This passage in Romans 8 stood out to me:
35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
37: Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Not just conquerors, but MORE THAN conquerors! Which means to me, we reap the added benefit of spiritual progress.
Then I looked up “conquer” in Science and Health and Mrs. Eddy uses this word several times, here are just a few:
Pg. 324:13 “Be watchful, sober, and vigilant. The way is straight and narrow, which leads to the understanding that God is the only Life. It is a warfare with the flesh, in which we must conquer sin, sickness, and death, either here or hereafter, — certainly before we can reach the goal of Spirit, or life in God.
Pg. 339:31 “You conquer error by denying its verity.”
Pg. 317: “The understanding of his spiritual individuality makes man more real, more formidable in truth, and enables him to conquer sin, disease, and death.”
Pg. 419: “To succeed in healing, you must conquer your own fears as well as those of your patients, and rise into higher and holier consciousness.
Pg. 425: “Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquered.”
To conquer one must fight to subdue the enemy to gain the victory! Christian Science is the only method that gives us the tools, the Science, to fight and conquer error of every sort. Wouldn’t old theology have people accept tribulations as God’s will, or something to be suffered through until God decides to release us from it, or have people feeling helpless in the face of seemingly unconquerable trials?
Onward Christian soldiers, we cannot make peace with, learn to live with, or tolerate anything unlike God, good!
Interestingly, Mrs. Eddy only uses the word tolerate once in S&H:
“Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion.”