Our Beliefs

The essential teachings of Christian Science are based on the all-power and ever-presence of an all-good God, whom we also refer to as Love. Our concept of God is perhaps a little different than taught in other communities. Our God is not a super human, judging right and wrong. We refer to God as Principle, which indicates a universal governing power that is always active. We also refer to God as Spirit, and believe that Spirit’s, creation is spiritual rather than material. 

It’s a radical idea: we can depend on the presence of God’s goodness in our lives, and the members of this branch church do this, and have experienced the blessings that come when we base our decisions on just such radical ideas. We have proven in the laboratory of our daily lives that a greater understanding of God and who we are as God’s image can bring peace and healing to all sorts of life’s challenges. This includes harmonizing family and community relationships, healing physical conditions of all sorts, and improving finances or employment difficulties. 

 The Christian Science church, which has worldwide headquarters in Boston, was instituted to “reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” So we are very much Bible-based in our beliefs. We believe that we are following the healing method demonstrated by Jesus Christ. 

Mary Baker Eddy was a remarkable woman who founded the Christian Science church during the nineteenth century. Find out more about Mary Baker Eddy here.

To learn more about the teachings of Christian Science:

• visit ChristianScience.com

• visit our Kitchener branch church or our  Reading Room

• read our textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. 

While we do not have a formal religious creed, you may find it useful to see our tenets, or points that Christian Scientists agree upon. 

Tenets:

1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.

Every Sunday church service includes the reading of our Scientific Statement of Being, which reads,