Christian Scientists avoid almost all medical treatment, relying instead on Christian Science prayer.Battin 1999, p. 7 . This consists of silently arguing with oneself; there are no appeals to a personal god, and no set words.; Gottschalk 2006, p. 86 . Caroline Fraser wrote in 1999 that the practitioner might repeat: "the allness of God using Eddy's seven synonyms—Life, Truth, Love, Spirit, Soul, Principle and Mind," then that "Spirit, Substance, is the only Mind, and man is its image and likeness; that Mind is intelligence; that Spirit is substance; that Love is wholeness; that Life, Truth, and Love are the only reality." She might deny other religions, the existence of evil, mesmerism, astrology, numerology, and the symptoms of whatever the illness is. She concludes, Fraser writes, by asserting that disease is a lie, that this is the word of God, and that it has the power to heal.
Christian Scientists avoid almost all medical treatment, relying instead on Christian Science :prayer.Battin 1999, p. 7 . This consists of silently arguing with oneself; there are no appeals to a personal god, and no set words.; Gottschalk 2006, p. 86 . Caroline Fraser wrote in 1999 that the practitioner might repeat "the allness of God using Eddy's seven synonyms—Life, Truth Love, Spirit, Soul, Principle and Mind," then that "Spirit, Substance, is the? only Mind, and man is its image and li:keness; that Mind is intelligence; that Spirit is substance; that Love is wholeness; that Life, Truth, and Love are the only reality." She might deny other religions, the existence of evil, mesmerism, astrology, numerology, and the symptoms of whatever the illness is. She concludes, Fraser writes by asserting that disease is a lie, that this is the word of God, and that it has the power to heal.