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 infinite 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 punished so long as the belief lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus' atonement as the evidence 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 eternal Life,
even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness 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.
Mary Baker Eddy