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The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
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The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy ~ Full Audiobook [religion]

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April 14, 202330m 49s

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The People's Idea of God by Mary Baker Eddy audiobook.

Genre: religion

In The People's Idea of God: Its Effect on Health and Christianity, Mary Baker Eddy presents a compact, provocative sermon that asks a practical question: what happens to human life when our concept of God is shaped by fear, materialism, and limitation? Speaking to an audience wrestling with traditional theology and modern medicine, Eddy argues that a society's view of Deity quietly governs its morals, its worship, and even its expectations about sickness and healing. She challenges the notion of God as a finite personal ruler and recasts God as divine Principle - Life, Truth, and Love - urging listeners to trade sense-bound assumptions for a more spiritual understanding of existence. Moving between Scripture, moral reasoning, and pointed critique of religious custom, Eddy links spiritual reform with inner purification: baptism as transformed thought, repentance as the washing away of motives for sin, and faith as reliance on Spirit rather than matter. The result is a passionate call to reexamine first principles and to let a higher idea of God reshape how we live, pray, and seek wholeness.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

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