0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents

Mary Baker Eddy

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Book
10
Other Writings
39
Miscellaneous Writings
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1
Questions and Answers
3
If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, "My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"
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This chapter #3 is comprised of 90 questions and answers.
  	    If Christ was God, why did Jesus cry out, "My God,
  	why hast Thou forsaken me?" 

24	    Even as the struggling heart, reaching toward a higher
  	goal, appeals to its hope and faith, Why failest thou
  	me? Jesus as the son of man was human:  Christ as
27	the Son of God was divine. This divinity was reaching
  	humanity through the crucifixion of the human, — that
  	momentous demonstration of God, in which Spirit proved
30	its supremacy over matter. Jesus assumed for mortals the
 
  Miscellaneous Writings --- Questions and Answers                      
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 1	weakness of flesh, that Spirit might be found "All-in-all." 
  	Hence, the human cry which voiced that struggle;
 3	thence, the way he made for mortals' escape. Our
  	Master bore the cross to show his power over death;
  	then relinquished his earth-task of teaching and dem-
 6	onstrating the nothingness of sickness, sin, and death,
  	and rose to his native estate, man's indestructible eternal
  	life in God.