Did They Really Say That?!?

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“The belief that material bodies return to dust, hereafter to rise up as spiritual bodies with material sensations and desires, is incorrect.”

Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p.73

“...for dust you are and to dust you will return.”  Genesis 3:19

“Suddenly Jesus met them. ‘Greetings,’ he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him.”  Matthew 28:9

“When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them.”  Luke 24:30

“He said to them, ‘Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?  Look at my hands and my feet.  It is I myself!  Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see I have.’”  Luke 24:38,38

“They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate it in their presence.”  Luke 24:42,43

“On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them...” John 20:19

“Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put your finger here; see my hands.  Reach out your hand and put it into my side.”  John 20:27

“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorified body.”  Philippians 3:20-21

The Bible says that we will return to dust, and practical experience shows that all who die turn to dust in the grave.

Christ had a spiritual body after His resurrection, and yet he could touch things and be touched, appear materially in a locked room, and eat food.  And he ascended into heaven.

The Bible continually states that there will be a resurrection of all the dead, some to eternal life and others to eternal damnation.  Paul said that Christ will transform our bodies to be like His glorified body.

So, according to Scripture, the belief that our bodies will turn to dust and then resurrect as spiritual bodies with full sensations, is a foundational truth.  That means Mary Baker Eddy has once again been proven to be a false teacher.