis? -Mis 54:25
Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely well myself? -Mis 71:1
Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have been healed by Christian Science? -Mis 93:6
How is healing done in Christian Science? -Mis 96:24
How should I undertake to demonstrate Christian Science in healing the sick? -Rud 8:7
Is there more than one school of scientific healing? -Rud 16:14
What are the foundations of metaphysical healing? -Hea 13:22
HEAVEN
Is heaven spiritual? -My 267:15
What is the kingdom of heaven? -Mis 174:16
Is this kingdom afar off? -Mis 174:18
HYPNOTISM/MESMERISM (SEE MESMERISM)
IDENTITY
Is man lost spiritually? -S&H 311:8
How shall we reach our true selves? -Mis 104:23
Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have we any other consciousness than that of good? -Mis 179:8
What are God’s identities? What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? -S&H 70:14
What are body and Soul? -S&H 477:19
INTELLIGENCE/MIND/mind
Is there infinite progression with man after the destruction of mortal mind? -Mis 82:13
What is intelligence? -S&H 469:7
What is Mind? -S&H 469:12
What is immortal Mind? -Mis 35:27
Do animal and beasts have a mind? -Mis 36:6
What is the distinction between mortal mind and immortal Mind? -Mis 36:19
JESUS/CHRIST
Has Christ come again on earth? -Mis 180:8
The question then as now was, How did Jesus heal the sick? -S&H 136:9
Did the salvation of the eunuch depend merely on his believing that Jesus Christ was the Son of God?
-Mis 77:1
If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” -Mis 63:22
What did Jesus mean when he said to the dying thief, “To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise”?
-Mis 70:10
Are the Scriptures inspired? Are they true? Did Jesus mean what he said? -Mis 193:1
Was it just for Jesus to suffer? -S&H 40:17
Why did Jesus call himself “the Son of man”? -Mis 83:20
If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was “the way, the truth, and the life”, cognize it?
-Mis 74:11
LEARNING (SEE TEACHING)
LIFE
What is Life? -S&H 468:25
What is organic life? -Mis 56:3
Why did God command, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,” if all the minds (men) have existed from the beginning, and have had successive stages of existence to the present time? -Mis 56:25
Which instructs Life,--matter or Mind? Does Life begin with Mind or with matter? Is Life sustained by matter or by Spirit? -S&H 531:25-27
MALPRACTICE
What do you consider to be mental malpractice? -Mis 31:1
MAN
What is man? -S&H 475:5
Is there a personal man? -Mis 97:20
Is man a person? -No 25:8
Do the five corporeal senses constitute man? -S&H 488:14
Why does the record make man a creation of the sixth and last day, if he was coexistent with God?
-Mis 57:25
Has man fallen from a state of perfection? -Mis 78:25
Do you believe in man? -Mis 49:1
Is man material or spiritual? -Rud 7:8
What is man? Brain, heart, blood, bones, etc., the material structure? -S&H 172:23
Has man a soul? -No 28:24
Is man lost spiritually? -S&H 311:8
How shall we reach our true selves? -Mis 104:23
MARRIAGE
What do you think of marriage? -Mis 52:11
Is it wrong for a wife to have a husband treated for sin, when she know he is sinning, or for drinking and smoking? -Mis 90:8
Is marriage nearer right than celibacy? -Mis 288:16
MARY BAKER EDDY
Who is the Founder of mental healing? -Mis 34:28
Does Mrs. Eddy take patients? -Mis 37:25
Can you take care of yourself? -Mis 39:13
Do you teach that you are equal with God? -Mis 46:10
Has Mrs. Eddy lost her power to heal? -Mis 54:3
Am I a spiritualist? -Mis 95:14
Do I believe in the atonement of Christ? -Mis 96:17
Do I believe in a paersonal God? -Mis 96:7
What are your politics? -My 276:23
What is your attitude to science in general? Do you oppose it? -My 345:7
MATTER
Do you believe in matter? -Un 50:3
Is there no matter? -Rud 4:19
If Spirit is all and is everywhere, what and where is matter? -S&H 223:8
Is Spirit the source or creator of matter? -S&H 278:1
If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was “the way, the truth, and the life”, cognize it?
-Mis 74:11
MATTER VS SPIRIT, MIND and MATERIAL SENSE VS SPIRITUAL SENSE
Is Christian Science based on the facts of both Spirit and matter? -Mis 55:16
If God does not recognize matter, how did Jesus, who was “the way, the truth, and the life”, cognize it?
-Mis 74:11
Is materiality the concomitant of spirituality, and is material sense a necessary preliminary to the understanding and expression of Spirit? -S&H 484:28
Are material things real when they are harmonious, and do they disappear only to the natural sense?
