I have taught Christian Science Sunday School for many years and continue to learn from being there. Presently I teach first- and second-graders, and whenever a healing appears in the weekly Bible Lesson, I ask them, “What did Christ Jesus say to the person healed?”
Understanding man as God’s very image and likeness, Jesus was able to dismiss disease as an illusion.
For example, to the crippled man waiting at the pool of Bethesda, thinking that healing would result by his being the first into the pool when the water bubbled up, Jesus said, “Wilt thou be made whole?” When the man answered that he had no one to help him into the pool, Jesus replied, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” And the man was immediately able to walk (see John 5:2–9).
