Tenets of Christian Science

                           From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary

                        Baker Eddy, at pages 496 and 497:

                        Question. — Have Christian Scientists any religious creed?

                    Answer. — They have not, if by that term is meant

                    doctrinal beliefs. The following is a brief exposition of

                    the important points, or religious tenets, of Christian

                    Science: —

                    1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word

                    of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.

                    2. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and in-

                    finite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the

                    Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's

                    image and likeness.

                    3. We acknowledge God's forgiveness of sin in the

                    destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that

                    casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is pun-

                    ished so long as the belief lasts.

                    4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evi-

                    dence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man's unity

                    with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and

                    we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ,

                    through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the

                    Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming

                    sin and death.

                    5. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and

                    his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eter-

                    nal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the noth-

                    ingness of matter.

                    6. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for

                    that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to

                    do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and

                            to be merciful, just, and pure.