Medical care

A lot of people call me with questions about how Christian Science healing relates to medical practice, if at all.

Sometimes they've been given a very hard line from others when they've asked about it, meaning that these others have said that no medical intervention is to be tolerated at all.

I guess I don't really fall in that camp. My feeling is that while Mary Baker Eddy presented the ideal and the goal in her writings, she also clearly acknowledges the process of growth needed to achieve that ideal and goal. In other words, achieving 100% reliance on Spirit is a journey.

MBE even has occasional good things to say about using medical care. Here's one from her sermon Christian Healing:

Great caution should be exercised in the choice of physicians. If you employ a medical practitioner, be sure he is a learned man and skilful; never trust yourself in the hands of a quack. In proportion as a physician is enlightened and liberal is he equipped with Truth, and his efforts are salutary; ignorance and charlatanism are miserable medical aids. (p. 14)

Yes, she's cautioning us to find the right physician. But she's definitely not prohibiting the use of medical care Cheap Generic Viagra