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50101 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1174.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Modern Spiritualism are identical with those of ancient witchcraft and sorcery has been forthrightly attested by Spiritualist J. J. Morse in his Practical …

50102 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1175.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… Modern Spiritualism reproduce all the essential principles of the Magic, Witchcraft, and Sorcery of the past? The same powers are involved, ... the same intelligences …

50103 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1176 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

CHAPTER FIFTY-SEVEN: Fundamental Fallacies of Spiritualism’s Fellow Travelers

50104 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1176.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Spiritualism has certain conspicuous fellow travelers. Because of two of its openly declared and constantly repeated positions, Christian Science must …

50105 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1178 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

3. BIBLE AUTHORITATIVE ONLY WITH “SPIRITUAL” INTERPRETATION

50106 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1178.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… its “spiritual meaning,” and with “metaphysical interpretation,” because otherwise it abounds with “metaphors” and “allegory,” as well as “myth” and “fable” that confuse …

50107 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1178.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… .” The “spiritual sense,” supplied by Christian Science, is consequently said to be essential to right understanding. In fact, this “spiritual sense,” or “metaphysical …

50108 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1180.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

The Glossary in chapter seventeen of Science and Health presents a “substitution of the spiritual for the material” in definitions, “the metaphysical interpretation of Bible terms.” Here are striking samples:17) Ibid., p. 579.

50109 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1180.9 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“DEATH. An illusion, the lie of life in matter .... Any material evidence of death is false, for it contradicts the spiritual facts of being.” 21) Ibid., p. 584.

50110 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1180.12 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“RESURRECTION. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding.” 24) Ibid., p. 593.

50111 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1180.14 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… by spiritualizing away the obvious import. Yet Mrs. Eddy claims hers to be the only qualified interpretation. Thus Christian Science proclaims itself the …

50112 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1182.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation.” 38) Ibid ., “Glossy,” p. 332. (Italics supplied.)

50113 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1182.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the “spiritual sense” to read, “Our FatherMother God, all harmonious,” et cetera. Further, her concept of the “triune” God, the “triply divine Principle” is stated thus …

50114 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1182.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the Spiritual idea of sonship; divine Science [Christian Science] or the Holy Comforter. These three express in divine Science the threefold, essential nature …

50115 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1183.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“The Christ is incorporeal, spiritual,” whereas, “the corporeal man Jesus was human.” 44) IN., p 332. (Italics supplied.)

50116 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1183.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“The spiritual Christ was infallible; Jesus, as material manhood, was not Christ.” 45) Eddy, Miscellaneous Writings,? 84. (Italics supplied.)

50117 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1183.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… , the spiritual and the material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in the flesh, continued until the Master’s ascension, when the human …

50118 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1183 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

11. MARY’S CONCEPTION OF JESUS ONLY “SPIRITUAL.”

50119 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1183.8 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

“Mary’s conception of him (Jesus) was spiritual.” 49) Eddy, Science and Health, p. &. (Italics supplied.)

50120 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 1184.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… as “spiritual interpretation according to the teachings of Christian Science,” or “spiritual understanding,” for “Creation” is first defined as the “unfolding …