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 nearly all the statements of the Apostle's creed.

It denies the reality of the world, the handiwork of the Creator, by saying that "matter is the error of mortal mind," and therefore denies God as the Creator of the world as it is. It practically denies the doctrine of the Incarnation, by assuming that all bodily forms are the outcome of error, distorted mind, and so forth. It subverts the doctrine of the Trinity, as the Church has always held it; and substitutes for it a shadowy nothing. It says there will be no Judgment. It flouts the sanctity of the Church, refuses to acknowledge the Church's mission to the world, and would wish to destroy that institution. It opposes the belief in pardon and the forgiveness of sins and condemns the desire to receive such pardon; and says, moreover, that "the abiding consciousness of wrong-doing tends to destroy the ability to do right"; and, last of all, it will not accept credence in death and the resurrection.

In view of all these facts, what is there in Christian Science that is even remotely Christian?