Christ Jesus healed people who were very close to death—and in several instances had already crossed that boundary. There are many examples today of individuals who, faced with life-threatening situations, have overturned imminent death through the same Spiritual Science explained and practiced by Christ Jesus.
It's not unusual, in an extreme emergency, for an individual who understands God scientifically to rise to the occasion through prayer and overthrow dire predictions about his condition. He confronts the claim of death and unreservedly clings to the fact that God is his Life; that man is perfectly spiritual and can never be separated from Spirit, the source of his being.
In the practice of Christian Science healing we normally may think of challenging the possibility of death if the case appears to be one of a more serious nature, one where medical belief might forecast the demise of a patient. It could seem a little unusual to challenge the concept of death if one were bothered with a sore toe or a headache. Immorality, such as dishonesty or lust, seems an unlikely candidate for a need to refute death. And yet the belief in death may be exactly what the Christianly scientific healer is led to negate. He is guided by Christly insight, not by traditional medical assumptions, in dealing with a patient's needs.
