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Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to state that “through God we find healing”?

From the February 2015 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Q: Why do we speak of God as doing the healing, when we are taught in Christian Science that we are already perfect and whole as God’s reflection? Why would God need to heal us? Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to state that “through God we find healing”?  

A: It is certainly correct to state that through our understanding of God, divine Truth, we acknowledge God as the healer. The Bible assures us that it is God who “healeth all thy diseases” (Psalms 103:3) and “will restore health unto thee” (Jeremiah 30:17).

This healing, Christian Science explains, is the evidence of God’s dear love for His creation and is based on the understanding of God, divine Spirit, as the only creator of the universe and man. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, refers to God being made manifest in the flesh in the healing of sickness and sin (see Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 78). When we experience healing, we are witnessing God made manifest in the flesh—what God eternally knows to be the true, perfect, harmonious existence of His child is evidenced humanly. 

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