 Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 4:48 PM
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| I am new to this forum. I have a pretty good knowledge of different forms of Christianity but don't know alot about christian scientists. I hope to learn a little here through the discussion.
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Posted Monday, February 12, 2007 6:46 PM
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Posted Tuesday, February 13, 2007 9:44 PM
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Welcome, Thessalonian!
Not having a background in C.S., I'm curious as to what piques your interest. Not that you have to tell us or anything. . .
Would you like a "critique" of Christian Science written by the Reverend Wiggin, who was a literary, theological and legal (though he wasn't a lawyer) advisor to Mary Baker Eddy? Let me know, and I can send it to you in a private e-mail.
Good to have you on board,
Birdstrike
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Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:17 PM
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| I enjoy learning about different denominations. It also helps me to evangelize them toward the fullness of the truth in the Catholic faith, by understanding something of what they believe beforehand.
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Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:18 PM
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| By the way, I would be glat to critique it.
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Posted Friday, February 16, 2007 3:59 AM
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It's too bad we agree, Thess - I'd love to have someone try to evangelize me so that I could debate them! I seem to need that, and having spent much of my decieved, I want the truth at all costs.
You are far more ambitious than I am; I will settle for simply bringing souls to Jesus Christ, and getting them out of the nonsense of Christian Science. Linda and Do Go Be Man have been most gracious to allow Romanists like us, and even practicing Christian Scientists, to participate here provided that they act in a Christlike manner.
Coming from a Protestant tradition as I have, one certainly does not wake up in the morning and say: "Gee, I think I'd like to become a Catholic", I can assure you! But I must confess, after a veritable world-tour of religions and belief systems, I am blown away by what I've discovered in the Catholic faith - the Church Fathers, the Saints, 2,000 years of Magisterial teaching, etc. To borrow the words of one convert in Lynn Nordhagen's book of conversion stories, with regard to my Christian spiritual development, I feel ". . . like I got off a bicycle and got onto a rocket ship".
Good luck with your study of Christian Science. You should probably go to a Sunday service sometime, or perhaps a Wednesday night "I'm so grateful to Christian Science. . . " meeting sometime; that'll be interesting for you! Then get back to us and tell us what you think. . .
Birdstrike
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