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An Introduction to Christian
Science
DEVIL
References
for Study
The following passages are from the Christian
Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
Luke
11:14-20
And [Jesus] was casting out a devil,
and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the
devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people
wondered. But some of them said, He casteth out
devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from
heaven. But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto
them, Every kingdom divided against itself is
brought to desolation; and a house divided against
a house falleth. If Satan also be divided against
himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye
say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub. And
if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your
sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your
judges. But if I with the finger of God cast out
devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon
you.
Ephesians
6:11-13
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you
the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to
stand.
James
4:7 Resist
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Science
and Health, p. 584:17
DEVIL. Evil; a lie; error; neither corporeality
nor mind; the opposite of Truth; a belief in sin,
sickness, and death; animal magnetism or hypnotism;
the lust of the flesh, which saith: "I am life and
intelligence in matter. There is more than one
mind, for I am mind, — a wicked mind,
self-made or created by a tribal god and put into
the opposite of mind, termed matter, thence to
reproduce a mortal universe, including man, not
after the image and likeness of Spirit, but after
its own image."
Science
and Health, p. 580:28
ADVERSARY. An adversary is one who opposes,
denies, disputes, not one who constructs and
sustains reality and Truth. Jesus said of the
devil, "He was a murderer from the beginning, . . .
he is a liar and the father of it." This view of
Satan is confirmed by the name often conferred upon
him in Scripture, the "adversary."
Science
and Health, p. 351:16
We cannot bring out the practical proof of
Christianity, which Jesus required, while error
seems as potent and real to us as Truth, and while
we make a personal devil and an anthropomorphic God
our starting-points, — especially if we
consider Satan as a being coequal in power with
Deity, if not superior to Him. Because such
starting-points are neither spiritual nor
scientific, they cannot work out the Spirit-rule of
Christian healing, which proves the nothingness of
error, discord, by demonstrating the
all-inclusiveness of harmonious Truth.
Science
and Health, p. 554:20
Jesus defined this opposite of God and His
creation better than we can, when he said, "He is a
liar, and the father of it." Jesus also said, "Have
not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
devil?" This he said of Judas, one of Adam's race.
Jesus never intimated that God made a devil, but he
did say, "Ye are of your father, the devil." All
these sayings were to show that mind in matter is
the author of itself, and is simply a falsity and
illusion.
Science
and Health, p. 567:14-26
Revelation
xii. 9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which
deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the
earth, and his angels were cast out with
him.
That
false claim — that ancient belief, that old
serpent whose name is devil (evil), claiming that
there is intelligence in matter either to benefit
or to injure men — is pure delusion, the red
dragon; and it is cast out by Christ, Truth, the
spiritual idea, and so proved to be powerless. The
words "cast unto the earth" show the dragon to be
nothingness, dust to dust; and therefore, in his
pretence of being a talker, he must be a lie from
the beginning.
Science
and Health, p. 469:13-17 Mind
Mind is God. The exterminator of error is the
great truth that God, good, is the only
Mind, and that the supposititious opposite of
infinite Mind — called devil or evil
— is not Mind, is not Truth, but error,
without intelligence or reality.
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