-Mis 72:18
Does this Scripture, “Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things,” imply that Spirit takes note of matter? -Mis 72:19
Is not the basis of Mind-healing a destruction of the evidence of the material senses, and restoration of the true evidence of spiritual sense? -Rud 6:8
Is man material or spiritual? -Rud 7:8
Is Spirit the source or creator of matter? -S&H 278:1
Is God’s image or likeness matter, or a mortal, sin, sickness, and death? Can matter recognize Mind? Can infinite Mind recognize matter? Can the infinite dwell in the finite or know ought unlike the infinite? Can Deity be known through the material senses? Can the material senses, which receive no direct evidence of Spirit, give correct testimony as to spiritual life, truth, and love? -S&H 284:11
Are thoughts divine or human? -S&H 462:23
Which instructs Life,--matter or Mind? Does Life begin with Mind or with matter? Is Life sustained by matter or by Spirit? -S&H 531:25-27
Is our consciousness in matter or in God? Have we any other consciousness than that of good? -Mis 179:8
Can a single quality of God, Spirit, be discovered in matter? -Pan 5:2
MESMERISM/HYPNOTISM/SPIRITUALISM
Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmerism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? -S&H 484:6
What should one conclude as to Professor Carpenter’s exhibitions of mesmerism? -Mis 47:27
Is spiritualism or mesmerism included in Christian Science? -Mis 34:10
Is a belief of nervousness, accompanied by great mental depression, mesmerism? -Mis 51:5
MILLENNIUM
Must mankind wait for the millennium--until every man and woman comes into the knowledge of Christ and all are taught of God and see their apparent identity as one man and one woman--for God to be represented by His idea or image and likeness? -My 239:12
MIND VS BODY, MIND OVER MATTER
Is not all argument mind over mind? -Mis 59:18
If mortal mind and body are myths, what is the connection between them and real identity, and why are there as many identities as mortal bodies? -Mis 60:23
MISTAKES
How is a mistake to be rectified? -Un 20:1
MIXING PRAYER AND DRUGS
Does Christian Science, or metaphysical healing, include medication, material hygiene, mesmerism, hypnotism, theosophy, or spiritualism? -S&H 484:6
Are both prayer and drugs necessary to heal? -Mis 51:29
Do you sometimes find it advisable to use medicine to assist in producing a cure, when it is difficult to start the patient’s recovery? -Mis 53:11
Is it right for a Scientist to treat with a doctor? -Mis 88:27
If Scientists are called upon to care for a member of the family, or a friend in sickness, who is employing a regular physician, would it be right to treat this patient at all; and ought the patient to follow the doctor’s directions? -Mis 89:4
Sickness has been combated for centuries by doctors using material remedies; but the question arises, Is there any less sickness because of these practitioners? -S&H viii:16
Which was first, Mind or medicine? -S&H 142:26
MORTAL MIND
Is there infinite progression with man after the destruction of mortal mind? -Mis 82:13
What is the distinction of mortal mind and immortal Mind? -Mis 36:19
OBJECTS/THINGS/FORM/COLOR/OBJECTS
Is it correct to say of material objects, that they are nothing and exist only in imagination? -Mis 86:9
Why are the earth and mortals so elaborate in beauty, color, and form, if God has no part in them?
-Un 52:22
The sweet sounds and glories of earth and sky, assuming manifold forms and colors,--are they not tangible and material? -Rud 6:3
What are God’s identities? What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? -S&H 70:14
Well, electricity, engineering, the telephone, the steam engine--are these too material for Christian Science? -My 345:10
What is your attitude to science in general? Do you oppose it? -My 345:7
But the pursuit of modern material inventions? -Mis 345:25
Is anything real of which the physical senses are cognizant? -Un 8:4
PAIN
If I have a toothache, and nothing stops it until I have the tooth extracted, and then the pain ceases, has the mind, or extracting, or both, caused the pain to cease? -Mis 44:13
Why need pain, rather than pleasure, come to this mortal sense? -S&H 212:8
PERSONALITY/PERSON (SEE FRIENDS)
PRACTITIONER’S CHARGES
Why do you charge for teaching Christian Science, when all the good we can do must be done freely?
