Spiritual Healing is a Fact that Every Professed Christian Must Acknowledge

At no time in history have we needed spiritual healing more than we do now

THE MAJORITY OF CHRISTIANS either avoid, ignore, or flat-out reject the idea that spiritual healing is a provable, dependable and repeatable fact.

They concede it happened during biblical times.

They concede Jesus used it in his ministry.

And they concede he told us if we believed in him we could use it too.

Yet in spite of these concessions… in spite of incontrovertible proof of its eternal efficacy… the majority of modern believers run right to material means to try and fix their problems.

To the status quo, the mixing of spiritual belief with material cure is perfectly innocent and natural — but the Bible makes clear mingling spirituality with any other means of healing opposes everything Jesus stood for, and ultimately contributes to the collective carnality of contemporary culture.

As unchecked materialism, sensualism, and the escalating existential dangers of AI climb around the world, at no time in history have we needed the lost art of spiritual healing more than now.

There are three societal upsides to healing (and thinking) spiritually:

• Demonstrated 100% mentally

• Fully backed by Laws of God (thus permanent)

• Elevates/purifies consciousness

And the downsides to healing (and thinking) materially:

• Dependence on drugs/quick-fixes

• Not backed by spiritual or moral laws (nonpermanent)

• Stalls and/or reverses spiritual progress

Healing exclusively spiritually, on a mass scale, would not only transfigure the genetic makeup of the human race, it would alter the physical universe as we know it.

Let’s explore spiritual healing as the Stoics would have — with reasoning.

Would Jesus Have Taught a Method of Healing that Suddenly Stopped Working 2,000 Years Ago?

No. Spiritual healing is timeless, not time-sensitive.

A surprising number of Christians still believe Jesus demonstrated the divine power to heal only for a select number of people for a limited period of time.

This is neither logical nor factual.

The Bible makes clear the power of God is the same “yesterday, today, and forever,” and Jesus taught that all Truth is always with us when he said, “Lo, I am with you alway.” If spiritual healing took place in the 1st-century, it can — and does — take place now. Divine laws are innately immutable and we have the same conditions they had then.

Even the most skeptical theologian acknowledges Jesus healed thousands of diseases in a strictly spiritual manner:

• Paralysis (Luke 5:18)

• Leprosy (Luke 17:11)

• Deformity (Luke 13:11)

• Blindness (Matthew 9:27)

• Insanity (Mark 9:14)

• Raising Lazarus (John 11:1)

Cases are also recorded as having been healed by the disciples and followers who weren’t his personal students:

• Peter heals a lame man (Acts 3:2)

• Paul heals a cripple (Acts 16:8)

• Philip (not a student) healed insanity, paralysis, and lameness (Acts 8:6)

In Luke it’s written “The Seventy” told Jesus, “Even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.”

In 1 John it says: “And for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

And how did Jesus destroy the works of the devil? By utilizing the spiritual healing he taught to his disciples.

This shows Christian healing was effected by spiritual and not material means — teaching that we shouldn’t look to matter but to Divine Mind for true healing power.

So if the Bible shows healing spiritually is better than use of material means… and the author of this very entry has brought about numerous spiritual healings in his life… why don’t people rely on it?

Why Spiritual Healing is Missing in the Modern World

1. Society teaches such a materially-biased consciousness that most people can’t apprehend even the idea that spiritual power exists.

2. Most study Scripture from a material standpoint (i.e. shunning the spiritual creation of Genesis 1 for the material creation of Genesis 2+). Mainstream Christianity rarely addresses the overarching point of Scripture: Revealing the power of spirituality over materiality.

3. The human mind resists belief in anything different than what it’s accustomed to; it innately opposes all things spiritual or divine. Paul addressed this when he said, “The carnal mind is enmity against God.”

You ask: How can what I do in my mind lead to physical change?

The answer first requires acknowledging the material mindset forced on us at birth (i.e. flesh as the center of the universe, liberal use of drugs, treating evil as more real than good, etc).

This erring mentality — traced back to ancient Roman scholars who pushed the false “original sin” narrative — has lead to failure to understand the nature of Divine Mind and the relationship between the inner world of thought, and the outer world.

