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Science and Christian Healing.
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2 That thy way may be known upon
earth, thy saving health among all
nations.
Psalm 103:3
3 Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases;
Isaiah 30:26
26 ...in the day that the Lord
bindeth up the breach of his
people, and healeth the stroke of
their wound.
Jeremiah 30:17
17 For I will restore health unto
thee, and I will heal thee of thy
wounds, saith the Lord;...
Malachi 4:2
2 #But unto you that fear my name
shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings;...
We also find early examples in the Christian's Bible of a type of healing that would become strongly characteristic only much later, through Christ Jesus' work. In II.Kings 4, we find a narration of the prophet Elisha healing the son of a Shunamite woman, who had already died before the healing process begun.
The strongest focus on healing, naturally, resulted from Christ Jesus' works, who was clearly the most accomplished practitioner of the process of scientific metaphysical healing, though he was by no means the only one. Christian metaphysics was practiced by his disciples during his time, and by his apostles afterwards, and by many of his followers, generally, for a period of nearly a hundred years. Actually, the period of Christian healing never really ended. It continued sporadically throughout the centuries, with the brightest epoch of such healing unfolding in the late 1800s, which occurred on an essentially scientific basis.
The period of the mid 1800s in the United States of America, where the Science of the Christ was rediscovered, was also a period of other progressive developments, economically, scientifically, and culturally, which indicates that scientific Christian healing unfolds not at the bottom of the human development scale, but at the very top. It represents the pinnacle, as it were, of man's metaphysical capability. When the supporting environment for this pinnacle gets lowered below a certain threshold, the capability for healing through Christian metaphysics, disappears with the wind. This pinnacle, however, is not measured in total technological achievement, but appears to be measured in the rate of increase in understanding. Understanding is a dynamic thing. It is a thing of life that follows the dynamics of life. There is no such thing as static understanding. Static understanding is knowledge, like the knowledge that two plus two equals four. This knowledge, by itself is insufficient to built bridges, to create space-ships. Knowledge is limited. Understanding, however, is unlimited. By it, knowledge is used. It unfolds into creativity, bringing to light the infinity of being. The prophet Isaiah had a certain sense of this infinity, when he said, "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end..."*(Isaiah 9:7)
Periods of revolutionary increases in understanding are also periods of revolutionary developments in the building of nations. Thus the upwelling drive in recognition of fundamental principles has a dual manifest in the physical realm. It raises not only the physical platform of living by intelligent means, but also raises the physical platform of health in response to a higher perception of man's identity as an 'infinite' being in technological capacity and in demonstrable dominion over all limiting aspects.
In a fundamental sense, all modern forms of healing are metaphysical, resulting from the application of intelligence in processes that raise the physical platform. In fact, life itself is manifest on this planet by metaphysical processes. Medical healing is metaphysical, too, in that it employs intelligent processes to upgrade the physical environment of the human body by intervention with drugs, surgery, and electromagnetic treatments.
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