Article December 17, 1990 Issue

Spiritual healing—it really happens

A single case of spiritual healing shifts the questioning from "Can it really take place?" to "How did it happen?"

Elise L. Moore

July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Years of preparation went into that momentous occasion. Millions watched the telecast, and millions more have heard Armstrong's historic words "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

But what if you lived in a part of the world where airplanes were unknown, let alone spaceships? It might sound impossible or ridiculous if someone told you that men had flown to the white ball suspended in the sky, walked on it, and flown back. Such an event being without precedent in your experience, it would require an open thought and a willingness to relinquish traditional beliefs before you could admit such a thing to be possible.

Isn't it often the same with accounts of spiritual healing? The Bible reports that Christ Jesus healed all kinds of diseases, describing specific cases in the four Gospels. Yet these healings are sometimes discounted as miracles or relegated exclusively to the era when Jesus walked the earth. However, Christians practiced spiritual healing for about three hundred years after Jesus, and today they are again practicing it in fulfillment of their Master's promise "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."

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