How Thoughts Alter Reality

Even the medical field understands the effect of fear, grief and anger on the body. When tears flow or hatred boils, our blood circulation is literally altered.

This confirms physical changes follow mental disturbances.

Under influence of love or hate, peace or anger, pleasure or pain, chemical changes, like in serotonin levels, occur inside the body, proving mental conditions the real cause of dis-ease.

When fear and worry cease, diseases and distressing symptoms are alleviated, and the harmonious effects of peace, happiness, and relief prevail.

Spiritual healing is logical: If you squeeze a rubber ball, it distorts the normal outline; when pressure is removed, it returns to normal. Similarly, mental discord clamps the body and puts it under a strain; replaced by harmony, the body becomes natural again.

A skeptic says: “Maybe if I had a headache I could heal it mentally… but what about terminal cancer?”

The extraordinary healings recorded in the Bible, most of which are entirely above and beyond any possible achievement of medical or surgical practice, were accomplished through mental or spiritual activity alone.

Jesus never named a disease, labeled anything terminal, or prescribed drugs or doctors; his seeing the “perfect man” God saw is what enabled him to heal the sick and sinning instantly.

Jesus appeared in the world to destroy the complicated material rules of the past; to give to mankind a simplified spirituality we could use for all time.

The Most Important Thing: TRUST

I hope the following two things are true about most Christians: they admit Scripture leaves no doubt the eternal efficacy of spiritual healing; deep down they know it could improve their life.

If both true, believers must be held back by fear of it not being effective — in other words, a lack of trust. Lack of trust spawns spiritual apathy, which spawns easy short-term fixes that only exacerbate anxiety and uncertainty.

If you believe in Jesus, you accept all things he said and did. This isn’t a buffet, where you sample everything. Jesus trusted spiritual healing alone, and he trusted us with it.

Someone might respond: “Jesus trusted in it because he was God. We’re not God, so we can’t do it with any certainty.”

Question: Would God have endowed His son with a way of healing that we, the beneficiaries, couldn’t comprehend and employ in our modern lives?

Jesus said to trust in God for everything.

Unwavering trust in the never-beginning/never-ending Divine Laws that bolster spiritual healing, sustains man under all circumstances — if it isn’t wholly true, it’s wholly false.

ONE Healing

All it takes is one. One time a person trusted and applied God’s Laws to their wellness or another’s; with the first healing realized, the floodgates open.

Dodie Osteen’s healing of cancer, for example.

Divine healing is carried out not when God “decides to show up” — God is always here; it occurs when we, the indestructible man, stand firmly in Truth.

Open Letter to Fearless Believers:

You’re needed. One person’s trust in the spiritual over the material is an act of true biblical courage and therefore backed by the Laws of God. This trust makes a permanent dent in the universe that can never regress.

And: “Whatever blesses one blesses all.”

Belief in materiality yields fear and lack; belief in spirituality yields freedom and abundance. The former leads to the false notion God is a mix of good and evil, and is far off; the latter leads to Truth that God is 100% good, and within us at all times and in all crawlspaces.

Materialism leads to idolatry. As one gradually foregoes materiality, they are rewarded with Christ identity gently filling the gaps.

If we profess to love Jesus, it’s about time we start showing it by healing the way he taught us to heal.

Caring for the environment can “make the world better.” So can being kind to others. But I’m arguing the most consequential way to make a difference is to infuse authentic biblical spirituality (i.e. not a mix of spiritual and material) into our daily routine.

The purer we are, the purer are our surroundings.

Where Do I Start?

Consider Divine Science, aka Christian Science or the Science of Christianity, a prayer-centered religion discovered by Mary Baker Eddy in the 1800’s that demonstrates how to apply the way Jesus healed to our lives.

It was the fastest growing religion in America until the 1930s, dwindled unto the 2000s, and is making its comeback, particularly with younger people seeking more spiritual solutions to problems.

The fitting part? No religion in history has a more extensive public record of healing.

“In proportion as the personal and material element stole into religion, it lost Christianity and the power to heal; the primitive privilege of Christianity was to make men better, to cast out error, and heal the sick. It was a proof, more than a profession thereof; a demonstration, more than a doctrine. It was the foundation of right thinking and right acting, and must be reestablished on its former basis.” Mary Baker Eddy