Bible Study from May 14th, 2022

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“Thus we see, in both the first and last books of the Bible, – in Genesis and in the Apocalypse, – that sin is to be Christianly and scientifically reduced to its native nothingness. “Love one another” (1 John, iii 23), is the most simple and profound counsel of the inspired writer. In Science we are children of God; but whatever is of material sense, or mortal, belongs not to His children, for materiality is the inverted image of spirituality.

“Love fulfils, the law of Christian Science, … “

From Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 572: 3-11

Topic: Love fulfills the law (Romans 13:10)

Note: This season, the Bible study of the book of Revelation will be a continuous study. What is not covered in one Bible study will be in the next.

Moderator: Thomas from NY

King James Bible: Bible.PlainfieldCS.com

Science and Health: Chapter 16 “Apocalypse” by Mary Baker Eddy

Revelation of Saint John An Open Book: by Irving Tomlinson

Download or read Study Notes on Revelation here: Compiled by Thomas

Questions:

  1. Discuss the Blessing (Rev 20: 6): Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

  2. What is the lesson of the letter to the church of Sardis? (Rev 3:1-6)(Tomlinson, pages 135-136)
  3. What is the lesson of the letter to the church of Philadelphia? (Rev 3:7-13)(Tomlinson, pages 135-136)
  4. What is the lesson of the letter to the church of Laodicea? (Rev 3:14-22)(Tomlinson, pages 136-137)
  5. What is the lesson of Vision One? (Rev 4-5:10)(Tomlinson, pages 139-149)
  6. What is the lesson of Vision Two? (Rev 5:11-8:1)(Tomlinson, pages 150-166)

Notes from the Discussion

One morning Mrs. Eddy was examining us in her study, putting various questions to us. Finally she said, “Dear ones, you have answered well. Now that you have been so patient with Mother, what can she do for you?” We were all surprised at the question, but Mr. Strang, I believe it was, spoke up finally, “Mother, will you prophesy for us?” Her face clouded for just an instant, and then she said, “To perform the demonstration of prophecy always includes a temptation of animal magnetism. Now I have always found this rule of help: When you are about to prophesy, always handle animal magnetism and all need for prophecy will be gone. Why? Because faith in God will have taken its place!”

— from Collectanea, the “Addenda” by Mary Baker Eddy, page 69



Article — Taking Offense by Mary Baker Eddy



Question: How much Christian Science do you know? The approved answer: Only what I can demonstrate.

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, the “Blue Book,” by Mary Baker Eddy, page 103



Mrs. Eddy asked one how his branch church was coming along and he replied that everything was running smoothly. She said, “That’s too bad. If you are making progress, things would not be so harmonious.”

— from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, the “Blue Book,” by Mary Baker Eddy, page 267



II. Repaid Pages – The Interpretation of Revelation – Revelation 20

Revelation 20 — “The second death” (from a student’s notes).

Verses 1 and 2. Science and Health is the angel sent down from heaven. M.A.M. is the bottomless pit, and Science and Health gives us the key to it. It unlocks the mystery of ages, and its declarations of Truth are the chain which binds that old serpent, the devil, for a thousand years — that is, it reduces sin, sickness, and death to a “unit of nothingness.”

Verse 3. Unity of Good is the seal that was put upon the devil and Satan, for its teachings make it impossible for him to longer deceive the nations.

Verses 4-6. They who have been taught of Science and Health, the heavenly messenger, are they who sit upon thrones and have judgment given unto them, for they declare the Science of being over all error, and their judgment is the judgment of God. Then the good that is the reflection of God, is separated from the good that is only a false belief or the error which has upon it the mark of the beast. Then the true reflection of God, good, reigns with those who sit upon the thrones overcoming the unit of error. They who are thus taught, reign with the Christ, whose second appearance “is the first resurrection.”

from Essays and Other Footprints (the “Red Book”), Compiled by Richard F. Oakes



Whenever we are off our watch, we lose ground, and therefore must return to our watchfulness against sin, and Satan, and whatever is destructive to the life and power of godliness.

— From Matthew Henry Bible commentary on Revelation 3



At the time of the eight o’clock Watch Mrs. Eddy went out on the upper side porch. I always gained the impression that this hour was consecrated to working for the whole world and that she never permitted anything less to come under the searchlight of her scientific consciousness during this time. These universal outpourings nearly always lifted and sweetened her thought.

— from Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps by Gilbert Carpenter, Chapter 60


Book “Chapter Twenty-one” in Mary Baker Eddy, Her Spiritual Footsteps, by Gilbert Carpenter



The letter of Science plentifully reaches humanity to-day, but its spirit comes only in small degrees. The vital part, the heart and soul of Christian Science, is Love. Without this, the letter is but the dead body of Science, — pulseless, cold, inanimate.

— from Science and Health, 1910, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 113



Article — from Clear and Correct Teachingby Herbert W. Eustace, C. S. B.



Wednesday Service Readings — “Christian Science, the Universal, Ultimate Science” by Gary from NJ



Book from Unity of Good by Mary Baker Eddy



Article — “Sunday Services on July Fourth”, by Mary Baker Eddy, page 176