The First Church of Christ, Scientist
The Church of Christ, Scientist was established in the year 1879 in Boston, in Massachusetts, in United States of America, through Mary Baker Eddy. She is the author of the renowned book Science and Health with the Key to its Scriptures. The Christian Science teaches its followers that the usual “allness” of God doesn’t actually agree on the reality of sin, the sickness, the death, as well as the material world. There are various accounts of healing taking place through prayers, these episodes are quite common in the church of church and the adherents traditionally do not accept the effective of the medical treatment. The church of Christ is headquartered in the city of Boston, and has its branches all across the world. The current date membership of the church is estimated at be around 100,000 to 400,000.
The church of Christ was founded in the year 1987 by Mary Baker Eddy, following her personal healing, which took place in the year 1866. In addition to this she stated that this was a result of reading the Bible. Also, she explains this experience as “the falling apple” that showed her the way to the discovery of Christian Science. Moreover, she was quite convinced with the fact that: “The Holy Spirit had brought about the miracle, which after that had found her to be in the ideal scientific accord with the divine law. Also, the next three years in her life was simply spend making all the investigations related to the law of God, as it is stated in the Bible, especially by the words as well as the works of Jesus Christ. Moreover, the Bible along with Eddy’s textbook written on Christian healing, Science and Health and its Keys to its Scriptures, are mutually the key doctrinal sources in the church of Christ and have been thus ordained as the “dual impersonal pastor” of the church.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is known all across the world for its excellent publications, particularly The Christian Science Monitor is a popular everyday newspaper published, on an international level not only in print, but also on the Internet. The Skeptics believe that this is controversial because of the reliance of to adherents on healing all through the prayers as well as their rejection of the medicinal treatments. Many times there have been the periodic tensions with the mainstream Christians as well as the fundamentalist Christians, who believe that the religion is just aligned with the Gnosticism otherwise is a cult.
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