Christian Science offers a life of freedom from worry or anxiety. It
proposes to give the secret of the smiling face in the midst of any
sort of circumstances.
Christian Science offers complete freedom from the dominion of sin.
Christian Science offers to make faith a vital and all-pervading force
in daily life.
Christian Science offers to give deliverance from the bondage of
sickness.
It is not wise for Christians to attempt to meet Christian Science by
ridicule and sarcasm. Christian Science is offering to supply exactly
the things that the hearts of thousands of church members are craving.
It is not strange that many should be investigating its claims. If the
indication in a single Christian Science center is a fair criterion,
there are thousands of church members daily looking into this supposed
“new” teaching to see if they can find a faith with a vital reality in
it.
These things that Christian Science claims to supply are just the
things that are offered to every Christian through the sufficient grace
of the Lord Jesus.
The Victorious Life in Christ is a life kept free from worry or
anxiety. Its possessors have the secret of a constant, abiding joy that
is independent of circumstances (Phil. 4:6, 7; John 15:11; 16:22).
The Victorious Life, which is just Christ himself in the believer,
gives complete victory over sin, without struggle (Rom. 6:14; 1 Cor.
10:13; John 8:36).
The Victorious Life is the life of faith, walking in the Spirit,
looking unto Jesus, enduring as seeing him who is invisible, counting
the unseen things the eternal and real things (Col. 3:3; Gal. 2:20;
John 15:7).
The Victorious Life is a life of prosperity for body as well as for
spirit, for in Christ is the supply of every present need, for body,
soul, and spirit (3 John 2; Ps. 103:3; Matt. 8:17; Rom. 8:11).
If the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ were faithfully
preached there would be little prepared soil among church members for
the springing up of the seeds of “Christian Science.” It is the Enemy
who is sowing these seeds and the supreme sign of his subtle work is
this apparent likeness to the true grain. What is the fundamental
distinction between Christian Science and the Victorious Life in
Christ, between God’s truth and Satan’s imitation of that truth?