The following quotes are from Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures ( S&H )
- “Father-Mother is the name for Deity, which indicates His tender relationship to His spiritual creation” (S&H 332:4-5.).
- “The word Christ is not properly a synonym for Jesus, though it is commonly so used” (S&H 333:3-4).
- “Mind is the I AM, or infinity. Mind never enters the finite. . .but infinite Mind can never be in man . . .a portion of God could not enter man” (S&H 336:1-2, 13,19-20).
- “. . . and recognize that Jesus Christ is not God, as Jesus himself declared, but is the Son of God” (S&H 361:11-13).
- Speaking of Gen. 2:7, “Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being,” Eddy says, “Is this addition to His creation real or unreal? Is it the truth, or is it a lie concerning man and God? It must be a lie, for God presently curses the ground . . . “(S&H 524:13-27).
- In describing what the Devil is, it says, “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.” (S&H 584:17-25).
- “If there had never existed such a person as the Galilean Prophet, it would make no difference to me.” (The First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany, pp. 318, 319).