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When Mary Baker Eddy applied the principle of science to the phenomenon of Christ healing, she brought all the parameters that characterize the pursuit of science into an arena that traditionally belonged to doctrinal religion. Up to this point, religion and science were considered as fundamentally apart in their very nature, and were even treated as total opposites. To a certain degree, this view is still held. Indeed, her application of scientific investigation of the healing work of the early Christian era, turned the age old concept of religion upside down, and this in more than a merely superficial manner.
Doctrinal religions have reached an impasse. They lack the platform to allow thought the freedom of creative discoveries, even the freedom to bridge their own contradictions. The world's vast bodies of religion proclaim, collectively, the existence of a vast multiplicity of truths, each of which is claimed by its group to represent the one all-embracing God, or Truth which that group claims to understand, fully. The scientific approach stands in contrast to this approach. The scientific platform recognizes only one possible Truth, a Truth that is universally acknowledged as not yet fully understood. It is deemed to be understood only to the degree to which it becomes applicable in practical ways according to its Science.
If one compares the realm of dogmas with that of science, it becomes apparent, that in the realm of natural science, for instance, multiple concepts about a specific issue are tolerated until extensive proof has been gathered to establish a certain perception as near absolute. In the realm of dogmas, the situation is reversed. Each dogma claims to represent absolute Truth, allowing no deviation, but requiring faith for its acceptance, as proofs are largely impossible to attain.
The Science of Christ healing.
Because of this fundamental difference between scientific and religious approaches, the great efficacy of Christ Jesus' healing works stood in contrast to the emptiness of Pharisaical creeds and practices which had little practical implication. The institutionalized religions felt threatened by their inner poverty, a poverty which Christ Jesus brought to light; thus, the persecutions of Jesus begun which could not end until the man's destruction on the cross would close the case. Such it will always be. The inner emptiness of unscientific doctrine fuels violence, which is itself a symptom of emptiness within. Christ healing, however, operates on a different level. Jesus' destruction on the cross did not close the case of Christ healing. The Christ healing which he had pioneered continued to be practiced after he was put out of the way. Whatever proceeds from an underlying principle will continue to be relevant for as long as the principle is understood.
On the other hand, what the Pharisees believed, was miles off the standard by which Christ Jesus judged himself and his work. He said of himself that he came into the world to bear witness unto the truth. If the Pharisees had only 'heard' his words, they might not have tried to erase the impact of Truth by killing its messenger and demonstrator. No one can erase one iota of Truth, as the Pharisees soon experienced. Today's implication is, that if sickness is a facet of Truth, it would be equally as absurd for one to try to erase it. Likewise, it would have been absurd for Jesus to attempt such a thing. But Jesus did destroy sickness wherever he encountered it, and he did it effortlessly. This illustrates something about the nature of Truth, and the nature of sickness as not founded in absolute divine Truth. It also illustrates man's authority in this age, as in any other age, to pursue the application of Christ healing which is based on bringing to light the nature of the truth with corresponding effects in healing. The age of Christ healing has not ended, and will ever end. Only the age of mental poverty is destined to end.
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