Not Imputing Their Trespasses Unto Them

[spencel]

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. … To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.” II Corinthians 5

“Im​pute: To lay the responsibility or blame for (something); to credit or ascribe (something) to a person or a cause.” Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

“Forgiveness is forgetfulness of sin, disease and all error in others and in ourselves. No wrong is forgiven until it is forgotten. If this is not done, it works like remembering disease; it makes you a sinner; it grows chronic and incurable. If we do not do this, it does us more harm than our enemies.” from Divinity Course and General Collectanea, (the “Blue Book”), by Mary Baker Eddy, page 228

“Similarly, Judas was not the worst sinner the world produced in Jesus’ time; but he served as an awful example of what will happen to one who continues in Christian Science, and who does not meet the belief that he is not fundamentally sound. It was necessary for someone to go through the Judas experience, in order that the world might know the awful consequences of one remaining a member of the Christian Science church, without seeking to cast out the belief that he has some irremediable flaw in his mentality or character, some phase of materiality or inclination that he cannot cast out with God’s help.” from Precepts by Gilbert Carpenter

[spencel]

“Told about some friends calling on Mrs. Eddy one day, …Mrs. Eddy seemed to be busy, they started away; but she called to them to come to her, and then asked them if they knew what she was doing. They replied they didn’t, and then she said, “I am going back in my memory just as far as I can remember and denying all the error that ever seemed to happen to me.” It is poor use of memory to review error.” from 1937 by Bicknell Young, page 12

[Author]

Posts