Instantaneous Healing

I came across a blog by an ex-Christian Scientist whom posited that if a Christian Science practitioner can't heal instantly, then they aren't practicing the same thing Jesus practiced, then citing Jesus' and his disciples quick healing record.

And this blogger felt that if modern day Christian Science practitioners don't heal instantly they are demonstrably not practicing the same Science that Jesus practiced. 

My initial response as one having experienced healing from the treatments of Christian Science practitioners is: 1). I've had instant full healings, and 2). I've been daily treated for one month and had a complete medical-science-defying healing,  and 3). I've had ongoing treatments costing me well over a thousand dollars with zero resultant evidence of healing (though i will argue there has to be some healing going on below the visible surface, and I have not given up on eventually cracking that nut).

The successful instantaneous healings felt similar to the month-long ones: tangible mental spiritual progress which was then reflected on a body restored to normalcy. I don't feel that the Christian Science practitioners in either case were practicing a different Science per se.

Mary Baker Eddy answers this question very nicely in her "Miscellaneous Writings" on page 40:

   "It is often asked, “If Christian Science is the same method of healing that Jesus and the apostles used,why do not its students perform as instantaneous cures as did those in the first century of the Christian era?”

    In some instances the students of Christian Science equal the ancient prophets as healers. All true healing is governed by, and demonstrated on, the same Principle as theirs; namely, the action of the divine Spirit,through the power of Truth to destroy error, discord of whatever sort. The reason that the same results follow not in every case, is that the student does not in every case possess sufficiently the Christ-spirit and its power to cast out the disease. The Founder of Christian Science teaches her students that they must possess the spirit of Truth and Love, must gain the power over sin in themselves, or they cannot be instantaneous healers."


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