 Posted Tuesday, December 24, 2002 1:04 PM
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Dear C,
Congratulations on your baptism!! I am celebrating by own baptism of 5 years this Christmas week. This time of year is SO much more meaningful now that I truely know Jesus and His love and sacrifice for us. May you all have a blessed Christmas.
In His name,
Susan
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Posted Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:09 PM
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Dear C. What wonderful news. I praise God for what He is doing in your life. I pray that this Christmas season will be especially meaningful to you know that you have come to know the Savior.
Charles.
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Posted Saturday, June 07, 2003 5:35 PM
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Renee! Your forgot "guard me while I sleep." You know, "Father, Mother, God loving me, guard me while I sleep, guide my little feet up to thee." Didn't want you to be misquoted.
I attended a Sufi group a few years ago with a friend and at the end of the meeting 'circle' everyone was asked to recite a prayer. I gave them the Scientific Statement of Being and they thought it was terrific. Isn't that a kick??
Nyoka, the Jungle Girl
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Posted Saturday, June 14, 2003 7:07 PM
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<< The greatest disgust I have for CS is that it makes people feel guilty if they do not receive healing. They have not prayed enough or believed enough so they are at fault. I wonder if there is a lot of mental illness in CS. My 81 year old mother, a 30 year + CS Practioner, is a basket case because she has supressed all negitive feelings and thoughts. She is seathing beneath a thin wall that explodes out easily when she is stressed and then she feels guilty and beats herself up for letting it out. It took me years to allow myself to have negative thoughts or feelings. I no longer suffer from depression and have learned to allow myself to be rightously angry and not to suppress it. CS has kept my mom mentally unhealthy because of this. Is it Mental Malpractice to say what is true? >>
Heavy stuff! My mother died at age 37 of cancer, "treated" by CS (!) so I don't have adult memories of her, but thinking back to my childhood, she certainly did punctuate her incessant cheerfulness as God's Perfect Child with sudden, hideous rages. I suppose she was seething underneath too. But I don't recall her beating herself up about it afterwards... my sense is that to her, it was like an accident... it was Mortal Mind so it never really happened. A few seconds later, it was all gone and no reference was ever made to it. No apologies, no regrets. It is so difficult for a Christian Scientist to repent if they can practice self-deception thoroughly enough to immediately forget all their sins. I really struggle with that myself and I have been a Christian for my entire adult life.
renee said:
<< My grandmother, trying to comfort her said, "Rely on God, He only knows what is good in life. He knows nothing of this." I remember her giving me a look of astonishment, saying, "What good is it to rely on God if He's not even big enough to know what's happening to me?" >>
That's exactly why I needed to put the "god" of Christian Science behind me! He knew nothing about my life and nothing about the misery and suffering of so many people. He just sat in some heaven and ignored us all! I could get pretty mad with an ignorant god like that.
As for the memory work, you know after 30 years I have mostly forgotten the Scientific Statement of Being but it could come back if I thought about it for any length of time. Scary! The hymns, I very occasionally sing to my teenage kids for their amusement or just to tease them. A lot of MBE's poetry is even more senseless than her prose and they think it is so weird it's funny. But I'd like them to have some idea of what CS is like so they can know (1) why their mom is so disturbed and has a lot of dead relatives and one live but insane one who calls at 3 am to download her paranoid fantasies into our life (2) to keep away from new age religions!
Catherine
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Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 12:06 AM
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this r   eligion cost me everything as a person. if your not raised up in this religion you have know idea. i was and i am disfigured from it but i do know the truthnow and i have no words for what i went through. if you feel me let me know. only certain people will know what i am saying.
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Posted Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:10 AM
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| I was born and raised into CS and can tell the horror stories of broken bones going unset, etc. and being sent to my room with my Bible and S&H to heal myself. Much of my feelings of inferiority came from not being able to heal myself. I watched my mother and sister die in excruciating pain, using just a practitioner for their treatment. At some point in my early adulthood, I withdrew from the church and the CS practice, but it would not let go easily. It was many years before I was free psychologically to attend a church of my choice and get medical care without guilt. It was especially difficult to finally take Jesus as my Lord and Savior, but I am now blessed with Him in my daily life. I still have friends and family members in the CS faith; it works for them but it made me NUTS!
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Posted Friday, April 01, 2011 4:23 AM
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It was many years before I was free psychologically to attend a church of my choice and get medical care without guilt. It was especially difficult to finally take Jesus as my Lord and Savior, but I am now blessed with Him in my daily life.
I'm so glad you have been able to take these steps. I understand both the struggle of breaking free from CS and the freedom of finding the biblical Jesus. I praise God for the work He has done in your life!
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Posted Saturday, December 31, 2011 9:11 AM
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| As a life-long Christian Scientist who has experienced and witnessed many wonderful healings, including those of incurable diseases I just wanted to say to all those that have posted above that God loves you. God does not deal in names, labels etc and we don't need to get bogged down with them either. His love is infinite and he loves us all equally.
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Posted Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:38 AM
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Guest (12/31/2011)
First, I am not going to try to change your mind; for now, we will just have to agree to disagree on the merits of CS. I did want to point out that most of the people who posted the comments you apparently took issue with, actually wrote those comments about 9 years ago. You are a little late to the party.
As a former Christian Scientist who has experienced and witnessed many horribly failed attempts to heal, including those with incurable diseases, I just wanted to say to you that our most merciful God still loves you. I pray that you will accept Jesus as your personal savior instead of trusting your salvation to the words of Mary Baker Eddy.
Despite what I have seen and learned about CS, I do still believe in the power of prayer, and I know that God heals. But, CS is a human invention, not a Divine inspiration. And the proof is in the pudding. I know you think that CS has worked for you, but maybe something else is at work here. Why does CS work for you, but not everybody else --including Mrs Eddy herself, who died of pneumonia in the end? I could list any number of the elite in CS who have needlessly suffered and/or died before they should have --all the while desperately clinging to CS platitudes and refusing all material remedies. Indeed, "the time for thinkers has come."
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Posted Saturday, December 31, 2011 3:34 PM
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Mere Kat,
Indeed, the time for thinkers has come.
For so many years I've engaged in discussions with Christian Scientists who claim a scientific approach to Christianity. Yet, they all express their feelings rather than present any scientific approach based on actual Biblical support or study.
It would so refreshing to encounter one who could deal with the Bible in context without reversion to Mary Baker Eddy's misrepresentations and notions.
The day will come when I will be called to account for my sins. I am certain that on that day that I will discover vast holes in my understanding of God. I will, however, continue to pursue that understanding as a thinker studying His word rather than merely pursuing my feelings.
Do Go Be Man
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