Q How can you pray about a physical condition if you haven't had it diagnosed?
A In scientific prayer, to find out the cause of the disease, one can go deeper than just the physical condition. Say a man was so angry following an argument that he kicked his office door shut and broke his toe. A doctor might call the injury a bone fracture and treat the man for a broken toe. A Christian Science practitioner, however, might see the fracture as the visible effect of anger.
Through the treatment of prayer, the practitioner could find the cause of the injury to be the anger that drove the man to kick the door. Now imagine that the same man fell down the stairs and broke his toe that way. Again, a doctor would look at an X-ray and make a similar diagnosis as before. But a Christian Scientist might find the cause in this case to be the thought that the man is accident-prone, and that the fracture was the result of this thought.
