Is it normal to buy and read such holy books?

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I have 'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures', a holy book by Mary Baker G. Eddy, and I've read it, God's a God of Love, and Truth, Spirit, Divine Mind, are blessings. Although Christian Scientists don't have to dress like Christians, I'll dress like a Christian, I'm only concerned with spiritual things, I act on His will. And I only obey God, I don't obey human beings. I'm decided on my faith: I'm a Christian Scientist, and am having a free Bible posted to me. The testimony of Christian Science is really a cherry-picked selection of words in the Bible, it's not the whole Bible, it only concerns Genesis and the Apocalypse. After reading some of that book I'm cleansed, and now am a changed man. I listen to Christian radio on Vision Australia, but can't quite get hold of a Christian Science radio station. I'm planning to get one more book by Mary Baker Eddy, for the sake of a history lesson. My only learning is holy learning, I reject education and endeavour to teach religion to the masses. My aim is maybe to start my own religion, one of Zius, and making up my own rules. However these rules are Zius's rules so it's spiritual, and I know the difference between invented rules and spiritual rules. Being millions of restrictions: what to eat, do this, don't do that, and do that this way, isn't God or Christianity, and it clearly states in 'Science and Health' that any healing by drugs is anti-Christian. I understand that this tends to be extremist, people think I'm following a cult, when really it's a quasi-cult. Is that normal?

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  • barstool
    5 years ago

    I thought Christian Scientists were relatively common, but apart from the 'rejecting medical science' thing I don't know anything about them.
    But first you say you're a christian scientist, then that you want to start your own religion, so which is it?

    Normal to get into spiritual and religious stuff, I guess. I don't think it's a good idea to actually commit yourself to any of it though, but that's just me.

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    • Hansberger
      5 years ago

      If it's a weird and wonderful religion, and a religion of love, it's worth following. It's also logical, because it uses no fallacies (except, perhaps, cherry-picking), but that was sane of the founder. If she was a purist she wouldn't have been an idealist in the first place. I myself am an idealist, I believe that consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all being, and I see that in Christian Science. Taken to its extremes, idealism can be used to stay alive without eating and to thus not get skinny, or to be used to make babies without any sex, but just the mind, which are possible, as everything's possible with God. It's even possible to watch pornography without sinning, since sin is an error of the mind and doesn't exist.

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  • lordofopinions
    5 years ago

    Sounds restrictive and "my religion is the only true religion" type of thing. I would distance myself.

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    • Hansberger
      5 years ago

      It's not really restrictive. There are lots of stupid things the book says nothing about, yet people are free to do them, but we must be intelligent and wise if we're to thrive in Christian Science.

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  • nikkiclaire
    5 years ago

    No. Just read a king james bible

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    • Hansberger
      5 years ago

      There are lots on evils in there and they're rather stupid. I will only read a King James Bible for Genesis and Revelations, otherwise I'll have the sword of unpeace thrusted on me.

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