The Bible is at the heart of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, took to the Bible instinctively as a child and studied it intensively as an adult. Through this study she discovered the healing power of God and experienced it firsthand. This inspired her to delve even deeper into the Scriptures, finding their spiritual meaning, which ultimately led to her writing the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Together the Bible and Science and Health are the pastor of the Christian Science Church, from which a weekly Bible Lesson is read. Learn more about the Bible Lesson
The following Bible passages introduce this week's Bible Lesson. The full Lesson is comprised of citations from the Bible and correlative passages from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy.
From this week's Christian Science Quarterly Bible Lesson:
Probation After Death
April 22–28, 2019
He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from death.
Responsive Reading | Proverbs 12:28; Psalms 37:5–7 (to :), 23, 24, 29, 31; 27:11, 13, 14
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him:
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Christian Science Quarterly™ Bible Lessons — Online Edition, Vol. 130, No. 17
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