Enslaved by False Beliefs

        While reading the testimonies of healing at the back of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, I couldn't help but think of what the divine truths in this volume did for those desperate for relief from suffering.

        Just some of the headings on testimonies are:  Rheumatism Healed, Substance of Lungs Restored, Cataract Quickly Healed, Valvular Heart Disease Healed, Cancer And Consumption Healed, Intense Suffering Overcome, Relief From Many Ills, Diseased Eyes Cured, From Despair To Hope And Joy, Many Physical And Mental Troubles Overcome.  I could go on as there are 100 pages of such accounts, but this gives my readers who are not Christian Scientists the idea.

        In many cases, these people who were pondering what they were reading in this book were healed almost at once.  Sometimes in a few weeks, and others over months of changed thought regarding their ailments.  But complete healing always came.  What they thought was solid reality, what heredity seemed to pronounce on them, what doctors who tried to do their best said was incurable, turned out not to be so at all.  Where did all these afflictions go?  Not being God-created who made all that was made, they disappeared into the nothingness disease always is.  When one's thought is radically enlightened by Christ, Truth, false beliefs are replaced with spiritual facts.  And this sets the sufferer free.

        The woman who wrote this book says on page 226:  "I saw before me the sick, wearing out years of servitude to an unreal master in the belief that the body governed them, rather than Mind."
        "The lame, the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the sick, the sensual, the sinner, I wished to save from the slavery of their own beliefs and from the educational systems of the Pharoahs, who to-day, as of yore hold the children of Israel in bondage.  I saw before me the awful conflict, the Red Sea and the wilderness, but I pressed on through faith in God, trusting Truth, the strong deliverer, to guide me into the land of Christian Science, where fetters fall and the rights of man are fully acknowledged."

        The contention of this blog post that bodily ailments are unreal may seem to some preposterous.  But they are unreal.  And thousands upon thousands of healings in Christian Science prove it so.