What is Christian Science

Christian Science is a Bible-based religion based upon  the teachings of Christ Jesus. Those who  study  Christian  Science strive to  follow his example of perfect  love for God and man  in every  detail  of their lives.

Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the discoverer of Christian Science and founder  of the Christian  Science church,  was a deep student of the Bible throughout her life.  Even  as a little girl,  she turned to  God in prayer and these prayers brought healing to  her family and friends. In 1866,  she experienced a life-threatening injury. She was healed when she opened her  Bible to an account of one of Jesus’ healings and glimpsed the power of God to  heal. Inspired by  this healing,  she spent three years studying the Bible,  searching for the spiritual law behind all  true healing. From  that  study  came her primary  work,  Science and Health with  Key  to  the Scriptures. 

Since the publication of her  book,  thousands have been  healed and regenerated through consecrated study  of the Bible and  Science and Health with  Key  to  the Scriptures. These two  books are the dual  and impersonal  Pastor of the Christian  Science church,  described in  the Church  Manual  as, “a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” (Church Manual  17:8-13)

Every  healing is a living proof of God’s impartial  and universal  love for all of His children,  and each one ripples out to help  and to  heal  all mankind. Mrs. Eddy  wrote, “To live so as to keep human consciousness in constant relation with the divine, the spiritual, and the eternal, is to individualize infinite power; and this is Christian Science.” (The First  Church  of Christ,  Scientist,  and Miscellany 160:5-8)