 Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 4:52 PM
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| I am wondering if there is a quote in the Science and Health stating something about being able to go to a doctor if others around you are concerned? I remember someone telling me of those quote but I have been out of CS for a long time and don't remember. Any ideas? A family member is is devout CS and will not go to the doctor even though we all want him to.
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Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:15 AM
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No, Science and Health states that you may consult a physician for a diagnosis only. And that it makes sense to have a broken bone set and teeth fixed. Most of Science and Health admonishes us to practice "radical reliance", because medical treatment and spiritual treatment are considered as sort of canceling each other out.
Ann
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Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 4:51 PM
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| Try doing a Manual search for the phrase, "anatomy involved."
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Posted Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:58 AM
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THere was something about being able to take morphine if the pain was so great that you couldn't think to pray... but I couldn't find it in the newer printings of S&H. I wonder if it was taken out.
The equivalent today would be prescription pain-killers, which means you'd have to see a doctor, and have him prescribe it to get any! That's just the way it would translate into our current culture. She wouldn't have approved of getting it illegally.
As for actual practice, the Mother Church was quite practical, when it came to my experience. After 9 years of prayer, the seizures I'd been having were shortened in duration, and the recovery time was as quick as 5 minutes, instead of hours. So there had been help, but the seizures hadn't discontinued. So when my son was born, and I had 2 within 3 months, and the last one was on our front stoop in the Bronx, and I woke to some stranger watching over my baby and I, I decided I had to get medical assistance, if any was to be had. I've been on various anti-seizure meds ever since. When I wrote to the Mother Church about it, they said something to the effect that I was doing the right thing. Take care of the immediate need, and keep praying for healing.
Now that may not be everyone's experience, but it was mine. And they repeated it, when 4 years later, I was diagnosed hypothyroid, and was too exhausted to care for my newborn daughter -oh I did it, but it was agony. No depression, just extreme fatigue. So I had to have a hormone replacement that was deficient in my body.
I have heard similar things from people on heart medicine, or other things. You can tell your friend that she/or he can still pray for healing, and pray for her system to respond to the medicine... and pray for the doctor to have the wisdom he needs. That way you're relying on God, on all fronts.
Last thing. My mom wouldn't go to the hospital, and my 2 brothers couldn't convince her either. Dad had gone in for bone surgery. Mom died that week. I don't think she expected that. Understand that my brothers were regulars at the same CS church with my parents.
There's nothing wrong with knowing what you're up against, so you can make wise choices for yourself. And also, if there are components you aren't ready to take on in prayer, the help can be tremendous. She can still pray about the other things in her life. God won't turn her out just because she did something temporary for her case. While I will say that doctors ease that load, I will also aver that healing from God is still the best.
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