“And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?” (Citation #3 – Luke 13:16, emphasis added).
“The calm, strong currents of true spirituality, the manifestations of which are health, purity, and self-immolation, must deepen human experience, until the beliefs of material existence are seen to be a bald imposition, and sin, disease, and death give everlasting place to the scientific demonstration of divine Spirit and to God’s spiritual, perfect man” (Citation #1 – S & H, p. 99:23-29, emphasis added).
“I know in our country, in America, very many of the physicians are uniting in the opinion that disease is an abnormal thing . . . . One of the most eminent American physicians told me that . . . he regarded disease as an abnormity, something that had fastened itself upon the race through generations as a matter of abnormal disorder, . . . . All curative endeavor, no matter who puts it forth, has no rationality unless it rests upon the supposition that the man who is trying to cure his patient has a right to try, has a right, if possible, to overthrow the disease, upon the ground that disease is an outrage, a monstrosity and an illegitimate imposition upon the world. Christian Science is teaching that Christ Jesus proceeded along the same lines. In one place the Bible says that through sin came death into the world, and that surely would mean sickness. Jesus said concerning the woman, “Satan hath bound her, lo, these eighteen years.” He did not say that God had bound her. It is a fact that Jesus, according to the record, healed all manner of diseases without failure. . . . He understood that disease was an abnormity; and he understood that it operated according to abnormal conditions and laws; and he knew that it ought to be abolished and could be abolished. . . .
Nobody knows better than a Christian Scientist does that people are suffering, that there are sinners, but we also know that it is a spurious state of existence, not ordained and not legitimate, . . . . we know that the man who sins has got to stop; we know that the man who is hateful and angry has got to stop being so; we know that the one who is sick has got to recover himself; but all the time we fix our gaze steadfastly upon the illegitimacy of the whole thing, and that is what we mean by the unreality of sin and of disease” (Lectures and Articles on Christian Science, by Edward A. Kimball, pp.324-326 & p.332, emphasis added).
Abnormity* = Irregularity; deformity
Disorder* = Irregularity in the function of the brain; derangement of the intellect or reason; confusion; tumult; disturbance or interruption of the functions; disease, sickness; neglect of rule, breach of laws
Outrage* = Injurious violence; excessive abuse; wanton mischief; a violent attack upon person or property
Monstrosity* = An unnatural production
Illegitimate* = Unlawful, contrary to law, not genuine, not authorized by good usage, unlawfully begotten
Imposition* = Constraint; oppression; burden; deception; imposture
Spurious* = Not genuine; not proceeding from the true source; counterfeit; false, not legitimate
* – All definitions from the 1828 Webster’s Dictionary.