God is knowable and understandable
Everyone has the ability to know God—to have a direct relationship to God. God is not an anthropomorphic or a far-off being, but is Love itself. We all have an inherent ability to feel God’s love and presence in our lives. As we understand what is true about God, we experience how God’s very nature enables us to face and overcome challenges in our lives. Healing is the inevitable outcome of knowing God.
“Christian” because it’s based on the teachings of Christ Jesus
Christian Scientists take seriously Jesus’ instruction to every follower to heal as he did. This is possible through an understanding of God, Spirit, and of spiritual man made in God’s image and likeness. Just catching the slightest glimpse of what that means has practical healing effects. Ultimately, Christianity is more than a collection of beliefs. It's a life lived as a child of God.
“Science” because it’s based on spiritual laws of God that are provable
Christian Science explains the spiritual laws of God that Christ Jesus relied on to heal sickness and sin. Mary Baker Eddy discovered these laws through her lifelong study of the Bible, consecrated prayer, and the healings she experienced. She named it “Science” because it is based on an understanding of God’s spiritual laws, which can be proven by anyone. Christian Science is a science because these spiritual laws are reliable, logical, and understandable.
Religious tenets of Christian Science
Christian Science has six tenets—or key points—that briefly summarize the teachings of Christian Science. They are rooted in the Bible, and are found in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy on pages 496-497.
As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.
We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts.
We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death.
We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.
And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.