HUMAN experience would insist that certain factors, or a combination of a number of factors are responsible for sickness. These include heredity, inexplicable mutation of the genes, exposure to harmful material substances, age, accident, lifestyle, and even certain foods. Some have also argued that sickness is caused by God, usually as a result of punishment for sin. But does God cause sickness? The need to address this belief about God and the state of man’s health, is vitally important for two reasons. First, it is widely, if not universally agreed, that the human nature has an innate propensity to sin, and therefore it is predisposed to sin. This would imply that no human being is free from the threat of being struck by some ailment from the divine hand. Secondly, getting to the root of this belief about God, impacts significantly on the other factors which human experience indicates are the harbingers of disease.
In 1866, a woman of the Christian faith, made an interesting discovery. Mary Baker Eddy found out that, just as God does not cause man to sin, neither does He cause man to be sick. What is more, she proved incontrovertibly over a span of almost 45 years after her discovery, that, gaining an intelligent and spiritual understanding of this remarkable truth, actually brings about healing of every kind of ailment, regardless of which human factor enumerated above, seemed to have caused the disease. She spent the rest of her life healing medically diagnosed diseases such as tumours, cancers, tuberculosis, blindness, tooth decay, paralysis, and so on, most of which had been given up by the medical faculty as hopeless and incurable. Proper documentation of these duly attested healings abound in medical records in her native America, as well as in other parts of the world.
In presenting her discovery to the world, which is based on the understanding that God does not cause disease, Eddy invites the reader to reason with her thus, in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: ‘If God causes man to be sick, sickness must be good, and its opposite, health, must be evil, for all that He makes is good and will stand forever.’ She goes further in this line of reasoning ‘If the transgression of God’s law produces sickness, it is right to be sick.’ She then asks why we should attempt either with or without drugs to destroy a quality or condition of truth. Then she concludes, that God being entirely good, is neither the author of sin, nor the producer of disease. Indeed, she insists that instead of God causing sickness, He wipes it out in the most effectual manner. And this conclusion is the crux of the matter, because this is the basis of consistent and reliable spiritual healing.
Many around the world who have been diagnosed with hopeless or incurable diseases, are finding, through this system of spiritual healthcare outlined in Eddy’s book, a reversal of the diagnoses, and the incontrovertible proof, often attested by the medical faculty, albeit as inexplicable medically, but definitely a case of healing.
Regardless of where an individual may be with their state of health, recognising, acknowledging and then gradually or instantaneously gaining the spiritual understanding that God does not cause sickness, brings about a spiritual revolution that enables man to experience the kind of healing established by Christ Jesus, practiced consistently by Eddy for almost half a century, and which many continue to witness and experience in Nigeria as well as all around the world, today.
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