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Christian Science - School Essays

Christian Science

is the belief that a person can be healed of
their sickness or injury through faith and prayer. Christian Scientists do
not resort to traditional medicine for treatment of illnesses, instead they
believe faith in God and the use of prayer can heal the sick. Mary Baker
Eddy founded the Church of Christ, Scientist and the Christian Science
movement in 1866 after a spiritual revelation she claimed to have had while
reading the Bible. Mary Baker Eddy, at that time, had suffered a fall that
had left her with several severe physical injuries which traditional
medicine wasn't able to treat. She claimed that through the revelation the
scriptures provided her she was able to heal herself.
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patient's direct access to God's love through the consistent operation of
God's law of health and wholeness on his behalf. It knows God, or divine
Mind, as the only healer. It brings the transforming action of Christ, the
idea of divine Love, to the patient's consciousness. A transformation or
spiritualization of a patient's thoughts changes his condition” (Science
and Health, p. 194:6).
Christian Scientists believe that sin, disease, and death does not
originate in God, who is eternal good. Death and disease are not ultimate
realities of God's creation and are to be overcome as Jesus taught and
illustrated. Christian Scientists believe that those evils result from the
belief that man is separated from God and thus that life and substance
exist only as matter, therefore limited and temporal. Instead, Christian
Scientists believe life and substance are seen as extensions of the Holy
Spirit, which is God, therefore unlimited and eternal.
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Added: 6/2/2005 01:49:52 PM
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