Soul and Body

Soul and Body 11-21-2010 Sara Lincoln

Do you agree with the definition of soul in your Student dictionary? ____. Write down the part of the definition you like the best.___________________________________________.
What does your dictionary say about body? ________.
John sent out a great greeting to all: …be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. III John 1: 2.
What kind of health was he talking about? Is health physical or mental?_______________.
Soul (God) expresses itself in m____ (and you). ‘My soul’ is my God-sense of identity. What do I need to do to protect and nurture my spiritual identity and cause it to prosper, succeed? My soul, my mind, myself, needs to choose right actions, like what? ___________________.

In his letter to the church in Thessalonica, Paul gave seven instructions for prospering,
I Thess. 5: 16-22. Pick 3 and write just the command verb: _________________________. Are these instructions for the soul or the body? ___________.
The spiritual part of a person (student dictionary) is that person’s in____________, mind. Do soul and body together make identity? _____. Check out your answer in the chapter that is all questions and answers, Re__________, page 477:20. S______ is the substance, Life, and intelligence of man… . Christian Science helps mankind so much by showing us all how to prove that the material body is not the substance, Life, and intelligence of man…

There is a story and a book in the Bible called J______. Job was perfect and upright, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Job 1: 1.
Feared God means _____________________.
Eschewed evil means ___________________________.
Satan said seee could make Job curse God by covering his body with boils. Job asked, will {God} plead against me with his great power? ___, but he would put _______ in me. Job 23: 6. Job was confident: For {God} performeth the thing that is appointed for me (vs. 14). Job was humble and ready to learn what Mary Baker Eddy would later describe this way: This Soul-sense comes to the _______ ______ when the latter yields to the divine Mind. SH 85: 4. Job was ready to yield, to admit only that God is good and to stick with this truth!

While Job was learning to yield, three so-called friends came to comfort him. They were not able to comfort Job because they believed that Job was guilty of some sin and was being punished for it. Job ‘argued’ with them and tried to prove his in____________. Job knew he was not g______ of sin. Job’s main point was that he {God} is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will _____ _______. Job. 37: 23. Does Christian Science teach us to say similar words? _____. S______, like Mind, is one of the s________ for God. Mind is manifested as you and Soul is too. Soul is not a spiritual part of a person, but rather the substance and intelligence and manifestation - body - of a person. Life is the law of Soul… and Soul is never without its _________________. SH 427 2.

What happened to Job? Did Satan make him curse God? ____. Did he have boils for the rest of his life? ____. Job was willing to learn more about the om____________ of God. Job said, ‘I knew a little bit about you, God, but now I see you.’ Job. 42: 5 and SH 262: 17.
So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, vs.12. As the Psalmist said, No good thing will he withhold from them that walk __________. Ps. 84: 11.

Job needed to learn, be sure, that it was not the hand of Satan that had touched him. The hand of God hath touched me. Job 19: 21. Did the hand of God put boils on Job? ____. The hand (po_____) of God lifted Job’s t________ and understanding to a sp________ perspective. Does C_______ S_______ lift thought and understanding to a spiritual perspective? ______. How do you know? __________.

Was that the purpose of Christ Jesus too, to lift thought and understanding to a spiritual perspective? _____. When Christians and others read Science and Health, they will discover that Jesus did not teach that man is guilty. Jesus insisted on the in________ of man, like Job had done in the Old Testament. Jesus knew there was a belief called S________, but he cast that belief out of thought and healed people in m______ and b______. Christian Science words it this way: The beliefs of the hu______ m______ rob and enslave it, and then impute this result to another illusive personification, named S______. SH 187: 10. I’ve even heard people say, the devil made me do it. Is that an excuse or a reason for doing the wrong thing?___________________.

John 5: 2-14 tells about a man in Jerusalem who had had an infirmity (physical problem) for _____ years (vs. 5). He couldn’t walk. Jesus asked him, wilt thou be made whole? What do you think the man answered? ____. The man probably thought, ‘O good! I can walk again!’ But Jesus meant something more than that by the words be made whole. What do you think Jesus meant? ___________________________. Later, when he saw him in the temple, Jesus said Behold thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee (vs. 14). Do you think the man had to throw off the belief that a S________, evil, can cause disease? ______.

The belief that life can be in matter or soul in body, and that man springs from dust or from an egg, is the result of the mortal error which Christ, or Truth, destroys by fulfilling the spiritual law of being, in which man is p________, even as the “Father which is in heaven is perfect.” SH 485: 19-24. Maybe one mortal error that Truth destroys is the belief that a S_____ can cause disease.

Did God create matter? ______. Could God create matter? ___, because ______________.

This Bible Lesson is about Soul and Body. I know that Soul is my____________________.
I know that body is not matter, but is a man____________ of Soul.