They taught that positive thinking is the means of obtaining worldly wealth, success, social status and even health. In the final analysis it is difficult to class Christian Science as a Christian denomination. God is seen as an impersonal soul, spirit and mind. Jesus is but a human example to follow. The Holy Spirit ends up being the Christian Science church.
Humanity turns out to a unfallen spiritual beings.
Salvation is but a release from false beliefs. There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. That which he creates is good, and he makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death, is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to humans, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. Life is real, and death is the illusion.