Article March 3, 1986 Issue

Healing today: proof of the resurrection

RONALD GRAY WALKER

Some years ago I came across a photograph of the interior of an ancient rock-hewn sepulcher in Jerusalem, traditionally reputed to be the tomb from which Christ Jesus was resurrected. I was stunned. Up to this point I had accepted Jesus' resurrection with some incredulity, as if it lay more in the realm of legend than historical fact.

Perhaps my reaction was not surprising, since at that time I regarded myself as a nominal Christian rather than a practicing one. Accepting the Scriptural accounts of Jesus on trust, my small Christian faith rested upon a tenuous belief that "if the Bible says it's true, then I guess it must be true." But I knew this was a blind faith, for I failed to see just how or why Jesus' bodily resurrection could be fully accepted as a historical fact. And even though I realized that the historical authenticity of the pictured tomb might be in some doubt, for some indefinable reason I suddenly found myself fully acquiescing to Jesus' resurrection with a deep sense of awe and wonder.

For some time I had been cherishing a deep desire to understand God. A few months after encountering the photograph of Jesus' tomb, I was introduced to Christian Science and began to study, in conjunction with the Bible, the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. With growing spiritual perception I read the New Testament as if for the first time. The Scriptural accounts came alive and began to make sense. They were beautiful, logical, practical. I found Science and Health a vital key to the Scriptures, abundantly fulfilling its author's statement "Truth has furnished the key to the kingdom, and with this key Christian Science has opened the door of the human understanding."^{Science and Health, p. 99.}

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