Topic: Working out the problem of being
The Bible:
(1) Gen 1:31 to first .
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
(2) Gen 2:6
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
(3) I John 5:18-20
18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
19 And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
(4) Ps 34:19
19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
(5) Ps 56:3,4
3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.
(6) Isa 30:20,21
20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
(7) Job 9:1
1 Then Job answered and said,
(8) Job 10:2,3
2 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
(9) Job 10:15
15 If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
(10) Job 32:2
2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
(11) Job 33:12-17,23-25,29,30
12 Behold, in this thou art not just: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
13 Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.
14 For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.
15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,
17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
23 If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
24 Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth:
29 Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
(12) Job 36:22
22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?
(13) Job 37:14
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
(14) Job 37:23
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
(15) Job 38:1-7
1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
(16) Job 42:1-3
1 Then Job answered the Lord, and said,
2 I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
3 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
(17) Job 42:5
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
(18) Job 42:10
10 And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
(19) John 8:31,32
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
(20) II Cor 12:6-10
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
(21) Phil 2:12,13
12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
(22) I Pet 5:10 the
10 the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy:
(1) 262:19-23
Job's thought, when the supposed pain and The true
pleasure of matter cease to predominate. They sense
21 will then drop the false estimate of life and happiness, of
joy and sorrow, and attain the bliss of loving unselfishly,
working patiently, and conquering all that is unlike God.
(2) 460:3-5
3 Ontology is defined as "the science of the necessary
constituents and relations of all beings," and it under-
lies all metaphysical practice. Ontology
defined
(3) 556:25
Ontology receives less attention than physiology. Why?
Because mortal mind must waken to spiritual Ontology
27 life before it cares to solve the problem of versus
being, hence the author's experience; but when physiology
that awakening comes, existence will be on a new stand-
30 point.
(4) 306:32-2
The parent of all human discord was the Adam-dream,
1 the deep sleep, in which originated the delusion that life
and intelligence proceeded from and passed into matter.
(5) 72:26-28
A sinning, earthly mortal is
27 not the reality of Life nor the medium through which
truth passes to earth.
(6) 552:16-19
Emergence
Mortals must emerge from of mortals
this notion of material life as all-in-all. They must peck
18 open their shells with Christian Science, and look outward
and upward.
(7) 347:12-14
12 Critics should consider that the so-called mortal man
is not the reality of man. Then they would behold the
signs of Christ's coming. Essential
element of
Christianity
(8) 52:19
The "man of sorrows" best understood the nothing-
ness of material life and intelligence and the mighty ac-
21 tuality of all-inclusive God, good. These were Saviour's
the two cardinal points of Mind-healing, or prediction
Christian Science, which armed him with Love. The high-
24 est earthly representative of God, speaking of human
ability to reflect divine power, prophetically said to his
disciples, speaking not for their day only but for all time:
27 "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do
also;" and "These signs shall follow them that believe."
(9) 85:24-30
24 Jesus knew the
generation to be wicked and adulterous, seek- Hypocrisy
ing the material more than the spiritual. His condemned
27 thrusts at materialism were sharp, but needed. He never
spared hypocrisy the sternest condemnation. He said:
"These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
30 undone."
(10) 292:27-31
27 This carnal material mentality, misnamed mind, is
mortal. Therefore man would be annihilated, were it
not for the spiritual real man's indissoluble Immortal
30 connection with his God, which Jesus brought man
to light.
(11) 475:13
Man is idea, the image, of
Love; he is not physique. He is the compound idea of
15 God, including all right ideas; the generic term for
all that reflects God's image and likeness; the conscious
identity of being as found in Science, in which man is
18 the reflection of God, or Mind, and therefore is eternal;
that which has no separate mind from God; that which
has not a single quality underived from Deity; that which
21 possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his
own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.
(12) 548:12
The clouds
12 Earth has little light or joy for mortals before dissolving
Life is spiritually learned. Every agony of mortal error
helps error to destroy error, and so aids the apprehension
15 of immortal Truth. This is the new birth going on
hourly, by which men may entertain angels, the true
ideas of God, the spiritual sense of being.
(13) 421:18 (to 2nd .)
18 There is no disease.
(14) 184:21-23
21 Mortal mind alone suffers, — not because a law
of matter has been transgressed, but because a law of this
so-called mind has been disobeyed.
(15) 411:20
The procuring cause and foundation of all sickness is
21 fear, ignorance, or sin. Disease is always induced by a
false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed. Fear as the
Disease is an image of thought externalized. foundation
24 The mental state is called a material state. Whatever
is cherished in mortal mind as the physical condition is
imaged forth on the body.
(16) 453:6-8
6 Right and wrong, truth and error, will be at strife in
the minds of students, until victory rests on the side of
invincible truth. Winning
the field
(17) 242:15
15 Self-love is more opaque than a solid body. In pa-
tient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dis-
solve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant
18 of error, — self-will, self-justification, and self-love, —
which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin
and death.
(18) 295:16
The manifestation of God through mortals is as light
passing through the window-pane. The light and the
18 glass never mingle, but as matter, the glass Goodness
is less opaque than the walls. The mortal transparent
mind through which Truth appears most vividly is that
21 one which has lost much materiality — much error — in
order to become a better transparency for Truth. Then,
like a cloud melting into thin vapor, it no longer hides
24 the sun.
(19) 329:32-2
Human resistance to divine Science weakens in pro-
1 portion as mortals give up error for Truth and the un-
derstanding of being supersedes mere belief.
(20) 28:29
The trials encountered by prophet, disciple, and apostle,
30 "of whom the world was not worthy," await, in some
form, every pioneer of truth.
(21) 536:26
Through toil, struggle, and sor- True
27 row, what do mortals attain? They give up attainment
their belief in perishable life and happiness; the mortal
and material return to dust, and the immortal is reached.
(22) 202:15
15 Outside of this Science all is mutable; but immortal
man, in accord with the divine Principle of his being,
God, neither sins, suffers, nor dies. The days Harmonious
18 of our pilgrimage will multiply instead of di- life-work
minish, when God's kingdom comes on earth; for the
true way leads to Life instead of to death, and earthly
21 experience discloses the finity of error and the infinite
capacities of Truth, in which God gives man dominion
over all the earth.
From the Christian Science Hymnal:
Hymns: 347, 7, 55
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