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LIFE - 07/20/14

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Andrew

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07/14/2014 07:46

Life has no partnership with death!!!

"It is a self-evident error to suppose that there can be such a reality as organic animal or vegetable life, when such so-called life always ends in death. Life is never for a moment extinct. Therefore it is never structural nor organic, and is never absorbed nor limited by its own formations."SH4

Are we noticing what a radical departure Science is from the status quo - where death is the ultimatum of life? There is nothing more basic to human existence, nor to typical Christian practice!! We must WAKE UP, WAKE UP. Jesus himself said that if you follow his commandments you will never see death. And Mrs. Eddy explains why.

We have been taught to start the day: "God is Life. God is my life. God is the only Life." It follows that anything that is capable of dying is not life at all - and yet the human condition is obsessed with avoiding death, and staying alive as long as possible - INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO GOD AS LIFE. Our existence is so infinitely more secure in His keeping - there is no underlying anxiety there, but a confident expectancy of good, a certainty that whatever comes us into our experience must turn us to God with more fervency and gratitude.

Thought another way - every time we turn to matter for our salvation, we are digging our grave! The security felt in this approach is unfounded indeed. No wonder the message from God throughout the Bible is "Thou shalt have no other gods before Me." - not a tyrannical God, but Love itself!

Edited by Andrew - 07/14/2014 13:03




 
MaryBeth

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07/14/2014 10:19

Re: Life has no partnership with death!!!

Thank you! Wonderful! It reminds me of this statement from Mrs. Eddy - "Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb." So which will it be - "supernal freshness and fairness" or the "woes of sense".?!



 
Peter

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07/17/2014 14:10

Re: Life has no partnership with death!!!

Another thought:

What happens if we look to Spirit for salvation from matter? Isn't that doomed, as well?




 
Peter

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07/17/2014 14:16

Re: Life has no partnership with death!!!

.... in the sense that Life has no partnership with matter or material life.

S&H snwers the question of course:

"It is sometimes said that Christian Science teaches the
nothingness of sin, sickness, and death, and then teaches
how this nothingness is to be saved and healed.
The nothingness of nothing is plain; but we
need to understand that error is nothing, and that its
nothingness is not saved, but must be demonstrated in
order to prove the somethingness – yea, the allness –
of Truth."