“1.  Man is not matter; he has not brains, blood, or bones.

“2.  Man is incapable of sin.

“3.  Man is incapable of sickness.

“4.  Man is incapable of death.

“5.  Sin, sickness, and death are errors.

“6.  God is Mind, Principle.

“7.  Mind is God.

“8.  Sickness is a dream.

“9.  Sickness, sin, and death are ‘mortal dreams.’

“10.  ‘There is no disease’ (Science and Health, p. 421).

“11.  ‘Death is the illusion’ (Science and Health, p. 428).

“Now, over and against these statements of Christian Science, let us place the immutable Word of God.

“1.  Man is not matter; he is not brains, blood, or bones.

“The very first word in inspiration contradicts this principle in Christian Science.  ’In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’ (Gen. 1:1).  The creation of man contradicts Christian Science.  Listen—­’And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.’ (Gen. 2:7).

“So there is such a thing as man composed of matter such as body, and blood, and bones.

“2.  Man is incapable of sin.

“Let us see what the Bible says of this proposition,” continued Robert.

“‘For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God’ (Rom. 3:23).

“‘Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures’ (1 Cor. 15:3).

“‘He shall save his people from their sins’ (Matt. 1:21).

“3.  Man is incapable of sickness.

“‘Is any sick among you’ what shall he do?” asked Robert, quoting Jas. 5:14, 15.  “Let him deny that he is sick, and claim that he is incapable of being sick?  No.  ’Let him call for the elders ... and the prayer of faith shall save the sick.’

“David said of the Lord, ‘Who healeth all thy diseases’ (Psa. 103:3).

“4.  Man is incapable of death.

“It seems that no scripture is needed to refute this falsehood.  Men of past ages are dead.  Mrs. Eddy herself will die, all Christian Scientists die, for ’it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.’”

“My, the Bible is hard on Christian Science doctrine, isn’t it,” said Kate Newby.  “I did not think to read and compare Mrs. Eddy’s statements with the Bible.”

“Indeed it is,” said Robert Davis.  “The Bible states facts as they are.  Man did sin, and all men have sinned.  The plan of salvation, in all its vast provisions for men, came about because of man’s need, because of man’s fall.  Man has sinned.  Oh, it is all too plain to deny.  The bruised and wounded hearts of mothers and wives, the bowed heads of grief-stricken fathers over the sins of their loved ones, prove all too painfully that sin is real.”

“I know it is, too,” said Jake Newby.  “My heart yearns for deliverance from sin right now.  Kate, turn from this deception.  You see it is not right.  It denies facts.”