Editorial June 15, 1974 Issue

Increasing Our Faith

Naomi Price

Faith has always had an important place in the practice of Christian healing, and it still has. But the faith associated with authentic Christian healing has deeper roots than the characteristic of the human mind which is commonly associated with faith-healing: faith that blindly trusts a person or a drug, a mortally mental system or a superstition. Any improvement that takes place through such nonintelligent faith is usually the result of the displacement of one bad mortal belief with another better mortal belief, so it is not necessarily permanent. It is not based on divine Principle, so it is subject to change or reversal at any moment through the same or another mental suggestion.

Healings that take place through Christian faith, on the other hand, are based on an understanding of spiritual Truth. They are certain to be permanent since they are dependent on bringing to light the eternal facts of real being which previously were concealed by false belief.

In the first paragraph of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy refers to the deep-rooted faith of true Christian healers and shows that it is not based on human belief but on spiritual understanding. She writes, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." Science and Health, p. 1;

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