My academic training was in physics and electrical engineering. These disciplines use logical thinking to explain cause and effect. They deal naturally with forces that are invisible and seek rational cause behind every observation, even when the observation is surprising.
So how do we rationalize the most surprising of occurrences, such as Jesus’ renewing a withered hand and walking on water (see Matt., chap. 12, and John, chap. 6)? How do we logically explain years of verified physical healing through Christian Science prayer alone? To me, it all begins with one of the main ideas presented in Christian Science: that man and the universe are in reality spiritual, and that this fact makes spiritual healing possible.
Jesus explained: “You live in terms of what you see and touch. I’m living on other terms. I told you that you were missing God in all this” (John 8:23, The Message). And Mary Baker Eddy suggested how we might focus our efforts to see more clearly man’s spirituality when she wrote, “We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives” (Science and Health, p. 248).
