Christian Science healing is remarkably simple. We just need to know some basic truths to practice it: God is Spirit; God is All; and we are His image and likeness—His witnesses. There may in fact be nothing more we should need to learn or understand for healing.
But . . . is that explanation satisfying to you? Is that really all there is to it? If that is all we need to know in order to heal, you might ask, why do we have entire books about Christian Science and volumes of periodicals, such as this one, expounding on the subject? If St. Paul implored us not to be “corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ” (II Corinthians 11:3), and Jesus instructed that we need only be faithful over “a few things” (Matthew 25:21), why do we feel a need to know and read more?
Perhaps surprisingly, there is a simple answer. A sense of a material, mortal selfhood gets in our way.
