Tenets of Christian Science
These are our guiding principles that direct and define every action taken by a member of the Christian Science Church.
First Tenet
As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 496:31–4
Second Tenet
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.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:5
Third Tenet
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.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:9
Fourth Tenet
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.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:13
Fifth Tenet
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.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:20
Sixth Tenet
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.
Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 497:24