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24                                              HAS MAN A SOUL? 

  	    The Scriptures inform us that "the soul that sinneth,
  	it shall die." Here soul means sense and organic life; and
 
   
No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy                                                 29


 1	this passage refers to the Jewish law, that a mortal should
  	be put to death for his own sin, but not for another's. 
 3	Not Soul, but mortal sense, sins and dies. Immortal man
  	has immortal Soul and a deathless sense of being. Mortal
  	man has but a false sense of Soul and body. He believes
 6	that Spirit, or Soul, exists in matter. This is pantheism,
  	and is not the Science of Soul. The mind-quacks have
  	so slight a knowledge of Soul that they believe material
 9	and sinning sense to be soul; and then they doctor this
  	soul as if it were not even a material sense. 
  	    In Dr. Gordon's sermon on The Ministry of Healing,
12	he said, "The forgiven soul in a sick body is not half a
  	man." Is this pantheistic statement sound theology, — 
  	that Soul is in matter, and the immortal part of man a sin-
15	ner? Is not this a disparagement of the person of man and
  	a denial of God's power? Better far that we impute such
  	doctrines to mortal opinion than to the divine Word. 
18	    To my sense, such a statement is a shocking reflection
  	on the divine power. A mortal pardoned by God is not
  	sick, he is made whole. He in whom sin, disease, and
21	death are ...destroyed, is more than a fraction of himself. 
  	Such sermons, though clad in soft raiment, are spirit-
  	less waifs, literary driftwood on the ocean of thought;
24	while Truth walks triumphantly over the waves of sin,
  	sickness, and death. 
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