In this contrast between Christian Science and the Word of God it will
be seen that the teachings of this “faith” cult make faith impossible.
Satan always strikes at the center of things in his attacks on
Christians and on the Word of God; so he takes away their faith and
that which it rests upon. Again and again in personal interviews with
those seeking victory, when the meaning of faith has been explained the
answer has come, “Why, that would be just like Christian Science. I
cannot make a thing true just by believing it.” With Christian Science,
thinking a thing true makes it true, or rather, “thinking right”
removes the error which has resulted only because the thinking has been
wrong. But real faith rests always on facts. We believe, not in order
to make a fact true, but because it is true.
So startling is the parallel between what Christian Science offers and
what the Victorious Life in Christ guarantees, that a number who have
read articles in _The Sunday School Times_ have written to ask if the
Victorious Life teaching and Christian Science were not practically the
same. In answer to these inquiries a brief Open Letter was published a
few years ago pointing out the difference between Christian Science and
“the Victorious Life.” The Open Letter closed with this sentence: “They
differ from each other as do food and poison, noon-day and midnight,
omnipotence and impotence, life and death, Heaven and hell, Christ and
Satan.”