 Posted Wednesday, July 01, 2009 8:45 PM
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| An interesting about story about prayer and healing published recently by The Baltimore Sun (Light For All). http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/bal-to.fa.saint28jun28,0,473746.story Here we have someone who seems to have successfully combined prayer and medical science to bring about a complete healing of diagnosed terminal cancer, and the doctors don't have a rational medical explanation. Might this or might this not refute the Christian Science claim that you cannot "expect to work equally with Spirit and matter"?
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Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:44 AM
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| The link to the Baltimore Sun in my first post has expired and with it, the details of the healing. Basically, the story written by Arthur Hirsch appeared in the June 28, 2009 edition of the paper describing the case of Mary Ellen Heibel, an Annapolis, MA resident who was in treatment for terminal cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital starting in 2004 and early 2005 and somehow is now completely cured of malignant tumors in her lungs, liver, stomach and chest. Her doctor has no medical explanation. She credits the healing to prayers and the intercession of a 19th-century Maryland priest. http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/05/archdiocese-investigates-possible.html Unlike a lot of what you read in the CS periodicals, this is a real, medically documented healing that medical science cannot explain. Christian Science claims you cannot combine prayer and medicine. This is just one of countless examples that prove Mary Baker Eddy was wrong about the value of medical care used in combination with prayer.
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Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 11:21 AM
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Mere Kat:
All of this reminds me that there are still many folks out there in Christian Science that unquestionably believe that Jesus and the Bible taught that you should use only spiritual means to heal. Nothing could be further from the truth!!! Here are some examples which completely contradict this.
"A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead with no clothes. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, and he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, he too passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine… (Luke, 10; 29-37)
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: (James 5:14-15)
…."And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them."… (Mark 6:13)
…Drink no longer water,but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.[/i] (1 Timothy 5:23)
In fact, no where in the New Testament does it command that we use spiritual means only for purposes of treatment or healing, let alone that if we do rely exclusively on this means and fail, it is our own fault because of a lack of faith. That is just flat out false. Wine and oil were common medicines of the day. If their use was encouraged by the Apostles in ancient days, can there be do doubt that modern medicine is fully acceptable?
Of course, I never recall hearing any of the above in Christian Science Sunday School. Like many other things in the Bible, they were ignored, or the meanings of key words skillfully changed so that we young kids would not be confused with the facts. This is the tragedy of Christian Science, which undoubtedly has the unnecessary deaths of thousands of people on its hands.
In Christ,
John
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Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 12:46 PM
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| Amen, Brother! Thanks, John
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