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Faith without works is dead.

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Announcements › Forums › Adam and Fallen Man — May 9th, 2021 › Faith without works is dead.

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  • May 6, 2021 at 6:26 pm #12642
    spencel
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    “And the serpent said unto the woman, … And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.” Genesis 3

    This reminded me of something found in Addresses by Martha Wilcox, “At one time, I was under her (Mary Baker Eddy) personal instruction and was a mental worker for seven weeks. One evening she gave me a problem to work, and, of course, I had a great desire to prove the reality at hand; so I worked the greater part of the night. In the morning she called me to her and said: ‘Martha, why did you not do your work?’ I replied, ‘Mother, I did.’ She said: ‘No, you didn’t. You had a good talk with the devil. Why did you not know God’s allness?’ I said: ‘Mother, I tried.’ And her reply was, ‘Well, if Jesus had just tried and failed we would have no Science today.’ Then she had a card hung on the inside of my room on which was printed in large letters, ‘Faith without works is dead.’ I looked at that for two weeks!”(page 16-17)

    From this Lesson is a perfect counter to serpent thoughts:
    “Truth has but one reply to all error, — to sin, sickness, and death: ‘Dust [nothingness] thou art, and unto dust [nothingness] shalt thou return.'” From Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy, page 545 : 27-5

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