Article May 30, 1994 Issue

Disease? Don't coin words for it ... destroy it!

Sylvester Mouyale

When a new disease makes a noise in the world, people from a variety of social strata talk about it. Depending upon what is believed to cause it, some see it as a judgment from on high while others accept it as a matter of course. But we have the divine right to think for ourselves. We are not statistics, nor are we helpless within a societal trend. Each of us is the idea, or image, of God, and we belong to Him, not to the media's reports or to whatever seems to cause sickness.

According to Christian Science, disease is the product of false belief alone, and it has only the outlines that individual or universal consent gives to it. Under God's government, disease has no intellectual capacity, no power, no innate dangerous propensities or activity, no identity. Regardless of its corporeal "dress," disease is but a phantom or ghostly belief that claims discord can assume a name and a form and, if it is believed to be contagious, move, or be carried about, troubling those with whom it comes into contact.

In the Bible we find that the sick were sometimes considered possessed of a devil or an unclean spirit. It was perhaps such a belief that Christ Jesus dealt with in the case of the Gadarene—the man who lived among the tombs and was afflicted with many devils. The master Christian, recognizing the impotence of this mistaken belief, demanded, "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit," and it came out (Mark 5:8). The man was completely healed and joyfully praised God.

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