-Mis 59:11
PRAYER
Is it wrong to pray for the recovery of the sick? -Mis 59:11
Is there no intercessory prayer? -No 38:24
What are the motives for prayer? Do we pray to make ourselves better or to benefit those who hear us, to enlighten the infinite or to be heard of men? -S&H 2:1
Are we benefited by praying? -S&H 2:4
Audible prayer is impressive; it gives momentary solemnity and elevation to thought. But does it produce and lasting benefit? -S&H 7:8
“The prayer of faith shall save the sick,” says the Scripture. What is this healing prayer? -S&H 12:1
PROGRESS
Is there infinite progression with man after the destruction of mortal mind? -Mis 82:13
PUNISHMENT (SEE CRIME)
RELAPSE
Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have been healed by Christian Science? -Mis 93:6
Must I study your Science in order to keep well all my life? I was healed of a chronic trouble after one month’s treatment by one of your students. -Mis 54:17
SALVATION
If mortal man is unreal, how can he be saved, and why does he need to be saved? I ask for information, not for controversy, for I am a seeker after Truth. -Mis 89:20
SCIENCE AND HEALTH
Does “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” explain the entire method of metaphysical healing, or is there a secret back of what is contained in that book, as some say? -Mis 50:5
Will the book Science and Health, that you offer for sale at three dollars, teach its readers to heal the sick,--or is one obliged to become a student under your personal instruction? And if one is obliged to study under you, of what benefit is your book? -Mis 35:15
Will the Bible, if read and practiced, heal as effectually as your book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”?-My 238:1
SICKNESS (SEE DISEASE)
SIN
Can fear or sin bring back old beliefs of disease that have been healed by Christian Science? -Mis 93:6
Is it wrong for a wife to have a husband treated for sin, when she know he is sinning, or for drinking and smoking? -Mis 90:8
Does God know or behold sin, sickness, or death? -Un 1:11
Is the sick man sinful above all others? -S&H 318:16
Is there no sin? -S&H 472:23
What sins? -Mis 61:20
How can you believe there is no sin, and that God does not recognize any, when He sent His Son to save from sin, and the Bible is addressed to sinners? -Mis 60:1
If there is no sin, why did Jesus come to save sinners? -Mis 63:11
Is sin forgiven? -No 30:1
Is there any such thing as sin? -No 32:10
In your book, Science and Health, [1] page 81, you say: “Every sin is the author of itself, and every invalid the cause of his own sufferings.” On page 182 you say, “Sickness is a growth of illusion, springing from a seed of thought,--either your own thought or another’s.” Will you explain this seeming contradiction?
-Mis 83:5
Does divine Love commit a fraud on humanity by making man inclined to sin, and then punishing him for it? -S&H 356:25
SOUL
What is Soul? Does life or soul exist in the thing formed? -S&H 70:14
What is Soul? Is it a reality within the mortal body? Who can prove that? -Un 28:3
Why do you insist that there is but one Soul, and that Soul is not in the body? -Mis 75:6
What are body and Soul? -S&H 477:19
What are spirits and souls? -S&H 466:7
Has man a Soul? -N0 28:24
SPIRIT VS MATTER (SEE MATTER)
SPIRITUALISM (SEE MESMERISM/HYPNOTISM/SPIRITUALISM)
SPIRITS
What are spirits and souls? -S&H 466:7
SUBSTANCE
What is substance? -Un 34:25
What is substance? -S&H 268:16
SUICIDE (SEE DEATH)
TEACHING/LEARNING
How can I progress most rapidly in the understanding of Christian Science? -S&H 495:25
How happened you to establish a college to instruct in metaphysics, when other institutions find little interest in such a dry and abstract subject? -Mis 38:13
Do all who at present claim to be teaching Christian Science, teach it correctly? -Mis 43:6
Was there ever a person made insane by studying metaphysics? -Mis 48:23
What can prospective students of the College take for preliminary studies? Do you regard the study of literature and languages as objectionable? -Mis 64:9
Have you changed your instructions as to the right way of treating disease? -Mis 65:17
Can Christian Science Mind-healing be taught to those who are absent? -Mis 78:7
What course should Christian Scientists take in regard to aiding persons brought before the courts for violation of medical statutes? -Mis 79:26
Should not the teacher of Christian Science have our textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures”, in his schoolroom and teach from it? -Mis 91:21
Is there more than one school of Christian Science? -S&H 112:3
Is a musician made by his teacher? -Mis 340:18
THEOLOGY OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (SEE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE)
TOOTHACHE
If I have a toothache, and nothing stops it until I have the tooth extracted, and then the pain ceases, has the mind, or extracting, or both, caused the pain to cease? -Mis 44:13
TREATMENT
Can I be treated without being present during treatment? -Mis 42:29
Is it right for me to treat others, when I am not entirely well myself? -Mis 71:1
Is it wrong for a wife to have a husband treated for sin, when she knows he is sinning, or for drinking and smoking? -Mis 90:8
TRUTH
Is Truth material? -’01 22:5
WEIGHT
How can I believe that there is no such thing as matter, when I weigh over two hundred pounds and carry about this weight daily? -Mis 47:1
WOMAN
What say you of woman? -Un 51:13
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